Just in time for baseball season’s opening day, The Strokes construct an animated voyage through time and space with their dizzying “Ode to the Mets” video. The clip, directed by friend and collaborator Warren Fu, unfolds across eight chapters — the perspective literally zooming backward from the prehistoric era (where a vintage arcade game looms) to […]
Pearl Jam Announce 2021 European Tour Dates
Pearl Jam’s plans to tour their new album, Gigaton, had to be postponed, like everyone else’s tour, due to the global pandemic. But now there’s some good news. The band has released the new dates for the European leg of their tour that will take place next year. View this post on Instagram Pearl […]
New Music: Black Soprano Family, Benny The Butcher, Rick Hyde, Heem “It’s Over”
The real Sopranos Benny The Butcher and the Black Soprano Family keep it all the way G on their new track. Anchored by Don Cannon’s soulful beat, Benny, Rick Hyde, and Heem bring their mafioso raps to the latest offering off their upcoming Gangsta Grillz tape, The Respected Sopranos dropping July 31. It ain’t over […]
Sada Baby Releases New Mixtape 'Bartier Bounty 2': Stream
This year, the Detroit underground rap hellraiser Sada Baby has been on an absolutely legendary run. He’s introduced us to the great rap absurdist Bfb Da Packman. He’s given us one of the most entertaining music videos in recent memory, in the form of the Sauce Twinz collab “Big Drip Squad.” He’s cranked out a […]
Watch The Psychedelic Furs' New Video for 'Come All Ye Faithful'
As we wait for the release of their first album in nearly three decades, Made Of Rain, the Psychedelic Furs have shared a new video for their track, “Come All Ye Faithful.” “‘Come All Ye Faithful’ is a song about looking for redemption in faith and riches, questioning if either is of any true value […]
Ex-Weakerthans Singer John K. Samson Shares An Ode To Fantasy Baseball In Dystopia For Opening Day
Because we live in a pandemic-poisoned dystopia, today, July 24, is opening day for many Major League Baseball teams. (Yesterday was opening day for some, which resulted in this incredible tweet about Dr. Anthony Fauci’s opening pitch for the Washington Nationals.) The odd circumstances of the season have inspired a new single from former Propagandhi […]
Lala Lala & Baths – “€ € € €^^%%!!!!!heaven!!!!!!”
In the past six months alone, Chicago Band To Watch Lala Lala has released songs with WHY?, Grapetooth, and Porridge Radio. And now Lala Lala’s Lillie West, the queen of collabs herself, is back with another new track, a collaboration with warm electronic pop mastermind Baths. The interestingly titled “€ € € €^^%%!!!!!heaven!!!!!!” is a […]
Gunna Of Course Released A Deluxe Version Of 'Wunna' And Here It Is
He may not be experiencing breakout success on the level of longtime collaborator Lil Baby — who is the subject of a great new Rolling Stone feature — but Gunna nonetheless cemented his place as one of modern rap’s biggest stars with this year’s Wunna, a very solid album that turns trap into psychedelic mood […]
Gulch Releease Ridiculously Intense Debut Album 'Impenetrable Cerebral Fortress': Stream
Within the world of DIY hardcore, the Santa Cruz band Gulch have been one of the big stories of the past few years. Gulch play fast, ugly, corroded music. In their racket you can hear influences from across the aggressive-music spectrum, from death metal and D-beat and the explosive math-music of Botch and the Dillinger […]
Late Bloomer – “All The Gold” & “Soapy Water”
North Carolina power trio Late Bloomer recorded and then scrapped an entire album’s worth of songs before linking up with indie superproducer Justin Pizzoferrato for their 2018 level-up Waiting. Now, years later, they’re revisiting two tracks from those earlier sessions with the new EP Tonight’s No Good For Me, once again mixed by Pizzoferrato. “All […]