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 […]
Illuminati Hotties Announce New Mixtape 'Free I.H.': Read Our Interview & Hear The Scathing Lead Single
At any point during 2018 or 2019, do you remember thinking, man, it doesn’t get any better than this? “It feels weird to be nostalgic for anything that happened post-2016,” Sarah Tudzin jokes, but even if every year is indeed “the worst one ever, until the next one,” at least the slow-burn success of Illuminati […]
100 Gecs – “hand crushed by a mallet (remix)” (Feat. Fall Out Boy, Craig Owens, & Nicole Dollanganger)
Extremely online weirdo-pop duo 100 gecs broke out in a big way last year with their debut LP 1000 gecs, one of the best albums of 2019. And now they’re taking a well-deserved victory lap with the release of the long-teased 1000 gecs remix album 1000 gecs & The Tree Of Clues. We’ve gotten a […]
Alanis Morissette's Dark New Single 'Reckoning' Takes on 'Predators and Prey'
Alanis Morissette’s new single, “Reckoning,” has a darker message than anything that’s been released from Such Pretty Forks in the Road so far. The tune confronts “predators and prey” and has an overall dark vibe that’s accentuated by a string section. Recently, Morissette and the cast of Jagged Little Pill shared an at-home video for “Smiling.” She has also […]
The Flaming Lips Go Back Into Their Bubbles in 'Dinosaurs on the Mountain' Video
A few weeks ago, the Flaming Lips performed in their trademark bubbles during a taped performance for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. The group head back into the bubbles for their new video for “Dinosaurs on the Mountain,” the third single to come from American Head. In the video, which was directed by singer Wayne Coyne […]
YG – "Swag"
The last thing we heard from YG was the fuck-the-police protest song “FTP,” a sequel to his 2016 anti-Trump anthem “FDT.” And now he’s back with another new track, “Swag,” the latest single from his upcoming album Laugh Now Kry Later following “FTP,” “Konklusions,” and the title track. While the cover artwork and the ARRAD-directed […]
The Flaming Lips – “Dinosaurs On The Mountain”
Last month, the Flaming Lips appeared as musical guests on Colbert, and they had a pretty slick way of doing it. The Lips played their classic 1999 song “Race For The Prize” in front of an actual audience — something made possible because both the band members and the people in the crowd were in […]
Stream Gillian Welch & David Rawlings' New Covers Album 'All The Good Times'
Gillian Welch and David Rawlings have released a new covers album today called All The Good Times. The musical partners recorded it at home on a reel-to-reel tape recorder and it includes covers of tracks by Bob Dylan, John Prine, Elizabeth Cotten, Norman Blake, Arlie Duff, and more. They did their own arrangements of the […]
Massive Attack Release Politically-Minded New EP 'Eutopia', Featuring Algiers, Saul Williams, & Young Fathers: Stream
This morning, long-reigning trip-hop pioneers Massive Attack released a new three-song EP called Eutopia, which the group explicitly conceptualized as a political piece of work about the immediate necessity of global systemic change. The music here is intended to be a vehicle for certain messages, and it’s impossible to strip the sounds away from the […]