Back to back. R.A. The Rugged Man is all charged up in the music video to his recent album, All My Heroes Are Dead. In the time-traveling clip, the Long Island wordsmith jumps in and out of various periodic experiments from Victorian-era serial killers to virtual reality to Neanderthals.
Album Review: Taylor Swift’s ‘folklore’
Review: Jessie’s ‘What’s Your Pleasure?’ Taylor Swift has already won Album Of The Year Grammys for both country and pop offerings. (Fearless and 1989, respectively). She could feasibly take home a third with folklore. Which is excitingly difficult to horn into any particular genre. There are country and pop elements in the mix, but also […]
Foxes Switches It Up With Stripped-Back “Woman”
Foxes’ ‘Love Not Loving You’ The return of Foxes is one of the few good things to happen in 2020. In May, the UK pop star returned with a bouncy bop called “Love Not Loving You” — her first new single in four years. She now follows it up with “Woman,” which is a stripped-back […]
Davey Havok and Jade Puget Prep New Blaqk Audio Album
In proper 2020 fashion, Davey Havok And Jade Puget decided to release their next Blaqk Audio album only one part at a time. With its five-track Side A dropping Tuesday, the AFI members announced this week that they’ll share Beneath The Black Palms in its entirety on August 21. Their bouncy and eccentric “Hiss,” released yesterday, has […]
Maluma Introduces 5th Album With “Hawái”
Madonna & Maluma’s ‘Bitch I’m Loca’ You’ve got to hand it to Maluma. With a global pandemic raging, he still managed to record a summer smash and film a blockbuster video that has more drama (and outrageous flashbacks) than any telenovela. Oh, and he also completed his fifth album. The Colombian heartthrob’s new single is […]
Hear King Buzzo's Sinister New Song 'Delayed Clarity'
Buzz Osborne has unleashed the final preview of his upcoming second album, Gift of Sacrifice. The pioneering Melvins frontman, recording under the name King Buzzo, released the experimental “Delayed Clarity” on Wednesday. The sinister track, which follows album cuts “I’m Glad I Could Help Out” and “Science In Modern America,” unfolds with strummed acoustic guitars, brooding vocals, and scraping strings. Gift […]
J $pice Delivers In-Your-Face Pure Energy On His Latest Track Named “Stop It”
Rising star and the new voice of Inglewood, J $pice dropped a brand new track named “Stop It.” On his new single, the Cali rapper pays tribute to his second (after music obviously) love – fashion. J $pice confronts those who are styleless, act, and can’t keep it real like he does. On “Stop It,” […]
New Video: Shorline Mafia Ft. Wiz Khalifa “How We Do It” | Rap Radar
Got to get your groove on. Shoreline Mafia does it like nobody does in their music video co-starring Wiz Khalifa. Filled with skateboarding and low riders, Fenix Flexin links with Wiz Khalifa at downtown L.A.’s skate warehouse The Berrics where they coast to the Montell Jordan flip for a tricked out exhibition of on the […]
New Video: Chaz French “What A Day” | Rap Radar
Buy Black. It’s just a typical day around Chaze French’s way in the matching visuals to his latest single. On a hot summer day in Washington D.C., Chaz rides his bicycle through Chocolate City and hits up a few black-owned businesses. He visits community activist and author Tony Lewis, Jr. to pick up his book […]
New Video: THEY. Ft. Tinashe “Play Fight” | Rap Radar
Shut it down. A little flirting don’t hurt nobody in THEY.’s new music video featuring Tinashe. On the infectious nostalgic tune, the L.A.-based R&B duo Dante Jones and Andrew “Drew Love” Neely hit up an arcade with Tinashe, where the trio go a few friendly rounds of tender, love, and care. Game over. THEY.’s, The […]