Former Runaways frontwoman Cherie Currie will digitally release her long-awaited, star-studded album, Blvds of Splendor, via former Runaways guitarist Joan Jett’s Blackheart Records on April 28th. The album previously came out as a vinyl-only release for Record Store Day last year, but didn’t get a wide release; the digital version …
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The Weeknd has shared a new XO-directed visual for “Until I Bleed Out,” from his latest album, After Hours. The clip sees the Weeknd at a drugged-up, confetti-covered party in an old movie palace. As he struggles to stand upright amid all the technicolor papier-mache, he finds that the ground …
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Charli XCX is keeping herself busy this quarantine by recording a whole new album — and she needs your help. The British pop star announced in a video on Monday that she’ll be releasing the LP, with the working title: How I’m Feeling Now, on May 15th, and that she’ll …
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Ed O’Brien dropped a psychedelic new track titled “Olympik,” the third single off the Radiohead guitarist’s upcoming solo debut Earth, out April 17th via Capitol Records. The track meticulously shifts along a tight groove, courtesy of drummer Omar Hakim and Nathan East on bass. “Kaleidoscope will start to spin/Shaking up …
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Pacific Coliseum specializes in a particularly plush strain of electronic music, with synthesizers as pretty and orderly as Zen gardens. “Ridge Walk” and “Sunset,” which appeared on last year’s Blue Universe album, have the sweeping grandeur and tear-jerking allure of the some of the best synth-fueled Eighties movie scores, while …
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Todd Rundgren and an all-star crew are re-recording his 1973 anthem “Just One Victory” and giving it away for free to Democrats all over America running for public office this year. It’s still early in the process, but Joe Walsh, Daryl Hall, and Paul Shaffer have already pledged to join …
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Boy bands have always known their way around a good double entendre (see Backstreet Boys’ “Get Down” or O-Town’s “Liquid Dreams”) but when ‘NSync released their sophomore album, No Strings Attached,in March of 2000, one song stood out for seemingly bucking the subtlety trend. Tucked away in the middle of …
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James Blake played a solo rendition of Radiohead‘s “No Surprises” on Monday, tackling the OK Computer anthem during a livestreamed Instagram performance. The singer-songwriter — a noted Radiohead fan who previously covered In Rainbows‘ “Videotape” onstage — magnified the song’s melancholy core with his stripped-down take. Over rich piano chords, …
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Common delivered a set as part of Global Citizen and the World Health Organization’s ongoing ‘Together at Home’ concert series from his living room on Thursday. “This ‘Together at Home’ thing I got really excited about because, you know for me, when a lot is going on, in the world …
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Lil Uzi Vert released his long-awaited sophomore album,Eternal Atake, last Friday. It quickly became the most popular album in the country, competing with the first-week numbers of artists like BTS and Justin Bieber. What’s more, it was the dynamic young rapper’s best work to date, a blisteringly charming and musically …
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