There’s no right way to get a record deal. For Bhad Bhabie (AKA Danielle Bregoli), a viral moment on Dr. Phil was all it took to open the day. To her credit, however, she took the opportunity and ran with it. The 17-year-old became the youngest female rapper to chart on the Billboard Hot 100 […]
Ava Max Drops Festive Bop “Christmas Without You”
Ava Max’s ‘Naked’ Video Ava Max is having a very good 2020 thanks to the global success of “Kings & Queens” (one of the true sleeper hits of the year) and the impressive chart performance of her debut LP, Heaven & Hell. Never one to rest on her laurels, the breakout pop star is back […]
Chris Farren – "FALL IN LOVE2NIGHT"
Chris Farren is back with a new track, “FALL IN LOVE2NIGHT,” a little over a year after releasing his last album Born Hot. It’s a song that twinkles away in the verses and amps up in the chorus, with Farren asking: “What if we could fall in love tonight? Dream away the nightmares? Fall in […]
Inhaler Drops Topical Single 'When It Breaks'
Irish quartet Inhaler dropped the single, “When It Breaks,” an anthem recorded over the summer with lyrical themes addressing the unease and disquiet of 2020. “The lyrics and the music communicate the anxiousness of how we were all feeling and still are now a couple months later. It’s our interpretation of this strange and imperfect […]
Parquet Courts' Max Savage Announces New Maxband EP: Hear "Cut It Loose"
When Max Savage isn’t drumming for Parquet Courts, he leads a similarly minded New York rock band called Maxband alongside A Beacon School’s Patrick Smith. They’re about to follow up their 2018 debut album Perfect Strangers with an EP called Top Of The Stairs. Lead single “Cut It Loose” is an exceedingly pretty post-punk track […]
Julie Byrne & Jefre Cantu-Ledesma – "Love's Refrain"
“Love’s Refrain” is a beguiling instrumental by Jefre Cantu-Ledesma that came out back in 2016 and was included on the experimental composer’s 2016 tape In Summer. Julie Byrne, the singer-songwriter who is taking her sweet time following up 2017’s magnificent Not Even Happiness, has always been enamored with the track, so she chose to add […]
Justin Vernon Plays New Big Red Machine Song in Latest 'Visit With Vernon'
Bon Iver frontman Justin Vernon launched his “Visit With Vernon” voting initiative with his Eaux Claires last month to “talk thoughtfully about why voting matters” and in the second installment, where he sat with two new Milwaukee voters, he performed a new Big Red Machine song titled “Latterdays.” The singer-songwriter says the tune is “about […]
Hear Wilco's Previously Unreleased "Candyfloss" Demo
Remember the 1990s, when every CD seemed to have a secret song tacked onto the end? In the case of Wilco’s 1999 stunner Summerteeth, that song was a buoyant power-pop song called “Candyfloss.” The band is releasing a deluxe reissue of Summerteeth next month, and one of the previously unreleased tracks is Jeff Tweedy’s “Candyfloss” […]
Nine Inch Nails, The Killers, Dua Lipa to Feature on Netflix's 'Song Exploder'
The Killers, Nine Inch Nails, Dua Lipa and Natalia Lafourcade are the artists tapped to take dives into specific, career-changing hits on Volume 2 of Netflix’s Song Exploder. The new season will premiere globally on Dec. 15, 2020. Trent Reznor will discuss his iconic Nine Inch Nails song “Hurt,” which has been famously covered by […]
Guided By Voices Share The Lead Single From Their Third Album Of 2020
Here’s some news that will not surprise you if you know anything about Robert Pollard: Guided By Voices are prepping their third album of 2020 for release in December. The upcoming Styles We Paid For joins the previously released Surrender Your Poppy Field and Mirrored Aztec to complete GBV’s 2020 triad. “Mr. Child,” a character […]