Three months after Joyride, Tinashe is back with a surprise new single “Like I Used To,” which the singer dropped onto digital music services Friday. The lyrics find Tinashe ruminating on the tail end of a relationship over a sleek, shimmery beat, with fans already speculating whether the single is …
Read More »See Lucero's Home Movies in New 'For the Lonely Ones' Video
Lucero have been in the game for a solid 20 years at this point. As the Memphis ensemble prepares to celebrate their second decade as band with a new LP, Among the Ghosts, they track a trip down memory lane and pull out some old camcorder footage for the nostalgic …
Read More »Watch Black Eyed Peas Show ICE Raids, Police Killings in 'Get It' Video
The Black Eyed Peas survey the chaos in America’s streets in the politically charged video for new song “Get It.” “Get It” is a sparse, haunting cut and the Ben Mor-directed clip reflects the track’s eerie undertones. In the video, the camera moves down a city block, capturing a violent …
Read More »Hear Colter Wall's Cover of Wilf Carter's 'Calgary Round-Up'
Colter Wall‘s music often feels like it’s ripped from the lives of forgotten people from decades and even centuries past, and his latest release is exactly that – for many American fans, anyway. “Calgary Round-Up” sees the Canadian singer-songwriter tackling a signature tune by one of his home country’s seminal …
Read More »Drake Was Once R&B's Savior. On 'Scorpion,' He Returns to the Genre He Reinvented
As news that Drake‘s Scorpion would be a double album swept around the internet this week, it was quickly followed by a tantalizing rumor – one of the two LPs would be rap, while the other would be entirely R&B. Drake became a star by mixing these forms; now he …
Read More »Sasquatch! Music Festival Will Not Return in 2019
Sasquatch! Music Festival will not be taking place in 2019, Willamette Week reports. Founder Adam Zacks announced the news on Thursday. “Today we take a bow and bid farewell to Sasquatch!,” Zacks said in a statement. “I will no longer be producing the festival, nor will it take place in …
Read More »Inside the Labels Where Kanye West Finds Many of His Best Samples
“I gotta say, when it comes down to discovering weird samples, that dude’s kind of all over it,” says Now Again Records founder Eothen “Egon” Alapatt of Kanye West, the superstar producer who’s dropped five sample-soaked releases in the past five weeks. “He has a lot of help, of course, …
Read More »Kanye West: Pressure to Vote Hillary Clinton Felt Like 'Arranged Marriage'
Kanye West defended himselfin a wide-ranging New York Times profileamid the backlash for his support of President Trump and his controversial comment that slavery “sounds like a choice.” Attempting to frame his Trump endorsement in a wider context, he compared what he felt was a societal pressure to vote Democrat …
Read More »Morbid Angel's 'Covenant' at 25: Death Metal's First Major Label LP
In 1992, music-industry legend Irving Azoff went out for ice cream with Gunter Ford, manager of the Florida death-metal band Morbid Angel, to discuss a possible signing. “The actual negotiations took 10 minutes,” Ford told author Albert Mudrian in the extreme-metal history Choosing Death. “Irving asked me what kind of …
Read More »Cardi B and Offset: A Hip-Hop Love Story
One humid afternoon in Atlanta, Cardi B, the new princess of hip-hop, wakes up in an endless white mansion flanked by tall trees. This is her fiancé’s castle – he’s Offset from Migos – and there are enough six-figure cars parked outside to form a small-town parade. By the curved …
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