TGIF. Flipp Dinero is forever rich, but today, he’s richer than ever on his new release. Over a bouncy instrumental, Flipp flexes his racks, his high-end designer and swag.
Stream SpiritWorld’s Apocalyptic Debut Album Pagan Rhythms
This is a very, very good day for heavy music. We’ve already posted the ass-stomping new albums from Sharptooth and Skeleton, and now the Las Vegas outfit SpiritWorld have come out with their full-length debut Pagan Rhythms, a blistering piece of pure evil. SpiritWorld is really just one person, the Vegas doomsayer Stu Folsom, though […]
Skeleton Release Grimy Self-Titled Metal-Punk Debut: Stream
The state of Texas has a long and proud tradition of punk bands playing metal; Power Trip, from Dallas, might be the current kings of that kind of crossover. Today, the Austin power trio Skeleton take their place in that lineage. Skeleton have been around for a few years, and they released an EP called […]
Into It. Over It. – "Living Up To Let You Down"
Evan Thomas Weiss will return this fall with his first new Into It. Over It. album in four years. The Chicago emo mainstay has not been entirely quiet lately, releasing music with projects like Pet Symmetry, but the upcoming Figures will be his main project’s first proper LP since 2016’s Standards. It’s introduced today with […]
Nick Cave Celebrates Nina Simone in Latest Essay | SPIN
While Nick Cave has admitted that he’ll likely not be coming out with protest or politically-driven music anytime soon, that doesn’t mean he won’t celebrate who does. In his latest entry for The Red Hand Files, Cave celebrates Nina Simone and her live recording of “My Sweet Lord.” Originally by George Harrison, the track was […]
Stream Sharptooth’s Hard-As-Hell New Album Transitional Forms
You’re not a feminist JUST BECAUSE YOU FUCKED ONE!” That’s Lauren Kashan, singer of the Baltimore band Sharptooth, a few songs into her band’s new album Transitional Forms. That’s Sharptooth in a nutshell: Smart and passionate and angry and unsparing. Sharptooth’s sound is a concussive big-room form of metallic hardcore, and it absolutely never lets […]
Bettye LaVette – “One More Song”
Bettye LaVette was supposed to be inducted into the Blues Music Hall Of Fame this year. And although the induction ceremony has been postponed until next spring, the 74-year-old soul singer is still celebrating the blues tradition in her own way, with the release of her new album Blackbirds. On Blackbirds, LaVette reimagines songs recorded […]
Pallbearer – “Forgotten Days”
It’s been three years since Pallbearer, Arkansan gods of psychedelic doom metal, released Heartless, their masterful third album. Pallbearer have been relatively quiet recently, though they released the one-off single “Atlantis” last year. Today, Pallbearer announce their grand returns. This fall, they’ll come out with the new album Forgotten Days. Today, they drop the title […]
Black Thought – "Thought Vs. Everybody"
It’s been six long years since the Roots released their last album, …And Then You Shoot Your Cousin. Since then, there’s been plenty of talk of a new collection, and they’ve been plenty busy as the house band for Jimmy Fallon. But along the way, Black Thought started released solo work, too. Back in 2018, […]
KAYTRANADA – “Look Easy” (Feat. Lucky Daye)
The great Haitian-Canadian dance producer Kaytranada released his great sophomore LP BUBBA at the end of last year. A couple months ago, he shared a music video for album track “Need It.” And it seems he has a whole lot more on the way. “There’s just so many tracks that just didn’t make [BUBBA],” Kaytranada […]