In 2017, legendary alt-rock producer and Garbage drummer Butch Vig formed a new band with Soundtrack Of Our Lives’ Ebbot Lundberg, Bristol producer Andy Jenks, and DJ James Grillo. That band, 5 Billion In Diamonds, released their self-titled debut album that same year. And now they seem to be coming back for LP2, as they’ve […]
Annie Announces First Album In 11 Years, Shares New Single "American Cars": Listen
Annie back! The Norwegian pop singer Anne Lilia Berge Strand became the toast of the indie-blog world way back in 2004, when her singles “Heartbeat” and “Chewing Gum” hit American message boards and rode a wave of critical goodwill. But in the years since then, Annie has been relatively quiet. She hasn’t released any music […]
Kamaiyah – "Black Excellence"
Kamaiyah is not messing around this year. Back in February, she released her long-awaited album Got It Made. (We named it Album Of The Week.) That was a great, underrated release, and it would’ve certainly been an impressive enough mark to leave on 2020. But since then, Kamaiyah’s started churning out (seemingly?) standalone singles. First […]
Trash Talk Release New Kenny Beats-Produced EP 'Squalor': Stream
The feral hardcore rippers Trash Talk, the band that’s put on some of the wildest live shows I’ve ever seen, have just made their big return. Squalor, Trash Talk’s new EP, is their first new music since they dropped the free-download EP Tangle in 2016. And this time around, the band worked with an unexpected […]
Dave Grohl, Jon Batiste, Jim James and More to Play Preservation Hall Benefit
Dave Grohl, Jon Batiste, Jim James and more musicians will be bringing their talents to ‘Round Midnight Preserves, a special show to help benefit the Preservation Hall Foundation. The livestream show will feature a set of musical collaborations and never-before-seen performances from past Midnight Preserves. There will also be commentary from Preservation Hall Creative Director […]
The Mekons Release Surprise Album 'Exquisite': Listen
The Mekons started out in late-’70s Leeds as a collective art project, and that’s basically what the band still is, more than 40 years later. Over the years, the Mekons have moved from sound to sound — political punk, skittery post-punk, experimental quasi-reggae, doom-laded country-folk, various combinations of all of those. They’ve remained cult heroes, […]
Anderson .Paak Shares Anti-Racist Juneteenth Protest Song "Lockdown": Listen
Up until now, the most high-profile thing that Anderson .Paak did in 2020 was rapping about cultural appropriation in the children’s movie Trolls World Tour. But today, like so many before him, .Paak has come out with a new single about the current global uprising against police brutality and racism. It’s presumably not a coincidence […]
Hot Chip's Remix Gives Hayley Williams' "Dead Horse" New Life
Given the way Hayley Williams chose to roll out her debut solo album Petals For Armor — trickling out almost the whole album, one song at a time, over the course of months — you may have tuned out by the time she dropped “Dead Horse.” If so, you messed up. The reggae-inflected rocker is […]
Public Enemy Attack Donald Trump On The New DJ Premier-Produced Single "State Of The Union (STFU)": Listen
The last time we heard from righteous rap legends Public Enemy, things were not so righteous. Back in April, the group announced that their noisy split from longtime hypeman Flavor Flav was a hoax, and that it was all staged to promote the new album from Public Enemy offshoot Public Enemy Radio. That sucked! Nobody […]
New Music: Alicia Keys “Perfect Way To Die”
Alicia Keys feels your pain on the latest single off her forthcoming album, ALICIA. Inspired by the killings of Mike Brown and Sandra Bland, the singer sends condolences and feels the affects of lost loved ones across the world. Alicia takes part in the next Verzuz with John Legend tonight.