G-Eazy’s caught in the middle of a “Breakdown” in the video to his new single featuring Demi Lovato. From their separation between the walls of their apartments to underneath a bridge in the rain, Gerald soul searches and battles his his inner-demons, while Demi belts her uplifting hook. “Breakdown” follows “The Announcement“, and are both […]
Makaya McCraven – “Autumn In New York (AKA Spring in Chicago)”
Makaya McCraven’s new remix album Deciphering The Message finds the Chicago drummer and producer putting his spin on jazz classics from the Blue Note catalog. The album features McCraven’s interpretations of songs by the likes of Art Blakey, Dexter Gordon, and Kenny Dorham, finding the common ground between the past and his own hip-hop-adjacent present. […]
Stream Amygdala & Listless’ Great New Split LP
I have been waiting for this shit. From where I’m sitting, the San Antonio band Amygdala is one of the greatest punk bands in the world right now. Amygdala’s sound draws on screamo, crust, sludge metal, and a whole lot of other stuff, and it uses all those ingredients to make the most epically angry […]
Private Hell – “M.M.M.”
Last year, the Richmond band Ghouli came out with Nothing, a great EP of raw, spooky hardcore punk. Ghouli guitarist Mikey Kent is the host of Toxic Schlock, a great horror-movie podcast that’s on a bit of a hiatus now; I was on there earlier this year, talking about Scream. And now Kent also has […]
Stream Supine’s Feverish, Intense Debut Album No Altar For The Company Man
The city of Philadelphia has a long, proud history of dark, tangled, atmospheric hardcore. It’s the hometown of Ink & Dagger and Blacklisted and Soul Glo. Philly also has Drowse, who came out with the hard-as-fuck Dance In The Decay last year. I don’t know whether Philly’s Supine see themselves as being part of that […]
Open Mike Eagle – “Burner Account” (Feat. Armand Hammer)
Last year, the great underground rap veteran Open Mike Eagle released his album Anime, Trauma And Divorce, which was a whole lot more entertaining than anyone could ever expect from a record about the end of a marriage. Since then, Eagle has remained busy. He eulogized MF DOOM through rap, he teamed up with the […]
Stream LURK’s Hard-Rockin’ Debut Album Around The Sun
The members of the Chicago band LURK come from their city’s hardcore scene, but they aren’t really a hardcore band. Frontman Kevin Kiley said that the band was shooting for a particular sound when they formed — “Ramones meets Devo meets B-52’s meets the Cramps” — but they don’t really sound like that, either. Instead, […]
Hear “God Only Knows” From Brian Wilson’s New Album Of Solo Piano Beach Boys Hits
We generally don’t think of Brian Wilson as the kind of artist who would record a stripped-down solo-piano album. At his peak, the former Beach Boys sonic mastermind was famous for complex orchestrations and layered vocal harmonies so ambitious that the rest of Wilson’s band rebelled against him. But later this fall, Wilson will release […]
Bartees Strange – “Lady Luck” (Richard Swift Cover)
To celebrate Secretly Canadian’s 25th anniversary this year, the label is reissuing 12 old albums in a series called SC25 Editions and releasing 25 new covers in a series called SC25 Singles; the net proceeds from the whole campaign will go towards raising $250,000 for the Bloomington, Indiana charity New Hope For Families. Up next […]
Lady Gaga & Tony Bennett – “Love For Sale”
Next month, 95-year-old crooner Tony Bennett and 35-year-old crooner Lady Gaga will release their new album Love For Sale, a salute to the Cole Porter songbook. This is Gaga and Bennett’s second collaborative LP, and given that Bennett is suffering from Alzheimer’s and retired from performing live, you have to imagine that it’ll be the […]