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 […]
Taylor Swift’s Bonus Track “The Lakes” Is Out
Two weeks ago, with less than a day’s advance warning, Taylor Swift released her new album folklore. In announcing the album, Swift mentioned that it would have a bonus track called “The Lakes,” which would only appear on the physical editions of the album. Since folklore came out digitally before any of those physical editions […]
Best Coast Revamp 'Boyfriend' to Raise Funds for the Trevor Project
Best Coast has shared a new 2020 version of their hit single, “Boyfriend.” As part of the Bandcamp Friday, Best Coast re-recorded and changed the pronouns on the 10-year-old track to make it more inclusive. “In the decade since writing this song,” Bethany Cosentino said about the song in a statement. “I have had a […]
The Staves – "Nazareth"
It’s been a while since we’ve heard from the great folk trio the Staves. In 2017, they released a collaborative album with yMusic; in 2018 they offered a Christmas song. But you’d have to go all the way back to 2015 and the group’s beloved album If I Was — one of the best that […]