The Toronto rock band the Beaches have been around for over a decade, making punchy rock songs, and they’ve been popular in Canada for a while, winning Breakthrough Group Of The Year at the Juno Awards in 2018 following the release of their debut album Late Show. But they experienced a big spike in popularity […]
Norah Jones – “Staring At The Wall”
Norah Jones is releasing a new album, Visions, in a couple weeks, and she introduced it last month with “Running.” It’s her first album of original songs in four years, since 2020’s Pick Me Up Off The Floor. Jones worked on the album alongside Leon Michels of El Michels Affair. Today, she’s back with a […]
NBA YoungBoy Returns With New Song & Video ‘Steppa’ — Watch
Just seven and a half weeks into 2024, NBA YoungBoy has dropped his seventh new song of the year. Most recently he dropped ‘No Time‘ and tonight, he’s back with a new song called ‘Steppa’, the video for which is directed by Hoodrich Kevin. Watch the video below. [embedded content]
Billy Corgan Starring In Wrestling Reality Show On The CW
In addition to his main gig as the leader of the Smashing Pumpkins, Billy Corgan has long had an association with professional wrestling. In 2017, he purchased the National Wrestling Alliance and has served as its president since then. Today, NWA announced a new partnership with television network The CW to air their programs, and […]
Heavenly Blue – “Static Voice Speaks To Static Me”
The Detroit screamo band Youth Novel got started in 2012, and they broke up around the same time that they released their self-titled 2021 album. While Youth Novel were winding down, guitarist Maya Chun and bassist Jon Riley started a new seven-member screamo ensemble called Heavenly Blue. Heavenly Blue released a track on the massive […]
Perfume Genius – “What A Difference A Day Makes” (Dinah Washington Cover)
Jack Antonoff executive produced the soundtrack for The New Look, an Apple TV+ series focused on the fashion industry in Paris during World War II — the show’s first three episodes came out last week, and a new one is up on the streaming service today. Antonoff’s soundtrack has a bunch of notable artists covering […]
PinkPantheress Joined By Irish Dancers Cairde, Fan’s Prosthetic Leg At Dublin Tour Kickoff
The PinkPantheress live experience seems… unpredictable. She doesn’t perform live all that often, but when she does, stories tend to emerge. When PinkPantheress played her sole SXSW set, the people who caught it were, by and large, not impressed. In November, PinkPantherss performed “Angel,” her song from the Barbie soundtrack, for the first time at […]
Power Trip Share Statement About Tour With New Singer
Earlier today, Goldenvoice revealed the lineup for its new festival No Values, and on the third line of the poster was Power Trip. The Texas band has been largely inactive since the death of frontman Riley Gale in 2020, but late last year the remaining members of Power Trip — Blake Ibanez, Chris Ulsh, Nick […]
Vijay Iyer, A Man Without Boundaries
I’ve been listening to Vijay Iyer’s music for almost 20 years. We first met in 2006, when I was the editor of the world music magazine Global Rhythm and he had just released Raw Materials, an album of duos with saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa. They came up to the magazine’s offices and I interviewed them together. […]
Magic Tuber Stringband – “Twelfth House”
Last month, the North Carolina folk duo Magic Tuber Stringband announced a new album, Needlefall (their first for Thrill Jockey), and shared its lead single “Days Of Longing.” Today, they’re back with another song from the album, “Twelfth House.” “I wrote Twelfth House for fiddle,” Courtney Werner, one-half of the group, explained. “I tried to […]