Janelle Monaé feels like more of a movie star than a pop star at this point, but their track record in pop music remains spectacular. They’ll add to it this summer with The Age Of Pleasure, their first album since 2018’s Dirty Computer. It opens with Monáe’s recent single “Float” and also features “Lipstick Lover,” […]
The Top One-Hit Wonders Of The ’80s Will Take You Back
While the 1970s was filled with disco and glam rock, the ’80s ushered in an era of catchy pop tunes, synthesizer beats, and new wave songs. With so many new sounds to play around with there were a ton of bands who made it big with one song only to never be heard from again […]
Video: Janelle Monae “Lipstick Lover”
Janelle Monae puckers up and gets nasty on her island-tinged single, “Lipstick Lover”. Along with the release, the highly-provocative clip, directed by herself and Alan Ferguson, finds Janelle getting naughty at an outdoor pool gathering full of women. “I like lipstick on my neck / Leave a sticky hickey in a place I won’t forget,” […]
Video: Jorja Smith “Little Things”
Just a little thing for you and I. It’s just the “Little Things” that love do that gets Jorja Smith moving on her new single. Directed by Bolade Banjo, the accompanying music video centers the English songstress on the mic at a house party where she describes the turns on from someone who has caught […]
Video: G Herbo “We Don’t Care”
G Herbo simply could care less in his latest and self-directed music video, “We Don’t Care. Shot by Kevin Mares and Jaren Holden, the Chiraq rapper savagely raps living life with no regrets as he makes endless moves. “Fuck this shit, I don’t even care, that’s why I don’t even right it / I don’t […]
The Drums – “Plastic Envelope” & “Protect Him Always”
Last month, Jonny Pierce aka the Drums released his first new single of 2023: “I Want It All.” It arrived three years after some one-off 2020 singles as the Drums & Jonny Pierce and a 2019 LP Brutalism. Today, Pierce is sharing two more new Drums tracks, “Plastic Envelope” and “Protect Him Always.” “‘Plastic Envelope’ […]
The View Got Into A Fistfight Onstage In Manchester, Tonight’s Show Postponed
Until recently, Scottish rockers the View, best-known for the 2007 UK hit “Same Jeans,” had been on hiatus since 2017. Since then, frontman Kyle Falconer released a pair of solo albums. Last year, the View got back together and played a few shows, and they’ve got plans to release a new album called Exorcism Of […]
Natural Wonder Beauty Concept – “Sword”
DJ Python teamed with Ela Minus on a fantastic three-song release last year that we named both one of 2022’s best EPs and one of its best electronic albums. Now Python has formed another duo with a different experimental electronic talent, Ana Roxanne. Together they’re Natural Wonder Beauty Concept, and their self-titled debut is coming […]
Will Butler Scored A New Play About A Band Clashing In The Studio
Will Butler has scored a new play about a band clashing in the studio. The former Arcade Fire member wrote original music for Stereophonic, a play written by David Adjmi and directed by Daniel Aukin that will premiere in October as part of Playwrights Horizons next season. Here’s the official description: David Adjmi’s Stereophonic zooms […]
The Pretenders – “Let The Sun Come In”
Rock And Roll Hall Of Famer Chrissie Hynde has been in the news lately for slagging off the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame; she’s as real as it gets. Hynde founded the Pretenders in 1978, and she’s continued to lead her band through tragic deaths and lineup changes and shifting tides for the past […]