The trailer for the upcoming second season of The Umbrella Academy, Netflix’s offbeat superhero show based on the comic book series written by My Chemical Romance’s Gerard Way, dropped today. And as it happens, the trailer features a brand new solo song from Way himself, inspired by the Rolling Stones and early-’90s Primal Scream and […]
Travis – "Valentine"
Last month, Travis announced a new album, 10 Songs, their first since 2016’s Everything At Once. Its lead single, “A Ghost,” was pretty good, and today the Scottish rockers are back with another one called “Valentine,” a full-sounding track punctuated by some spindly guitars and a lot of pent-up energy. “If I lie here/ I […]
Boldy James & The Alchemist – “Pots And Pans” (Feat. The Cool Kids & Shorty K)
There’s at least some chance that Freddie Gibbs and the Alchemist’s Alfredo, while excellent, isn’t the best Alchemist-produced rap album to come out in 2020. A few months before Alfredo, the Alchemist teamed up with the hardbitten Detroit rapper Boldy James, a longtime collaborator, and released a tense and entrancing LP of seen-it-all drug-rap called […]
James Blake Worked With Songwriters For Camila Cabello, Maroon 5, & Kelly Clarkson On This New Song Of His
James Blake continues to straddle the worlds of electronic pop and experimental electronics. His 2020 singles so far illustrate that balance: Whereas Blake wrote April’s “You’re Too Precious” with Mount Kimbie’s Dominic Maker, his close collaborator on last year’s Assume Form, he crafted his next offering with a pair of industry songwriters whose previous collabs […]
Silversun Pickups – “Toy Soldiers” (Martika Cover)
Silversun Pickups released their fifth studio album, Widow’s Weeds, a little over a year ago. Today, the Los Angeles rockers are back with a cover of Martika’s 1989 hit “Toy Soldiers,” recorded in January and produced by Butch Vig. “We were thinking about songs from the ’80s that we loved growing up, that had a […]
Chrissie Hynde Blasts Police for Racial Profiling
After witnessing the arrest of two innocent Black athletes over the weekend, Chrissie Hynde is calling out the London police for racial profiling and not focusing on a more troubling issue in her neighborhood — gang activity. Bianca Williams and her partner, Ricardo dos Santos, were the two individuals Hynde was referring to. The couple, […]
Rock N Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony Canceled Due to COVID-19
The Rock N Roll Hall of Fame was going to induct Nine Inch Nails, Depeche Mode, Notorious B.I.G., Whitney Houston, T. Rex, and the Doobie Brothers as part of this year’s class at a ceremony in May. Now, it’s not happening at all. After originally pushing the ceremony to November, the Rock Hall has canceled […]
Mint Field – “Contingencia”
Formed in Tijuana and currently based in Mexico City, Mint Field specialize in sweltering, languorous psychedelic rock. Led by singer-guitarist named Estrella del Sol (which translates to Star of the Sun), they make hallucinatory mood music for oppressive heat, a soundtrack for days when a bleary melancholy spreads out over everything and even sundown doesn’t […]
Kate Bollinger – "Grey Skies"
Kate Bollinger is a musician based out of Charlottesville, VA who has a handful of songs to her name so far, including last year’s I Don’t Wanna Lose EP. She makes languid, indistinct pop songs that would fit in nicely alongside Men I Trust or early TOPS. Today, she’s sharing a new song from her […]
Bully – “Every Tradition”
Last month, Bully — the Nashville-based project led by Alicia Bognanno — announced a new album, SUGAREGG, the follow-up to 2018’s Losing. We’ve heard lead single “Where To Start” from it already. Today, we’re getting the album’s second single, “Every Tradition,” which is fuzzy and fierce and defiant, as Bognanno runs through every tradition she […]