For a very, very long time, A$AP Rocky has been promising a new album called Don’t Be Dumb. His last LP was the divisive Testing, which came out way back in May 2018. After years of teasing, Don’t Be Dumb was originally slated for an August 2024 release date, which was pushed back after the […]
Nick Cave & Warren Ellis Release The Death Of Bunny Munro Soundtrack
In 2009, Nick Cave published The Death Of Bunny Munro, a darkly comic novel about a sex-addicted salesman. I read it for work, and I hated it. When The Death Of Bunny Munro first came out, Cave and his frequent collaborator Warren Ellis scored the audiobook. Now, The Death Of Bunny Munro has been adapted […]
Pinkshift – “Snow”
The emotive Baltimore punks Pinkshift released their album Earthkeeper earlier this year, and the followed it by releasing the single “Authority Problem” and a live cover of Slipknot’s “Eyeless.” Now, we’re getting one last Pinkshift track before the year is out. It’s a pretty, shimmery, largely acoustic song called “Snow.” I don’t know whether it […]
Yo La Tengo & Norah Jones Cover Randy Newman & Bob Dylan At Hanukkah Show
Allow me to pull the curtain back on the way that this particular website operates during the holidays. Once we finalize all our year-end lists, things tend to get way slower around here, and Scott lets us take most of late December off. But someone is always working. Scott is always working, pretty much for […]
The 10 Best Experimental Albums Of 2025
The Agnes Varda of deep listening returns with another piece of intimate audio vérité, a two-CD headphone collage made from recordings of her mother’s final four months. Here, Rossetto’s mom tells stories, but they are fractured, overlapped, and rendered indecipherable — distorted like memory itself. Life is painted by snatches of conversations, radio, street musicians, […]
Recording Academy Announces Lifetime Achievement Grammys For Fela Kuti, Paul Simon, Cher, More
Every year, the Recording Academy hands out a handful of Lifetime Achievement Grammys. Some of the recipients are alive to get the award, and some are not. The Academy has unveiled the list of next year’s honorees, and it includes legendary figures like Fela Kuti, Paul Simon, Cher, Chaka Khan, and Whitney Houston. Two of […]
SZA Performs At LA Crystal Shop, TDE Holiday Show With Kendrick Lamar
Ultra-famous superfriends SZA and Kendrick Lamar spent most of 2025 on what amounts to one long victory lap together. They played the Super Bowl. Their song “Luther” topped the Hot 100 for months, and the two of them took their stadium show all over the world. (I caught the Raleigh date, and it was great.) […]
Cameron Winter Gives Chicago New Song, Gets Photo Ops With Debbie Harry And Jeff Tweedy
It’s Cameron Winter Winter. You already knew this. Geese’s Getting Killed is the critical-consensus album of the year, and it’s topping all kinds of year-end lists, including ours. Winter’s solo debut Heavy Metal is also placing high on lots of year-end lists, even though it technically came out last year. (Maybe last winter was Cameron […]
Paul McCartney Mourns Höfner, Maker Of His Iconic Bass
Ever since the early Beatles days, Paul McCartney’s signature instrument has been the Höfner 500/1 violin bass guitar. In 1961, an 18-year-old McCartney bought the instrument in Hamburg for £30. That was McCartney’s primary instrument for the Beatles’ entire run. His bass was stolen in 1972, and it was returned to him more than 50 […]
Kennedy Center Is Being Renamed Trump-Kennedy Center
Donald Trump is renaming the Kennedy Center after himself. The John F. Kennedy Center For The Performing Arts, better known as the Kennedy Center, will know be known as the Donald J. Trump And The John F. Kennedy Memorial Center For The Performing Arts. Trump put his own name first and everything. White House press […]