Jennifer Lopez, Cardi B and DJ Khaled take luxury to new extremes in the new video for “Dinero.” The Joseph Khan-directed clip is shot in black-and-white and puts a humorous spin on high-class life, with Lopez, in the opening moments, rolling a diamond-studded bowling ball down the hall of a …
Read More »See Tami Neilson's Melancholy 'Manitoba Sunrise at Motel 6' Video
With New Zealand as her home base, singer-songwriter Tami Neilson spends a fair portion of her working life with an ocean separating her from family. The powerhouse vocalist, a native of Canada, deals with the subject in “Manitoba Sunrise at Motel 6,” which now has a melancholy video to accompany …
Read More »FYF Fest Announces My Bloody Valentine, Stephen Malkmus Makeup Shows
FYF Fest, which organizers canceled earlier this month, has announced makeup shows for several of the acts originally booked to perform at the event. The long-running festival, which was to celebrate its 15th anniversary, had been scheduled to take place on July 21st and 22nd at Exposition Park in Los …
Read More »Artist You Need to Know: Saweetie
Buried in some corner of YouTube is a video of Bay Area rapper Saweetie circa 2012 stanning for J. Cole outside a concert venue’s backdoor. She’s patient while her favorite rapper – the one whose mixtapes, burned for her by a friend, made her fall in love with music – …
Read More »Inside Cumbia's New Wave: Raymix Leads Resurgence of Classic Genre
Edmundo Gómez Moreno spent 11 months as a project manager and systems engineer helping NASA build nano-satellites in Mexico. But in 2015, he could not find a job in the U.S. “I had letters of support from NASA, from the Mexican consulate, the managers from Lockheed Martin, all stating my …
Read More »Hear Dawes' Dreamy New Ballad 'Crack the Case'
Indie roots-rockers Dawes slip on their thinking caps for the new track “Crack the Case,” a cool-and-collected taste of their upcoming sixth album, Passwords, out June 22nd. Presented as a retro-future lyric video with its storyline scrolling across a space-race era computer console, the track appears to be asking one …
Read More »Donald Glover's 'This Is America' Is a Nightmare We Can't Look Away From
Donald Glover may be done making things for you to enjoy. His newest single as Childish Gambino, “This is America,” joins the second season of his FX series, Atlanta (“Robbin’ Season”), in showcasing a darker, more sinister vision than anything he’s done before. Both works take his audience on a …
Read More »Watch Mark Ronson Open Up About Teenage Panic Attacks
Mark Ronson opens up about his teenage struggle with a panic disorder in an intimate homemade video as part of the Child Mind Institute‘s 2018 #MyYoungerSelf social media campaign. “When I was 14 or 15, I started to get these pretty heavy panic attacks for the first time,” the writer-producer …
Read More »Kanye West Says 400 Years of Slavery 'Sounds Like a Choice'
The same day that Kanye West released a reflective two-hour interview with Charlamagne the God, he also visited TMZ for a live interview that appeared to be wildly different. The rapper drew tremendous ire for his flippant comments about the history of American slavery. “When you hear about slavery for …
Read More »Janelle Monae Talks Enlisting Brian Wilson for 'Dirty Computer' Album
Janelle Monáe recruited stars from the worlds of indie (Grimes) and hip-hop (Pharrell) to contribute to her new album Dirty Computer. But the very first collaborator that appears on the LP is none other than Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys. “Do you know how much of an honor it …
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