Picasso, baby. Lloyd Banks and Vado splatter the boards with their joint freestyle, “Painted Houses”. Utilizing Daringer and Beat Butcher’s bells from Griselda’s Fire In The Booth freestyle, Banks self-proclaims his GOAT status, while Vado rings off with his guest spot. The work of art proceeds Banks’ previous masterpieces including his “Cold Summer” and “Hunting […]
Omni – "The Stranger" (Billy Joel Cover) & "Art For Art's Sake" (10cc Cover)
Atlanta post-punk trio Omni have made their second contribution to Lagniappe Sessions, the covers series maintained by OG music blog Aquarium Drunkard. Back in 2016, they tackled Alice Cooper’s “Identity Crisis” and the Boys Next Door’s “Somebody’s Watching Me.” Since then they’ve released a pair of great albums for a pair of venerable indie labels […]
Run the Jewels Announce Release Date for 'RTJ4' | SPIN
Run the Jewels will release their fourth LP, RTJ4, on June 5 via Jewel Runners/BMG. The 11-track album runs over 40 minutes and features a number of heavy-hitters, including Pharrell Williams, Josh Homme Mavis Staples, 2 Chainz, Zack de la Rocha and more. RTJ4, which took two years to complete, was primarily recorded at Rick Rubin’s Shangri-La […]
Nirvana Highlights List of Peel Sessions on YouTube
Legendary DJ John Peel was a music institution for almost four decades, highlighting influential bands and underground sounds on his BBC Radio 1 program. The shows featured over 4,000 in-studio sessions from over 2,000 artists — captured from 1967 up through his death in 2004. A good chunk of those recordings are floating around YouTube, […]
Amnesia Scanner – “AS Tearless” (Feat. Lalita)
These are bad times for many, many things, but they’re good times for pieces of art related to the apocalypse. Case in point: Amnesia Scanner, a Finnish experimental electronic duo based in Berlin, are getting ready to release their sophomore album Tearless, and it’s a sort of concept album about living in a dying world. […]
JME & Skepta's "Nang" Video Is The Coolest Thing On The Internet Today: Watch
The London rapper JME has been making records for more than a decade. He’s a fixture in the grime world. With his brother Skepta, JME co-founded the Boy Better Know collective. He’s made a whole lot of bangers, both alone and with Skepta. And yet it’s possible that JME has never done anything cooler than […]
Tanya Donelly And The Parkington Sisters – “Automatic” (The Go-Go’s Cover)
Over the past few weeks, Tanya Donelly of Belly, Breeders, and Throwing Muses has been releasing a series of covers and donating the proceeds to charity. She’s covered artists including Pixies, Marianne Faithfull, Labi Siffre, and Bob Marley. And now she’s announcing an entirely different covers-based project: a new album of covers recorded with the […]
Standing On The Corner – "Angel"
The nebulous Brooklyn collective Standing On The Corner have spent the last couple years collaborating with some big names, including Solange, Earl Sweatshirt, and Danny Brown. The group’s last release of their own was the 2017 mixtape RED BURNS, which followed their 2016 self-titled debut, and now they’re gearing up for something new. Today, they’ve […]
Rivers Cuomo Covered Nirvana's 'Heart-Shaped Box'
Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo is a self-proclaimed Nirvana super-fan, so it shouldn’t be a surprise that he covered one of that band’s signature tracks, “Heart-Shaped Box,” during quarantine. The performance, which originated from a Zoom session hosted for fans, finds the songwriter stripping back the heavy In Utero rocker to a quiet solo piano ballad. […]
Jordana – "I'll Take It Boring"
Over the past couple years, the young songwriter Jordana Nye was steadily building up her sound, carving out a sort of bedroom-pop aesthetic for herself. Earlier this year, she re-released her 2019 debut Classical Notions Of Happiness in a remastered/expanded format. Along the way, she shared “Crunch,” one of the new songs added to the […]