It’s been doom and gloom for the concert (and basically, music) biz since the COVID-19 pandemic shut everything down. However, Live Nation CEO Michael Rapino sees light at the end of the tunnel. Despite a cataclysmic drop in revenue by an unfathomable 98%, Rapino is confident that live music will return to a “robust” state […]
Stream Terminal Nation’s Ridiculously Heavy New Album Holocene Extinction
The Arkansas band Terminal Nation make some brutally heavy and intense music. Terminal Nation have been releasing music since 2014, and they’ve left behind a bloody trail of grimy, nasty EPs. Listening back through their Bandcamp, you can hear a whole aesthetic evolution at work, as the band has moved from short, fast bursts of […]
New Music: Smoke DZA Ft. Flipp Dinero, Jadakiss “Hibachi”
This is really fucking cool. Hibachi’s price just went up, thanks to Smoke DZA’s latest serving featuring Flipp Dinero and Jadakiss. Backed by Flipp’s infectious hook and braggadocios opener, DZA brings stoned-cold bars filled with glitz and swag, while Jada’s cutting business deals in the hood. Aha!
Gag Announce New Album 'Still Laughing', Share Title Track: Listen
The Olympia, Washington band Gag make a ferociously ugly form of hardcore punk. You could be listening to them on headphones in a sterilized, empty Apple Store, and you’d still feel like you had basement-show funk accumulating in your pores. Gag have been around for the better part of a decade, and they’ve spun off […]
New Music: Juice WRLD Ft. The Weeknd “Sad”
XO and 999 connect. The late Juice WRLD finds The Weeknd on their long-awaited collaboration. The track is lifted from the upcoming Legends Never Die (Deluxe). Juice WRLD released the original Legends Never Die last month and it debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 charts. The Weeknd’s coming off the release of his […]
New Music: Young M.A “Big Steppa”
Here comes the Young Stepper. Young M.A’s stomping with the big dogs on her new track. Produced by Mike Zombie, the Brooklyn rapper reps her set and G checks her peers while stunting and bagging your chick.
Krallice Release Surprise Album 'Mass Cathexis': Stream
For more than a decade, the New York band Krallice have combined forbidding, atmospheric black metal fury with experimental math-rock complexity. Most of the time, they’ve been wildly prolific. In 2017, for instance, Krallice released two albums — Go Be Forgotten on their own, and Loüm in collaboration with Neurosis member Dave Edwardson. But they’ve […]
Year Of The Knife Release Hellacious Debut Album 'Internal Incarceration': Stream
The young Delaware band Year Of The Knife make an absolutely brutal form of metallic hardcore. They play fast and ugly, bu they’re not a basement band. Instead, YOTK’s sound has the grand-scale ferocity of some of the best death metal. It’s a truly satisfying form of pulverization. Today, we get to hear it in […]
Stream Komusō & Setsuko's Blisteringly Intense New Split EP
According to the infinite font of wisdom that is Wikipedia, the Komusō were “a group of Japanese mendicant monks of the Fuke school of Zen Buddhism who flourished during the Edo period of 1600–1868.” Komusō, the band whose name invokes those monks, is a Tokyo combo whose sound ranges from creeping, tightly wound post-hardcore to […]
Anderson. Paak – “Lockdown (Remix)” (Feat. J.I.D, Noname, & Jay Rock)
On Juneteenth, Anderson .Paak released “Lockdown,” a protest song about racism and police brutality that got a solid amount of votes in our annual Song Of The Summer poll. The video version of the track had a verse from Jay Rock. And now .Paak is releasing a star-studded new “Lockdown” remix with that Jay Rock […]