The first trailer has arrived for Chance the Rapper‘s reboot of Punk’d, which premieres on new streaming platform Quibi on April 6th. In the clip, Chance, who executive produces and hosts the series, pranks everyone from Lil Nas X and Offset to Megan Thee Stallion and Ty Dolla $ign. Along …
Read More »Iceage Drop Coronavirus-Inspired Track 'Lockdown Blues'
Iceage have dropped a new single for these dark times. Titled “Lockdown Blues,” the track was inspired by being in quarantine during the coronavirus pandemic. “Covid-19 Lockdown Blues/The only way out is through,” singer Elias Rønnenfelt sings over searing guitar. “Confined domestic quarantine/How the itching for lost touch is deafening.” …
Read More »Trevor Daniel Blew Up on TikTok — Now He Wants Something Bigger
Trevor Daniel isn’t a TV critic, but the 25-year-old singer is giving it a go. Netflix’s Luke Cage receives a “bomb dude” rating, and Jessica Jones is “pretty fire.” It’s a week before the release of Daniel’s major-label debut, Nicotine, and instead of doing a press run in New York …
Read More »'In My Room' With Nathaniel Rateliff
Nathaniel Rateliff began the month of March kicking off his tour in support of And It’s Still Alright, his first solo album in seven years. Within weeks, his tour had been put on hold, as musicians around the country found themselves heading home and cancelling tours as the coronavirus pandemic …
Read More »Crudo Means Raw's 'Novena' Is An Impressive Fusion
Fernando Bustamante, who raps and produces as Crudo Means Raw, is finely attuned to the power of the loop. Both his viral hit “La Mitad De La Mitad” and the follow-up “Maria” gained much of their undeniable energy from funky, circular bass fillips. But on his new track “Novena,” Bustamante …
Read More »John Oliver Blasts Conservatives Touting Markets Over Lives During COVID-19 Pandemic
John Oliver examined the mounting coronavirus catastrophe and President Donald Trump‘s handling of it on a new quarantine edition of Last Week Tonight Sunday. In just a few weeks, the United States has become the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak, and as Oliver noted, we still don’t know just how …
Read More »Hear Eminem Join Jessie Reyez on Album Cut 'COFFIN'
Jessie Reyez has dropped her debut album, Before Love Came to Kill Us, and it includes a collaboration with Eminem. The rapper joins Reyez on “COFFIN,” a slow burning, conflicted love song, which is the only feature on the album. Eminem jumps on a verse midway through the track, spitting, …
Read More »Indie Songwriters Make Great Albums By Giving Their Music a Synth-y Reboot
Margaret Glaspy, Devotion **** Caroline Rose, Superstar, ***1/2 Margaret Glaspy’s second album begins with a brief jolt of vocoder that recalls the statement-making opening to “Oh, What a World,” a highlight from Kacey Musgraves’ 2018 album Golden Hour. Musgraves’ synth-country blockbuster provided a template for how roots-based songwriters can strive …
Read More »Nine Inch Nails Surprise-Release Album Sequels to 'Ghosts' Series
Nine Inch Nails have surprise-released a pair of sequels to the band’s 2008 instrumental series Ghosts:Ghosts V: Together and Ghosts VI: Locusts. It’s all available to download viathe NIN website. “Weird times indeed… As the news seems to turn ever more grim by the hour, we’ve found ourselves vacillating wildly …
Read More »Stuart Gordon, 'Re-Animator' Director, Dead at 72
Stuart Gordon — the horror-film director who helmed the cult classic Re-Animator and co-created the Honey, I Shrunk the Kids franchise — has died at the age of 72. Gordon’s wife Carolyn Purdy-Gordon confirmed her husband’s death to Variety. No cause of death was revealed. Over a film career that …
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