In response, DJ Hed, the California rap DJ who opened Kendrick Lamar’s Pop Out concert, tweeted, “Glad I got the PSA before I did my radio mix. I now have 2 open slots. What should I play ? (From an artist proud to be Hip-Hop)” He added, “NO ONE is bigger than the culture.” Glad […]
Opening The Gates With Blood Incantation
“We like when metal bands make non-metal records,” Riedl adds. “When I was a teenager getting into extreme, underground, black and death metal, I loved bands like Corrupted, who would do a second disc of entirely ambient music on their two-hour album. Or a band like Ulver, who goes acoustic immediately, and then comes back […]
Garth Brooks Sued For Sexual Assault By His Former Makeup Artist
Garth Brooks has been accused of sexual assault and battery in a new lawsuit. According to CNN, the country superstar is being sued by a “Jane Roe” who allegedly worked as his hairstylist and makeup artist. The complaint was filed today (Oct. 3) in California. It claims that Brooks raped her during a work trip […]
Tylan’s “Won’t Get It…” Captures the Heart of Modern R&B
R&B has always been a genre that finds its power in vulnerability and storytelling, and Tylan, the emerging artist from Washington, D.C., is embracing this tradition while carving out a space of his own. With influences like Usher, Brent Faiyaz, and Drake, Tylan blends the emotional depth of classic R&B with contemporary stylings, creating music […]
Springsteen Endorses Harris, Calls Trump “The Most Dangerous Candidate For President In My Lifetime”
Last month, Kamala Harris received an endorsement from pop superstar Taylor Swift. Today, the presidential candidate got support from New Jersey legend Bruce Springsteen in a new Instagram post. In a video, The Boss sits at an old-timey diner and gives a succinct speech saying Harris and her VP candidate Tim Walz are “committed to […]
John Boyega To Star In Otis Redding Biopic
Otis Redding is getting a biopic, and John Boyega will be its star. Director Channing Godfrey Peoples will direct the music-based flick, titled Otis & Zelma, and will portray the “eternal love story” between the late soul legend and his widow, played by Danielle Deadwyler. Before a 1967 plane crash cut his life short at […]
Kelly Lee Owens – “Ballad (In The End)”
We’ve been getting all kinds of advance tracks from Kelly Lee Owens’ new album Dreamstate,“Love You Got,” “Sunshine,” and “Higher” among them. Today we get a fourth. “Ballad (In The End)” lives up to its name as well as the album title Dreamstate, emphasizing shapeless atmospherics in the absence of a beat. Co-written and co-produced […]
Addy – “Rosemary”
Last December, Addy Watkins shared the lovely EP Temperance. Today, the Philadelphia singer-songwriter is back with her first new music since then, the single “rosemary.” The track leans more on the “alt” side of alt-country, a bit reminiscent of Hovvdy at their peppiest, and it’s some of the biggest-sounding music we’ve heard from Addy yet. […]
We’ve Got A File On You: LL Cool J
Few would argue against LL Cool J being a rap innovator. After all, THE FORCE gives him five straight decades with a new album on the Billboard 200. Unafraid to spit bars about having his heart broken or being alone in his bedroom, despondently staring at the wall (see 1987’s “I Need Love“), LL has […]
Daniel Bachman Says He Was Dropped By Label For Tweeting About Royalties
Earlier this year, the virtuosic Virginia folk musician Daniel Bachman got into a public feud with his former label Tompkins Square because of a dispute over his master recordings. Now, Bachman says that he’s been dropped from another label, Three Lobed Recordings, for talking publicly about his royalty payments. Bachman also says that the label […]