For a decade, the Philadelphia punk crew the HIRS Collective have put out a few sprawling albums, including 2018’s Friends, Lovers. Favorites. and last year’s The Third 100 Songs. Today, they’re announcing a new album called We’re Still Here that features a whole lot of collaborators, among them members of Melt Banana, Fucked Up, Soul […]
Stream Backxwash’s New Album His Happiness Shall Come First Even Though We Are Suffering
For Halloween, the rapper and gothic world-builder Backxwash has gifted us with a new album, His Happiness Shall Come First Even Though We Are Suffering. It’s described as the final album in a trilogy that started with 2020’s God Has Nothing To Do With This Leave Him Out Of It and continued with last year’s […]
Celebrate Halloween With Bad Manor’s Campy Lo-Fi Metal Behemoth THE HAUNTING
In the April edition of our monthly metal column The Black Market, we profiled the Ordo Vampyr Orientis, a mysterious collective who seem to be having a fucking blast making spooky lo-fi metal albums with delightfully elaborate fictional backstories. Here’s how they explained themselves in the interview: There are many active participants in our Circle […]
Jack Harlow Hosts & Performs On SNL
Ladies and gentlemen, Jack Harlow. Jack Harlow returned to Saturday Night Live on Saturday (Oct. 29) and pulled a double-duty as the evening’s host and musical performance. After opening up the show with an opening monologue, the rap superstar starred in a few sketches throughout the evening. For his first performance, the 24-year-old Louisville native […]
Video: Lil Baby Ft. Future “From Now On”
Put that shit on everyday. Lil Baby and Future are serving looks in their new video, “From Now On”. Directed by Denity, the two rap superstars seen rocking various fashion while turning up in the streets of New York from boutiques the studio with Lil Uzi Vert. Lil Baby bigs up his co-star, rapping, “Me […]
Video: Rihanna “Lift Me Up”
The wait is over. After over six years, Rihanna makes her triumphant return with “Lift Me Up”, the lead single off the soundtrack to the motion picture film, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. In the accompanying video, which features clips from the film, Rihanna walks along a beach during a sunset and sings by a bonfire. […]
Video: IDK “Monsieur Dior”
You know! IDK is traveling across the country in the video to his brand new single, “Monsieur Dior”. The black-and-white visual trails the D.M.V. rapper traveling from city to city before where he mingles with fans and performing at live venues. “My head got my ego high and twelve on my ass / My feelings […]
Video: Ray Vaughn “Tradeline”
Don’t come outside. After previewing the track a few weeks ago, Ray Vaughn’s reckless night comes in full circle in the Long Beach rapper’s latest visual, “Tradeline”. The video begins panning in and out of a hotel where two ladies stick up a few occupants before they take off in a getaway car with Ray, […]
Video: Ice Spice “Bikini Bottom”
Bottoms up. Ice Spice gets lit and makes it hot on her brand new single, “Bikini Bottom”. In the matching visuals, the rising Bronx rapper flaunts her assets and stunts on her female competitors while riding a party bus through New York City and shutting down Times Square. “Look in the mirror, I’m feeling me, […]
Fousheé – “Supernova”
New York alt-soul artist Foushée, who memorably collaborated with Steve Lacy on “Sunshine,” has announced her debut album, softCORE, coming November 18 via RCA. As a press release lays out, softCORE is a “punk record in the most pointed sense of the word” and hones in on Foushée’s genre-rich presentation. It also features a guest […]