Less than a week away from the presidential election, Bon Iver’s “A Campaign to Make Your Vote Count” initiative has enlisted Arcade Fire to urge folks to get to the polls next Tuesday “Get out there and vote, it’s never been more important,” singer Win Butler urged ahead of a performance of “Culture War,” a bonus […]
Billie Eilish Is Not Well Liked by the Trump White House
Billie Eilish debuted her song “my future” at the 2020 Democratic National Convention, so it’s no surprise that when the Trump administration was looking for celebrity support, a report unearthed by The Washington Post described the young singer as “not a Trump Supporter” and “destroying our country and everything we care about.” The Post noted that “Trump’s […]
Indigo Sparke – “Baby” (Prod. Adrianne Lenker)
Adrianne Lenker has been busy. The Big Thief frontwoman just released not one but two quarantine albums, and she’s also co-producing the debut album from Australian singer-songwriter Indigo Sparke. Sparke met Lenker opening for Big Thief on their Australian tour, and they produced her upcoming LP Echo together alongside Big Thief’s regular producer Andrew Sarlo. […]
Massive Attack Address Touring's Carbon Footprint in New Film
“As a touring band, we’ve always been aware of the damage our industry and its behavior has done to our environment,” says Robert ‘3D’ Del Naja of Massive Attack at the start of the new, eight-minute documentary, Massive Attack X Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research. To address concert tours’ carbon footprint, Massive Attack commissioned […]
H.E.R. “Damage” On Jimmy Kimmel Live! | Rap Radar
Coming off her SNL performance last weekend, H.E.R. brought the music to Jimmy Kimmel Live! as the guest performer on Tuesday (Oct. 27). In the midst of shimmering red and blue lights, the singer gave another live performances of her standout single “Damage” alongside her trusty band.
Stream RU$H, Tha God Fahim, & Jay Nice’s An Album Called Classic
Right now, the Delaware rappers RU$H and Jay Nice have been on a crazy run. Both rappers work in the Roc Marciano mold — elaborate and impeccably worded good-life boasts, delivered in rugged monotones over lush and psychedelic beats. A few months ago, RU$H and Jay Nice released Fly Art, an EP that featured collaborations […]
'Magic Oneohtrix Point Never' Is a Surrealist FM Broadcast for the Alt-Pop Age
For more than 50 years, electronic music has unofficially signified the future. It was an Italian futurist, Luigi Russolo, who first conceived of noise music and proto-industrial music-making during the 1910s. Decades later, the robot-pop visionaries of Kraftwerk beamed themselves into the future on an album celebrating the dawn of the computer world. In 1982, […]
Danny Elfman Shares First Solo Music In 36 Years, A Creepy Song He Wrote For Coachella
Iconic film composer and former Oingo Boingo leader Danny Elfman was supposed to play a special career-spanning set at Coachella this year. Obviously, that didn’t happen. But today, Elfman has announced that he’s signed to ANTI-/Epitaph to release his first solo music in 36 years, a creepy new single called “Happy,” which he wrote for […]
Danny Elfman Releases His First Single in 36 Years
Known for being the voice of Nightmare Before Christmas’ Jack Skellington and the Corpse Bride’s Bonejangles, it only makes sense that composer Danny Elfman’s first release in 36 years, “Happy,” would drop only days before Halloween. “I always enjoyed Halloween because it was a night to let loose, to become something or someone else,” Elfman […]
Watch The Kills Cover 'I Put a Spell on You'
The Kills are getting in the Halloween, calling on the ghosts of the past by sharing Screamin’ Jay Hawkins’ “I Put a Spell on You.” Recorded in 2009, Alison Mosshart brings in dark soulful vocals over Jamie Hince’s fuzzy guitar. The track comes with a self-produced visual that’s comprised of live footage from shows in […]