Mastodon’s Brent Hinds teamed with Marcus King on Monday night to cover Black Sabbath’s “Electric Funeral” and ZZ Top’s “Thunderbird” during a livestreamed charity concert. The show was the third installment of King’s “Four of a Kind” live stand supporting MusiCares, the Recording Academy’s nonprofit organization helping musicians during times of crisis. Spotify’s COVID-19 Music Relief […]
Hear Poppy's Apocalyptic New Song 'Khaos x4'
Join Poppy and dance through the apocalypse. On her reliably genre-repellent new single, “Khaos x4,” the vocalist moves from cutesy whisper to frightening scream over a shifting backdrop of glitchy electronics, wailing metal guitars, and power-pop flourishes. “Everyone around you is a casualty,” she sings. “I’m happy that the world is gonna end.” Listen below. […]
New Video: Plies “I’m Not A Racist” | Rap Radar
Ass matters. Plies shows that he’s anti-racist, but he does so in true Big Gates fashion in his new video. In the video, Plies turns a pool with an oceanfront view into his personal playground. He emerges from the water with a gun and rides in various toy cars while a bevy of ladies in […]
Emmys 2020: Trent Reznor, Devo's Mark Mothersbaugh, Pharrell, Sheila E, RZA, and More Nominated
This morning, though it still feels weird to say it, the 2020 Emmy nominees were announced. For our purposes, there were quite a few familiar names on that list. Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross were nominated for Outstanding Music Composition For a Limited Series, Movie or Special (Original Dramatic Score) and Outstanding Original […]
Angel Olsen Preps New LP 'Whole New Mess'
Angel Olsen will release her fifth studio LP, Whole New Mess, on August 28 via Jagjaguwar. She teased the album with a stark, eerie video for the newly issued title track. Watch below. The single frames Olsen’s dreamy croon around electric guitars with heavy reverb. “Won’t be long now before it’s really showing / It’s […]
Long Knife – “Night Of The Hunter” & “Rough Liver”
For the better part of a decade, the Portland punks Long Knife have been making fast, ugly, fantastically nasty hardcore punk songs about being drunk and angry. Today, they’ve come out with a couple of new bangers, their first in a few years. Long Knife have two albums to their name, 2013’s Wilderness and 2015’s […]
Dame Release Intense, Gothy Self-Titled Postpunk EP: Stream
Over the years, a whole lot of bands have played around with the sounds of the post-punk and goth bands that came out of the UK in the late ’70s and early ’80s. And yet people are still finding new ways to mess with those sounds. Consider the Boston band Dame, who play dark, cold […]
Agent blå – "Atopos"
In the three years since we last checked in on the revved-up Gothenburg indie-pop band Agent blå, they’ve kept releasing a steady stream of “death pop,” including a whole album called Morning Thoughts last year. Today their consistent output continues with news of a new EP called Atopos, set for release this fall on Kanine. […]
Korn & Yelawolf Covered The Charlie Daniels Band’s “The Devil Went Down To Georgia,” And It Kind Of Rules
Earlier this month, the longtime country-music fixture Charlie Daniels died of a hemorrhagic stroke at the age of 83. Over his lifetime, Daniels had a hell of a journey. In the ’60s and ’70s, he played with Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen. By the end of his life, he was a virulently right-wing Twitter presence. […]
Stream Dorian’s New Project Songs In The Key Of Love (Part 1 & Part 2)
Dorian dropped a two part project titled Songs In The Key Of Love including 14 songs produced in an R&B and pop spirit. Within only an hour he walks us through his secrets, love stories, intimate events, and deepest dreams. Lyrically, Dorain exposes himself as a great storyteller with a talent to deliver honest narrative […]