After Damon Albarn revived Gorillaz with 2017’s Humanz, the project has been pretty consistently active. The Now Now quickly followed in 2018, and then in the beginning of this year Gorillaz began teasing something called Song Machine. The premise: a direct feed of new “episodes,” or singles, featuring a characteristically broad array of collaborators and […]
Phoebe Bridges Announces New Album, Shares New Single 'Kyoto'
Phoebe Bridgers has announced the release of her second album. Titled Punisher, Bridgers’ sophomore album will be released on June 19. The album features guest spots from the likes of Nick Zinner, boygenius bandmates Lucy Dacus and Julien Baker, Bright Eyes’ Conor Oberst among many more. It is produced by Bridgers with Tony Berg and Ethan Gruska, […]
Phoebe Bridgers – "Kyoto"
It’s been a little over a month since Phoebe Bridgers released “Garden Song,” the first single from her upcoming sophomore album, and a lot has happened in Phoebeland (and the real world) since then. For Bridgers in particular, she’s guested on a Hayley Williams song alongside her Boygenius comrades (Williams covered a song of hers […]
Pavement Share 'Sensitive Euro Man'
Pavement are celebrating the 25th anniversary of their 1995 album, Wowee Zowee, with the release of a special edition disc. The picture disc is cut into the shape of the speech bubble that you find on the cover of the Wowee Zowee album. The LP will contain three songs including “Sensitive Euro Man” and “Brink […]
Angel Olsen – "All Mirrors (Johnny Jewel Remix)"
Angel Olsen is keeping up a busy schedule during quarantine. The Asheville-based indie star has been regularly posting live covers to her Instagram, including songs by Roxy Music and Tori Amos, and this Saturday at 6PM ET she’ll present a ticketed online performance called Still At Home: An Evening Of Songs On Piano And Guitar. […]
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith – "The Steady Heart"
Experimental composer Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith announced her new album The Mosaic Of Transformation last month with a hell of a lead single, the 10-minute album-closing suite “Expanding Electricity.” She followed that up with a song that’s not on the album, an Adult Swim single called “Becoming Ferromagnetic.” And now she’s back to rolling out the […]
EOB – “Cloak Of The Night” (Feat. Laura Marling)
Way back in December, Radiohead guitarist Ed O’Brien announced his first-ever solo album. O’Brien’s new LP Earth, recorded under the name EOB, is coming out next week. Thus far, O’Brien has shared a number of solo songs: “Santa Teresa,” “Brasil,” “Shangri-La,” “Olympik.” Today, O’Brien has dropped a new one called “Cloak Of The Night,” and […]
New Video: Mozzy Ft. Polo G, Lil Poppa “Pricetag” | Rap Radar
Plata O Plomo Mozzy brings the Narcos vibes in his new video featuring Polo G and Lil Poppa. The track is the latest offering off his Beyond Bulletproof on May 1. Somewhere out in the countryhill side, Mozzy runs runs a cartel at a lush estate with ladies by the pool and his armed guards […]
Chynna, Rising Rapper and A$AP Mob Affillate, Dies at 25
Chynna Rogers, the rising rapper who was an A$AP Mob affiliate, has died at 25, SPIN has confirmed. “Chynna was deeply loved and will be sorely missed,” a statement from her management read. A cause of death was not revealed. Born in Philadelphia, Rogers started off as a model when she was 14, signing a […]
The Strokes Launch New Pirate Radio Series
Say this much about The Strokes: they’re all about going against conventional wisdom. At a time when many of their peers are postponing their album releases, The Strokes aren’t just forging ahead, they’re going into full blitz mode. On Wednesday evening, the quintet dropped the first episode of what they’re calling a pirate radio series […]