Rina Sawayama is just two days from dropping SAWAYAMA, her debut album. The Niigata-born, London-based singer seems to be delving into some heavy aughts nostalgia on the album, sometimes by blending pop with nu-metal in a way that connects the dots between Grimes and Evanescence. On new single “Bad Friend,” though, she scales back the […]
Queen's Brian May Blames Meat for Coronavirus Outbreak
Queen guitarist Brian May is ready to point the blame for the coronavirus outbreak — but it’s not at who you think. In an interview with NME, May said that carnivores and meat-eating culture at large are to blame. “This pandemic seemed to come from people eating animals and it’s becoming more well known that […]
Norah Jones Rolls Out Poetic New Single "How I Weep"
Norah Jones Drops ‘I’m Alive’ Norah Jones has released “How I Weep” as the second single from her upcoming 8th LP, Pick Me Up Off The Floor (due June 12). The track began life as a poem and that comes across in both its structure and expressive lyrics. “How I weep for the loss and […]
Ryan Hemsworth – "New Life" & "Sun Up"
Ryan Hemsworth put out his last full-length album, Elsewhere, back in 2018, but the Canadian producer never stays silent for too long. In the last year or so, he’s put out a ton of different projects, including a collaboration with the Japanese rap duo Yurufuwa Gang, a song with Wednesday Campanella, and, just a couple […]
Watch a Clip From the Upcoming David Bowie Biopic
Starman, the upcoming unauthorized David Bowie, has revealed its first clip. The film is set in 1971, when Bowie heads out on his first trip to America, only to be met with a world not yet ready for him. It also traces how he builds his Ziggy Stardust persona that would change music a few […]
Jamie xx – "Idontknow"
Jamie xx has shared a new song today, “Idontknow.” It’s his first new single since the release of his 2015 debut solo album, In Colour. The xx member has been pretty quiet over these last few years, but earlier this month he popped up on a new mixtape from drill rapper Headie One and producer […]
Ryo Kawasaki, Guitarist, Composer and Inventor, Dies at 73
Ryo Kawasaki, who is known for creating the Kawasaki synth program for the Commodore 64, died on April 13 at his adopted home in Tallinn, Estonia. He was 73. “My daddy. A true original,” his daughter, Tane Kawasaki Saavedra, wrote in a Facebook post on Monday (April 13). “Just as your name suggests, you did […]
DJ Jazzy Jeff Describes Having COVID-19: 'Scared Me to Death'
DJ Jazzy Jeff has opened up about having COVID-19. In a conversation with Tamron Hall, Jeff said that he suspects that he contracted COVID-19 after performing at the annual Black Summit of the National Brotherhood of Skiers in Ketchum, Idaho in early March. “I didn’t even realize the severity of it,” he said in the video […]
Thurston Moore Shares Unreleased Song From 2016
Thurston Moore has shared an outtake from his work with Thurston Moore Group a few weeks after unveiling songs from Chelsea Light Moving. The song, “Instant Transcendent Conjecture,” comes was originally recorded in 2016 and sounds like, well, what you’d expect from the ex-Sonic Youth frontman and guitarist. This wild child was let loose in 2016 […]
Thurston Moore Group – “Instant Transcendent Conjecture”
Lately, scratchy-guitar godfather Thurston Moore has been throwing a bunch of his outtakes up onto Bandcamp. Last month, Moore shared a couple of unreleased tracks from his post-Sonic Youth band Chelsea Light Moving. Today, he’s dropped a 2016-vintage song from the Thurston Moore Group, the band that also included drummer Steve Shelley, Moore’s former Sonic […]