I’ve enjoyed Raavi Sita’s releases as Raavi over the past few years. “Lazy Susan,” “Chorus Girl,” and “No Bodies” were all winners, and so is today’s new song “About It.” The track pares back the driving melodic indie rock structures around Sita, leaving her voice backed by little more than acoustic arpeggios and some dreamy keyboard sounds. “We’re so good at talking about it,” she sings, matter-of-factly, “but what are we going to do about it?” Listen below.
For decades, the eclectic California ska-punk band Fishbone has operated as a model of sustainability. Musicians have come and gone from Fishbone’s lineup, but the band’s creative core — singer Angelo Moore and bassist Norwood Fisher — has remained consistent since the band started in 1979. Now, that creative core has broken down. Norwood Fisher, […]
This Friday, Kamasi Washington is releasing a new album called Fearless Movement, the first full-length of his own since 2018’s Heaven And Earth. We’ve heard the album’s closing track “Prologue” and the André 3000 collaboration “Dream State” from it so far, and today Washington is sharing one last single. “Get Lit” features George Clinton and […]
Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200, breaking streaming and vinyl sale records. As Billboard reports, the album — which was quickly expanded into a 31-song deluxe edition just hours after its initial release — notched 2.61 million equivalent album units in the US, with traditional album sales making […]
