Nap Eyes, the ramshackle Canadian folk-rock poets, returned last month after three years away with a pair of new songs. Today they have another new single out. “Demons,” adapted from a phantasmagorical poem by Russian Romantic poet Alexander Pushkin (and not the hall of fame Trouble Will Find Me track), is a remarkable accomplishment. It […]
Chappell Roan Chokes Up At Raleigh Show As Bonnaroo Announces They’re Moving Her To A Bigger Stage: “My Career Is Going Really Fast, And It’s Really Hard To Keep Up”
Music-festival lineups and plans are usually locked into place long before they’re announced, and those festivals can struggle to respond when they’ve booked an artist who’s suddenly surging in popularity. That’s happening right now with Chappell Roan, currently on the kind of meteoric rise that we don’t see too often. Roan’s current tour was meant […]
GUM / Ambrose Kenny-Smith – “Dud”
Last month, Jay Watson of Tame Impala and Pond announced his project GUM was doing a collaborative album with Ambrose Kenny-Smith of King Gizzard & The Lizard titled Ill Times. They shared the title track, and now they’re back with “Dud.” “Dud” was co-written by Kenny-Smith’s late father, Broderick Smith, who was a well-known musician […]
Easy Life Changes Name To Hard Life After Lawsuit, Hard-Fi Responds
Easy Life is the former name of a pop band from Leicester, England. They are not the same thing as EasyJet, which is a British budget airline. They are also not the same thing as Hard-Fi, the recently-reunited rock band also from the UK. But it appears there’s been some confusion lately! Last October, fka […]
Wiki & Tony Seltzer – “No L’s”
The grimy, streetwise NYC rapper Wiki teamed with producer Tony Seltzer on an album called 14k Figaro last fall. They’ve got a new track together out today. “No L’s” is, as you might expect, about how Wiki is not taking any L’s this year. I can’t speak to the whole of his 2024, but this […]
J. Cole Shares Old Footage In ‘Trae The Truth In Ibiza’ Video — Watch
Of course, J. Cole’s random Might Delete Later accounts on social media ended up culminating with the Might Delete Later album. After he removed ‘7 Minute Drill’ from the LP, the final track is now ‘Trae The Truth In Ibiza’ and today, Cole gets back onto the Might Delete Later pages to put out a […]
J. Cole Shares Old Footage In ‘Trae The Truth In Ibiza’ Video — Watch
Of course, J. Cole’s random Might Delete Later accounts on social media ended up culminating with the Might Delete Later album. After he removed ‘7 Minute Drill’ from the LP, the final track is now ‘Trae The Truth In Ibiza’ and today, Cole gets back onto the Might Delete Later pages to put out a […]
Yellow Swans Share First New Music In 14 Years
The experimental, improv-heavy Portland noise duo Yellow Swans were a prolific force in the ’00s, but the group decided to break up in 2008, and they went dormant for years. In 2020, Yellow Swans started posting archival material on Bandcamp, and they got back together to play their first live show in 15 years at […]
Sturgill Simpson Shares Plan To Thwart Scalpers On “Johnny Blue Skies” Tour
Last week, the constantly-shifting artist Sturgill Simpson announced his plan to release a new album, Passage Du Desir, under the name Johnny Blue Skies. He also announced a tour that’ll take him to some big amphitheater-sized venues later this year. Simpson isn’t a big fan of music-industry practices, and the live-show business hasn’t exactly been […]
Model For Duran Duran’s Iconic Rio Cover Finally Identified
Last year, Duran Duran released their Halloween-themed album Danse Macabre. Today, the pop-rock band finally revealed the identity of the woman on the cover of their 1982 album Rio: a model by the name of Marcie Hunt. The artwork was famously painted by Patrick Nagel, and the Instagram fan account @nagel_angel spent “countless hours” researching […]