One year ago, the Belgian power trio Brutus came roaring back with Unison Life, another album of epic and pulverizing hard rock. Today, as a nice little surprise, they’ve announced a 2024 North American tour and dropped a new single called “Love Won’t Hide The Ugliness.” It’s got Stefanie Mannaerts wailing over crashing chords, and […]
Land Of Talk – “Pwintiques”
Lizzie Powell’s firmly revived Land Of Talk is nearing the release of the third album since the project picked back up in 2017. Performances is due out in October, and we’ve heard lead single “Your Beautiful Self” from it so far. Today, Powell is sharing the seven-minute closing track “Pwintiques,” a moody and escalating instrumental […]
The Staves – “You Held It All”
In early 2021, fantastic folk-rock sisters the Staves released Good Woman, the last thing Jessica and Camilla Staveley-Taylor recorded with their sister and bandmate Emily Staveley-Taylor before she stepped away to focus on motherhood. Today the UK band has returned with their first new song since then, their debut as a duo. It’s called “You […]
Rap Radar Podcast: Allen Hughes
More than 30 years after directing 2Pac’s first music videos, director Allen Hughes returned to the small screen with his Emmy nominated docuseries, Dear Mama. Executive produced by Drake’s Dreamcrew production company, the film chronicled Pac’s relationship with his mother, Afeni. Here, Allen speaks on his acclaimed series, Menace II Society‘s 30 year anniversary, Dead […]
Sia – “Gimme Love”
Sia has released a new single, “Gimme Love.” It’s her first track in two years, and it serves as the first preview of a new album called Reasonable Woman, which will be released next spring. It’s being billed as her first proper pop album in 8 years, since 2016’s This Is Acting. Earlier this year, […]
Belle And Sebastian’s Stuart Murdoch Publishing Debut Novel Next Year
Belle And Sebastian frontman Stuart Murdoch is releasing his debut novel next year. As The Bookseller reports, the Scottish musician’s book Nobody’s Empire will be published in September 2024 — it’s described as “part memoir and part fiction” and follows a character named Stephen who was diagnosed with myalgic encephalomyelitis, or chronic fatigue syndrome, which […]
Yumi Zouma – “KPR”
Yumi Zouma’s 2022 album Present Tense was truly spectacular, and not enough people noticed. Today the transcontinental indie-pop band is back with another effervescent single. “KPR” charges ahead with both force and finesse, matching those achingly dreamy vocals with some truly aggro guitar outbursts, building to one of those gorgeous finales this band does so […]
Eartheater – “Chop Suey!” (System Of A Down Cover)
Somebody’s got Hollywood music directors in their crosshairs! The next single from Eartheater’s suddenly imminent new album Powders is an eerie, minimal cover of System Of A Down’s Toxicity classic “Chop Suey!” Though prior single “Pure Smile Snake Venom” was arty electro-organic pop with a dance beat, Eartheater’s “Chop Suey!” cover turns an unhinged, herky-jerky […]
MTV VMAs 2023 Honors Diddy & Celebrates Hip Hop 50
Take that. The MTV Video Music Awards celebrated this year’s biggest music videos on Tuesday (Sep. 12) at Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey. With Nicki Minaj as host for the second consecutive year, the annual ceremony honored Diddy with this year’s Global Icon Award and celebrated Hip Hop’s 50th anniversary with an epic performance. […]
VMAs: Watch The Hip-Hop 50th Anniversary Tribute Feat. Nicki Minaj, Lil Wayne, LL Cool J, & More
All year long, the music world has been celebrating the 50th anniversary of hip-hop. Surprisingly, the Recording Academy had the most memorable tribute to the genre so far, with Questlove stringing together a generations-spanning medley that went down as one of the great Grammy moments in recent memory. Now the VMAs have staged a star-studded […]