For nearly 20 years, the Portland composer Matthew Robert Cooper has been recording gorgeously acoustic ambient music under the name Eluvium. Early next year, Cooper will follow his last two Eluvium albums, 2020’s Virga I and 2021’s Virga II, with the new LP (Whirring Marvels In) Consensus Reality. That new Eluvium album is inspired by […]
Video: Yung Bleu “What Type Of Games”
How it’s going down? Yung Bleu pays tribute to the late DMX in his new video, “What Type Of Games”. Drawing inspiration from DMX’s 1998 hit “How’s It Goin’ Down“, which the song also interpolates, the James Bahman-directed clip centers Bleu going through the highs and lows of a relationship with his woman and the […]
Video: Rich The Kid “Motion”
Big racks. Big ol’ racks. Coming on the heels of his new deal with RCA Records, Rich The Kid gets things in “Motion” for the accompanying music video to his recent single. Directed by DrewFilmedIt, the visual catches the Queens-College Park native flexing his bands from his private jet to his Rolls Royce and making […]
Gucci Mane – “Letter To Takeoff”
Gucci Mane has shared a new single, “Letter To Takeoff,” which acts as a eulogy for the Migos member, who was shot and killed earlier this month. Migos and Gucci Mane collaborated quite a bit over the years, and they were signed to his 1017 label for a time. Gucci Mane also spoke at the […]
Dolly Parton Receives $100 Million From Jeff Bezos And Lauren Sanchez
His philanthropic ex-wife MacKenzie Scott isn’t the only one to use her fortune for good! Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his girlfriend Lauren Sanchez announced that Dolly Parton is the recipient of Bezos’ 2022 Courage and Civility Award. Worth $100 million, the award was given to the country music icon for her ongoing philanthropic efforts […]
Cigarettes After Sex – “Pistol”
Cigarettes After Sex continue to specialize in woozy, dreamy, softspoken pop. “Pistol,” the latest from Greg Gonzalez and friends, glides gracefully along in the way we’ve come to expect, pretty and fragile and dreamlike and sensual. Hear it below. Pistol by Cigarettes After Sex
Shame – “Fingers Of Steel”
The UK rock band Shame have announced a new album, Food For Worms, the follow-up to Drunk Tank Pink, which came out at the beginning of 2021. It’s been billed as a more expansive sound for the band, and they recruited esteemed producer Flood to record it with them. In a press release, bandleader Charlie […]
Stream Goon’s Surprise EP Red Ladder
It’s been a prolific year for Goon. After releasing their Paint By Numbers Vol. 1 EP in February, the Los Angeles indie rockers briefly released a covers EP benefitting abortion rights in May. The main course for 2022 was full-length Hour Of Green Evening. And today the band is back with a surprise EP called […]
Fucked Up – “Found”
Fucked Up have kept busy these last few years with a new entry in their Zodiac series and a couple of EPs, but they haven’t released a proper full-length album since 2018’s Dose Your Dreams. They have a new one coming early next year, though, and they previewed it last month with “One Day,” the […]
Chat Pile – “Tenkiller” & “Lake Time (Mr. Rodan)”
In July, the Oklahoma City noise-rock band Chat Pile released their full-length debut God’s Country, a grimy and splenetic sludge-attack that stands tall as one of the year’s best albums. In a few days, Chat Pile will follow that album with another new LP, though this next one is a little different. The band recorded […]