Detroit producer Black Noi$e has signed to Earl Sweatshirt’s Tan Cressida imprint for his upcoming project Oblivion, making it the label’s first non-Earl Sweatshirt release ever. In a statement, Earl says: WE AT TAN CRESSIDA ARE BEYOND EXCITED TO ANNOUNCE OUR FIRST NON-SWEATSHIRT RELEASE EVER!!! BLACK NOI$E PRESENTS THE APTLY TITLED OBLIVION TO A RESTLESS […]
The Notwist – "Ship" (Feat. Saya)
German computer-pop greats the Notwist haven’t released new music since their Sub Pop-abetted 2014 comeback album Close To The Glass. But they’ll drop a new EP called Ship in August via Morr Music — billed as the precursor to a new LP — and today we’re hearing its title track. “Ship” is a pulsing, heavily […]
Iggy Pop Urges Soccer Fans to Invest in Detroit Team
Michigan native Iggy Pop recruits soccer fans to support Detroit City FC in a new ad promoting the team’s crowdfunding equity campaign. “You’ve been saying ‘we’ for years,” the Stooges singer intones in the clip. “‘We are the pride of this city.’ ‘We don’t march to anyone’s drum but our own.’ ‘We are City ’til we die.’ Now […]
Hear The Stooges' "Fun House" From Unearthed Last Concert With Original Lineup
The Stooges’ original lineup played its final show on August 8, 1970 at the Goose Lake International Music Festival in Leoni Township, Michigan, an hour outside their native Detroit. As the legend goes, bassist Dave Alexander freaked out in front of the 200,000-strong audience and did not play a note on stage that night, which […]
Robert Plant – “Charlie Patton Highway (Turn it Up, Pt. 1)”
Robert Plant has announced a new career-spanning anthology called Digging Deep: Subterranean to celebrate the third season of his Digging Deep With Robert Plant podcast. The two-disc, 30-track set will feature three unreleased tracks including “Charlie Patton Highway (Turn It Up, Pt. 1),” which will also appear on Plant’s upcoming album Band Of Joy Volume […]
Former Operation Ivy Frontman Jesse Michaels' Band Classics Of Love Releases 'World Of Burning Hate' EP: Stream
Operation Ivy broke up in 1989, but the Berkeley ska-punk band’s influence lingered long after that. When I was in high school, copies of Op Ivy’s one album were basically issued to every teenager who showed the slightest interest in punk rock. After Op Ivy broke up, guitarist Tim Armstrong and bassist Matt Freeman went […]
Porno For Pyros Play 'Pets' and 'Kimberly Austin'
When Lollapalooza moved its festival from Grant Park in Chicago to everyone’s computer screens due to the pandemic, the longtime music fest also promised the return of Porno For Pyros. And last night (July 31), the original members — Perry Farrell, Stephen Perkins and Peter DiStefano with Mike Watt (a member of PFP in 1996-1997) — […]
Black King Savior Comments On Social Injustice On New Track ‘Going Crazy’
Black King Savior released a new number ‘Going Crazy’ – a tribute to the Black Lives Matter movement and all victims of social injustice. On his new track, Black King Savior describes the cultural forces that shape us. He openly criticizes our politically and socially challenging state, he is ready to protest and walk the […]
Watch The Makaya McCraven Documentary & Stream His New Album 'Universal Beings E&F Sides'
Chicago drummer, producer, and all-around musical genius Makaya McCraven has been widely heralded as one of the leading lights in jazz today. Universal Beings, the 2018 album that cemented that reputation, is the subject of a new mini-documentary out today, and McCraven has shared a companion album of leftover material from the same sessions. McCraven […]
Hidden Mothers – “Beneath, To The Earth”
The Sheffield band Hidden Mothers have a grand, clangorous sound. It’s somewhere between black metal and post-hardcore, and it also draws from shoegaze and goth and screamo. If you’re into the bands who exist at those different intersection points — Deafheaven, Envy, Infant Island, Svalbard — then Hidden Mothers offer a whole lot to like. […]