Ghost Train Orchestra and Kronos Quartet have arranged a Moondog tribute album, Songs And Symphoniques: The Music Of Moondog, which will be released on September 29. “The first Moondog record I heard was the 1969 orchestra record simply titled Moondog,” Ghost Train Orchestra’s Brian Carpenter said in a statement. “Its cover featured a very striking […]
Mac Krol (Mike Krol & Mac McCaughan) – “For Some Other Reason”
Mike Krol and Mac McCaughan have teamed up for a new project called Mac Krol, and they’re releasing a 7-inch featuring three songs that they worked on together next month via Merge. The songs have a long history: Krol started them back in 2015 when he was recording Turkey with his band but soon discarded […]
Kelsea Ballerini Hit In The Eye With Friendship Bracelet Onstage In Boise
The plague of throwing weird shit onstage at concerts continues. A few months ago, country superstar Kane Brown got nailed in the nuts with a thrown cowboy boot while performing in Wichita. Then there was Bebe Rexha taking a phone to the eye in New York, and people tossing their dead mother’s ashes and a […]
Rap Radar Podcast: Steven Victor
Big Business. Photos: Nickie Rose Steven Victor is a business, man. Literally. Recently, his management firm Victor Victor Worldwide added reigning boxing champion Gervonta Davis. With a roster that includes, Pusha T, The-Dream, and the late Pop Smoke, Victor is also set to open a restaurant with a client and designer, Nigo. Here, the Brooklyn […]
Anjimile – “Father”
In September, Anjimile will release his first full-length since 2020’s Giver Taker. The indie-folk performer has already shared the lead single and title track from The King, and today he’s following that up with “Father” featuring guitar by Brad Allen William. “I wrote this song with my parents in mind as a sort of gesture […]
Michigan Turns 20
The Sufjan Stevens catalog has no shortage of mind-bendingly proggy moments, many of them on the 2010 album The Age Of Adz, one of the most formidable works of auteurist excess of the 21st century. Yet my favorite of all of them comes during “Oh Detroit, Lift Up Your Weary Head! (Rebuild! Restore! Reconsider!),” one […]
Video: Wiz Khalifa “Swole Life”
Fuck you pay me! Wiz Khalifa is straight flexing in his new music video, “Swole Life”. With Braden Walker back behind the lens, Wiz raps his extensive jewelry and women while partying with friends outside and in the studio. “Steph Curry, shoot a shot, I don’t never miss / Girl, you got an ass like […]
Grian Chatten – “All Of The People”
Grian Chatten, the lead singer for Fontaines D.C., is releasing his solo debut album Chaos For The Fly on the last day of June. We’ve already covered singles “The Score,” “Fairlies” (which he played for his solo TV debut on Later… With Jools Holland), and “Last Time Every Time Forever.” Today, we’re getting one more […]
Casanova Sentenced To More Than 15 Years In Prison
Brooklyn rapper Casanova, born Caswell Senior, has been sentenced to 188 months in prison on gang-related racketeering and narcotics charges. According to a press release from the US Department of Justice, Casanova had a leadership role in the Untouchable Gorilla Stone Nation Bloods Gang, or Gorilla Stone for short. This led to his involvement in […]
Video: REASON “You Betta (Jesus Take The Wheel)”
Little bitch, you better. REASON gets some weight off his shoulders and turns up on his new single, “You Better (Jesus Take The Wheel)”. Produced by Devni Malik , the Carson, CA rhymer relieves the endless stress with some nasty thoughts. “I can get that pussy with a card / Love me some something chocolate, […]