Gaga’s Lead Singles Ranked It’s finally here! After a week of non-stop promotion, Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande’s “Rain On Me” takes its place in the New Music Friday lineup. Produced by BloodPop, Tchami and BURNS, the second single from Chromatica is a club banger about dancing away the tears. “I didn’t ask for a […]
Billy Idol Joins Fallon and the Roots for 'Social Distancing Remix' of 'Dancing With Myself'
Quarantine is causing everyone to question…well, everything. That includes reworking classic songs to reflect these times. On The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon on Thursday, Billy Idol showed up to perform a “social distancing remix” of his classic ’80s power anthem “Dancing With Myself.” The song has certainly taken on new meaning in recent months, that’s […]
Green Day Cover Blondie's 'Dreaming'
Billie Joe Armstrong has been on a roll when it comes to cover songs. His No Fun Mondays have seen him run through a number of covers spanning different eras and apparently that’s translated over to his band. Green Day shared their version of Blondie’s “Dreaming,” which comes from the band’s 1979 album of the […]
Trash Talk – "Something Wicked" (Prod. Kenny Beats)
Kenny Beats has made a name for himself by injecting intense aggression into songs by artists like Vince Staples, Freddie Gibbs, Rico Nasty, Denzel Curry, and, most recently, Slowthai. He’s started branching more outside of rap music: He worked on the new IDLES album and he recently collaborated with the Seattle singer Deb Never. Today, […]
Stream Owen Pallett's Surprise New Album 'Island'
Owen Pallett has surprise-released a new album called Island. It’s his first in six years, since 2014’s In Conflict. The instruments are nearly all acoustic, and it was recorded live at Abbey Road Studios with the London Contemporary Orchestra. Pallett originally wrote the album on an acoustic guitar, then conceived of them as an elaborate […]
Stream The 1975's New Album 'Notes On A Conditional Form'
The 1975 have finally released their new album, Notes On A Conditional Form, after an extended rollout that stretched out for a very, very long time. Matty Healy first announced its existence before the band’s last album, 2018’s A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships, was even finished. The rollout kicked off in earnest (sort of) […]
Lady Gaga & Ariana Grande – "Rain On Me"
Lady Gaga has finally shared the second single from her new album, Chromatica, which is now out next week. “Rain On Me” is a collaboration with Ariana Grande, who just hit #1 with a different collab with Justin Bieber. Chromatica’s lead single, “Stupid Love,” came out in February, and the Chromatica album rollout has been […]
New Music: Austin Haze Ft. Elz Jenkins & Big Cheeko “Designer”
Stay fly. Goldyard’s Austin Haze brings his “Designer” to the forefront on his new release. Backed by Dallas Austin’s son Cypress’ production, Austin Haze gets his money right, while Atlanta rappers Elz Jenkins and Big Cheeko bring heir A-Town hustles to the mix. Austin Haze is still hot from the release of his previous drops […]
El-P – "Mama's Hurt" & "That Is Al That's Left"
El-P scored the end credits of Josh Trank’s 2015 Fantastic Four reboot. And now he’s scored the entirety of the director’s new movie Capone, a biopic starring Tom Hardy as an aging Al Capone. “I grew up on film scores and they’ve always been a huge influence on me and I’ve been hoping to get […]
Rivers Cuomo Covers Green Day in Latest Zoom Session
Last week, Rivers Cuomo covered Nirvana’s “Heart-Shaped Box” in what he’s calling his Islands in the Zoom sessions. This week, he went back to the ’90s for another cover. Cuomo and his bandmates were supposed to hit the road this summer with Green Day and Fall Out Boy for the Hella Mega Tour, but, like almost everything […]