Back in the beginning of the year, the posthumous Mac Miller album Circles made it out into the world. Today is the tenth anniversary of Miller’s breakthrough mixtape K.I.D.S., which featured some of his standout material from the beginning of his career. The occasion has led to another small bit of new music from Miller. […]
Dua Lipa – "Levitating" (The Blessed Madonna Remix Feat. Madonna & Missy Elliott)
Dua Lipa released Future Nostalgia, a collection of killer dance-pop songs and one of the best albums of 2020 so far, earlier this year. And last week, she announced Club Future Nostalgia, a full-length remix album created in collaboration with the Blessed Madonna, the DJ and producer formerly known as the Black Madonna. The remix […]
Hear Thurston Moore's Unplugged Cover of Galaxie 500's 'Another Day'
After announcing the 20-20-20 Galaxie 500 cover series last week, today (Aug. 13), Thurston Moore’s contribution dropped. Moore gave “Another Day,” off Galaxie 500’s 1989 sophomore LP, On Fire, the unplugged treatment. In the video of the cover, vocals and an acoustic guitar are paired with black and white images of fields and sky, as […]
Elvis Costello – “We Are All Cowards Now”
Right before the pandemic hit, Elvis Costello travelled to Helsinki and recorded several songs alone in the studio, playing every instrument by himself. We’ve already heard two songs from that solo session, “No Flag” and “Hetty O’Hara Confidential.” Today, he’s shared the third and final bulletin from “the Helsinki Sound,” a track called “We Are […]
Listen to Linkin Park's Unreleased Demo of 'She Couldn't' From 1999
Linkin Park will release a deluxe 20th-anniversary edition of Hybrid Theory on Oct. 9. The set will include demos, rarities, B-sides, DVDs and more than 90 minutes of rare video footage, along with other extras. Hybrid Theory broke the band in 2000 on the strength of singles including “One Step Closer” and “In the End” and the […]
Prince's Estate Shares Unreleased 'Witness 4 the Prosecution (Version 2)'
Prince’s estate will release a massive Sign O’ the Times box set later this year, and have been releasing a steady stream of unreleased tracks from the Purple One’s vault. While the cuts have been culled from numerous sources, today, they issued one from the Sign O’ the Times era. “Witness 4 the Prosecution (Version 2)” was recorded at […]
Alice Glass – “Nightmares”
NYC experimental electronic label Sermon 3 Recordings is celebrating its fourth birthday with Sermon 4 Anniversary, a compilation featuring the 83rd, DJ Deeon, Via App, NETER//MRTRU3LOV3, and more. It opens with a new track from Alice Glass, an intense churn of grinding digital noise that somehow sill manages to resemble a pop banger. “If this […]
Reunited Mr. Bungle Announce Their First Record In 21 Years, A Re-Recorded Version Of Their 1986 Thrash-Metal Demo
Before he joined Faith No More, Michael Patton was the singer for the Eureka, California avant-metal band Mr. Bungle. Patton kept Mr. Bungle going even after he’d found stardom with Faith No More, releasing some of the weirdest major-label music of the ’90s. Mr. Bungle broke up in the early ’00s, but they came back […]
Mr Bungle Announce First Album in Over Two Decades | SPIN
Mr. Bungle are back. Mike Patton and friends announced The Raging Wrath of the Easter Bunny Demo, which will be released on Oct. 30. It’s the band’s first album since 1999. The group also shared a new single, the thrash-inspired “Raping Your Mind,” featuring rapid-fire guitar solos that Beavis and Butt-head would love. The current band […]
Svalbard – “Listen To Someone”
The Bristol band Svalbard make a towering, beautiful, pummeling sound that doesn’t really fit into any particular genre. They pull from hardcore, from shoegaze, from post-rock, and from black metal, and they transform all of it into a majestic, cathartic blur. Next month, the band is coming back with a new album called When I […]