It’s mid-July in 1975. You’re sitting on the beach with your friends after enjoying the salty ocean water and your friend hands you an ice cold beer. Like clockwork, someone flips on the transistor radio. What are you listening to? The 1970s was a massively influential time for music with many different genres either evolving […]
Jarvis Cocker Shares “Dear Alien (Who Art In Heaven)” From Asteroid City Soundtrack
The new Wes Anderson movie Asteroid City is headed into wide release this weekend, and its accompanying soundtrack will be out this Friday. It was organized by frequent Anderson collaborator and music supervisor Randall Poster. “Wes and I had so much fun putting the film’s music together. We’ve been doing these soundtracks for almost 30 […]
NYPD Sergeant’s Lawsuit Claims Bosses Plotted To Break Into His Home After He Filed Complaint About Drunk Cops At Electric Zoo
An NYPD sergeant has filed a lawsuit against the department alleging that his bosses plotted to break into his home, forced him to undergo a psychiatric exam, and filed formal charges against him in retaliation for a complaint he filed about officers getting drunk on duty at the EDM festival Electric Zoo on Randall’s Island […]
The Hotelier & Foxing Announce Co-Headlining 10th Anniversary Tour
In 2014, Foxing and the Hotelier headed out on a co-headlining tour in support of their albums The Albatross and Home, Like Noplace There Is, which came out in November 2013 and February 2014, respectively. Ten years and one to two-ish waves of emo later, the bands are doing it again to celebrate the anniversary […]
Taylor Swift Announces More “Eras Tour” International Dates
Taylor Swift is still making her way through the United States on her Eras tour. Last weekend, she was in Pittsburgh, this coming weekend she’ll be in Minneapolis, and this leg wraps up in August in Los Angeles. A couple weeks back, she added shows in Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil to the itinerary — those […]
jaimie branch – “take over the world”
Last year, the avant-garde jazz trumpeter jaimie branch died suddenly at the age of 39. In her lifetime, branch was a prolific collaborator, but she was also known for her solo work and for what she did as one half of the duo Anteloper. Shortly before her death, branch finished work on a solo album […]
Ogbert The Nerd – “Bike Cops”
New Jersey emo band Ogbert The Nerd released their raw, urgent, magnificently catchy debut album I Don’t Hate You in December 2020. It was the kind of record that immediately stokes a hunger for more, but in the two and a half years since, the band has only shared one song, last summer’s “A New […]
Oblivion Access 2023 Brought Heavy, Experimental, And Unclassifiable Music To An Impossibly Hot Austin
The festival featured four nights of music, starting with a smaller Thursday night warm-up confined to just Empire Control Room & Garage and Elysium, and then spreading out across a few other clubs up and down Red River — or, if you wanted to brave the 100-plus degree weather in the daytime, you could also […]
Alienator – “Senseless Violence”
With their 2022 demo, Portland hardcore band Alienator caught the attention of Denver’s essential Convulse Records. Now Convulse is releasing an Alienator 7″. The four-song EP World Of Hate is coming in just a few weeks, and today they’ve shared its opening track. “Senseless Violence” brings a raw edge to straightahead hardcore, spiking it with […]
Video: Gunna “i was just thinking”
Here’s a thought. Gunna gets a few things off his chest in his new music video, “i was just thinking”. Locked inside a box, Young Gunna opens up his troubled past, incarceration, and a moment of clarity regarding Young Thug. “That’s four walls talking to you, telling you you gone / Only I done cried […]