The Butcher is coming. Closing out deals from left to right, comes Benny The Butcher and the video to his new track. Over Daringer’s murky production, Benny raps heavy loads of kilos and dope money inside the studio with his crew, before closing out the track with an encore of bragging rights. These are the […]
Mac Miller's 'K.I.D.S.' Is Coming to Vinyl For Its 10th Anniversary
It has been a big year for Mac Miller fans. Following the release of his critically acclaimed posthumous record, Circles, and as 2010’s K.I.D.S. tape finally found its way on streaming services in April after his label’s long journey clearing the project, the late hip-hop star’s mixtape is officially landing on vinyl for its 10th anniversary. We’re […]
Knot – "Foam"
Krill is back, baby. Basically. As teased last year, the three members of the beloved Boston-bred band Krill have reformed under the name Knot. Their new band is made up of the three Krill members at the time of their break-up in 2015 — Jonah Furman, Aaron Ratoff, and Ian Becker — plus new guitarist […]
Moor Mother & billy woods – "Furies"
Both Moor Mother and billy woods have been quite busy this year. Moor Mother was involved in two different albums, one with Mental Jewelry and another as part of Irreversible Entanglements, and billy woods put out a new album as one-half of Armand Hammer. Moor Mother had a guest spot on that Armand Hammer album […]
Gerard Way – “Here Comes The End” (Feat. Judith Hill)
The trailer for the upcoming second season of The Umbrella Academy, Netflix’s offbeat superhero show based on the comic book series written by My Chemical Romance’s Gerard Way, dropped today. And as it happens, the trailer features a brand new solo song from Way himself, inspired by the Rolling Stones and early-’90s Primal Scream and […]
Travis – "Valentine"
Last month, Travis announced a new album, 10 Songs, their first since 2016’s Everything At Once. Its lead single, “A Ghost,” was pretty good, and today the Scottish rockers are back with another one called “Valentine,” a full-sounding track punctuated by some spindly guitars and a lot of pent-up energy. “If I lie here/ I […]
Boldy James & The Alchemist – “Pots And Pans” (Feat. The Cool Kids & Shorty K)
There’s at least some chance that Freddie Gibbs and the Alchemist’s Alfredo, while excellent, isn’t the best Alchemist-produced rap album to come out in 2020. A few months before Alfredo, the Alchemist teamed up with the hardbitten Detroit rapper Boldy James, a longtime collaborator, and released a tense and entrancing LP of seen-it-all drug-rap called […]
James Blake Worked With Songwriters For Camila Cabello, Maroon 5, & Kelly Clarkson On This New Song Of His
James Blake continues to straddle the worlds of electronic pop and experimental electronics. His 2020 singles so far illustrate that balance: Whereas Blake wrote April’s “You’re Too Precious” with Mount Kimbie’s Dominic Maker, his close collaborator on last year’s Assume Form, he crafted his next offering with a pair of industry songwriters whose previous collabs […]
Silversun Pickups – “Toy Soldiers” (Martika Cover)
Silversun Pickups released their fifth studio album, Widow’s Weeds, a little over a year ago. Today, the Los Angeles rockers are back with a cover of Martika’s 1989 hit “Toy Soldiers,” recorded in January and produced by Butch Vig. “We were thinking about songs from the ’80s that we loved growing up, that had a […]
Chrissie Hynde Blasts Police for Racial Profiling
After witnessing the arrest of two innocent Black athletes over the weekend, Chrissie Hynde is calling out the London police for racial profiling and not focusing on a more troubling issue in her neighborhood — gang activity. Bianca Williams and her partner, Ricardo dos Santos, were the two individuals Hynde was referring to. The couple, […]