UPDATE: DaBaby issues a new statement apologizing. DaBaby was removed from the Lollapalooza lineup at the last minute on Sunday (8/1), and removed from Governors Ball today, following homophobic comments he made while onstage at Miami’s Rolling Loud in July.… Read More
John Glacier’s confessional dictaphone raps sound like intimate notes to self, intended for one listener only. She writes to untangle her mind. “Got weed for the low times too/What’s low times two? I dunno/Double negative makes a positive, or so… Read More
This week in hip hop we got the anticipated new Isaiah Rashad album (which you can read about in Notable Releases), plus albums from Dave East & Harry Fraud, Young Dolph & Paper Route Empire, Toosii, Tink, and more. We… Read More
The 2021 edition of Lollapalooza continued as scheduled on Friday (7/30), but public concern over COVID cases in Cook County and the country continues, and now for Saturday, the festival will begin requiring masks be worn by attendees, regardless of… Read More
Raytheon Technologies wants to wish you a Happy Pride. The defense conglomerate and military contractor is on a mission to “celebrate and uplift [its] LGBTQ+ employees.” So is Axon, a taser and body cam manufacturer. So is Uber—did you know… Read More
Vancouver collective Crack Cloud made one of the best debuts of 2020 with Pain Olympics, a phantasmagoric, post-apocalyptic dancerock epic that crackles with creative energy. If you haven’t checked it out, you can listen to the whole thing below, and… Read More
Throwing Muses‘ Kristin Hersh will be on tour in November, including Northeast solo dates in NYC, Philly and Boston, and West Coast dates with her electric trio, including San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, and Seattle. All dates are listed… Read More
New Orleans duo $uicideboy$ toured in 2019 with a genre-defying and seriously awesome mix of openers. They’ve now announced a new leg of that tour, the Grey Day Tour 2021, running from September through November in the US, with another… Read More
Camp Cope’s Georgia Maq went in a lo-fi bedroom synthpop direction on her 2019 solo album Pleaser, and now she has gone pop pop with her new song “Someone Stranger,” a collaboration with producer Alice Ivy. “Alice Ivy and I… Read More
Saint Etienne will release their 10th album, I’ve Been Trying To Tell You, on September 10 via Heavenly Records. (Bob Stanley told us it would be coming sooner than later and he was not kidding.) It’s an unusual album for… Read More