In recent years, former Bay Area indie rock super-producer John Vanderslice has moved to LA, gotten way into psychedelic drugs, and started releasing electronic music. His new album CRYSTALS 3.0 — named after a method of synthesizing pure LSD — sees him funneling those experiences back into the artisanal indie-pop singer-songwriter fare he made his […]
Thus Love – “Centerfield”
The new Thus Love song is not a John Fogerty cover. The Vermont trio’s “Centerfield” is a composition of their own, a gloomy new wave slow jam that sounds like it maybe could have come out in 1985, the same year as the other “Centerfield,” but also sounds nothing like CCR. “Dark day/ Centerfield,” goes […]
MSPAINT – “Titan Of Hope”
Mississippi synt-punk freaks MSPAINT, a Stereogum Band To Watch, are less than a month away from releasing their full-length debut Post-American, and people are amped for this one. MSPAINT are a weird, experimental band with a whole lot of ideas, but they’re also tough and physical enough to catch on within hardcore circles, which are […]
Rihanna, A$AP Rocky & Son Cover British Vogue
Everything changes. Photos: Inez & Vinoodh Fresh off her Super Bowl LVII performance, Rihanna takes a walk along the beach with A$AP Rocky and their 9-month-old son on the front cover of British Vogue’s March 2023 issue. In the cover story, the 34-year-old music star, business mogul, and new mother opened on preparing for her […]
Video: Larry June, The Alchemist “60 Days”
Lots of shit happens in “60 Days”. Bay Area’s Larry June and producer The Alchemist connect for their new collaboration, “60 Days”. Directed by Sean Kelly, Good Job Larry and Al pull up to a plush estate in the desert out West where they kick it and polish up on their upcoming project. “Fresh game, […]
Who Is She? Release The Jeff Bezos-Dissing Song That Got Them Disinvited From Amazon-Affiliated Arena
Who Is She?, the Seattle indie supergroup featuring members of Tacocat, Chastity Belt, and Lisa Prank, were in the midst of a three-game stint as the house band for new NHL franchise the Seattle Kraken when they performed a Seattle-specific update on Le Tigre’s “My My Metrocard” retitled “My My Orca Card.” The tweaked lyrics […]
Video: Tony Yayo “Banksy Painting”
This chick is loyal. Coming on the heels of his new mixtape, The Loyal, Tony Yayo delivers the video for its “Banksy Painting”. Co-directed by Tony Yayo and Street Heat Films; Will C and Tana Richie4k, the gory clip follows Tony riding a hearse to a remote location where a voluptuous woman murders one of […]
Video: Maino, Fabolous Ft. Stuy Babyz “Best For Me”
Nice! Maino and Fabolous celebrate Valentine’s Day with their new drop “Best For Me” featuring Stuy Babyz. Along with Stuy Babyz’s O-Wave and Yellow Zoo who provide the melodic hook, the accompanying visual centers Maino and Loso in a lavish estate serenading their female company with their raunchy bars. “That’s when she drunk, I hate […]
Watch Snail Mail Cover Talking Heads’ “This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)” With Mac DeMarco
Last year Snail Mail and Mac DeMarco teamed up on a loosie called “A Cuckhold’s Refrain” under the name Peppermint Patty. Monday, on the fourth night of Lindsey Jordan’s Valentine Fest at Baltimore’s Ottobar — which already yielded an Avril Lavigne cover with Soccer Mommy over the weekend — DeMarco showed up during Snail Mail’s […]
Video: Vado “So Kate”
Happy V-Day. Vado has announced the fourth installment of his V-Day series and celebrates the occasion with the upcoming project’s first single, “So Kate”. In the matching visuals, Vado kicks his love tale while hanging with his crew and “No fussing no more smoke / No cussing your boy out / Sending Justin Laboy posts […]