Lil Baby, Ms. Lauryn Hill, Jazmine Sullivan, Jeezy and, in what’s billed as a “Street Legends Set,” the duo of Rick Ross and Gucci Mane lead the bill for the 12th ONE Musicfest, to be held Oct. 8-9 in and around Atlanta’s Central Park. This is the event’s second year being held in partnership with […]
It’s a big year for Lennon Kloser, who performs under the moniker Kid Bloom. He’s been making gently psychedelic indie-pop since 2016, but it wasn’t until June 3 that he released his debut album, Highway. Making an LP after years of releasing singles and EPs was new territory for Kloser. Not only was he re-introducing […]
Hidden beneath all the thumping revelry, newfound freedom, and summertime horniness of MUNA’s marvelous third album, there flows an undercurrent of irony. The Los Angeles trio released two albums, in 2017 and 2019, on RCA Records, a major label with all the resources a budding indie band could ever need to launch them into the […]
Last Friday, Bartees Strange released Farm to Table, his first album with the venerable indie label 4AD [and second overall]. Unsurprisingly, the album is great. Now, on the heels of that and a show at Los Angeles’ Getty Museum, Strange announced the dates for his first-ever headlining North American tour. The dates, which kick off with […]
Turnstile are extending their Love Connection tour with a host of fall dates featuring support from Snail Mail and JPEGMAFIA. The run resumes October 3 at Brooklyn Mirage in New York and wraps November 19 in Boston. Pre-sale tickets will be available starting tomorrow (June 22) through the band’s Web site. SPIN‘s 2021 Artist of […]
At the old Mayan Theatre in downtown Los Angeles, fans are wound up for a smoldering night of jagged, turbocharged punk and deep blues. The Kills have come to reignite the present and reflect on their past amid the room’s angular, pre-Columbian temple decor and packed dance floor. At stage left is singer Alison Mosshart, […]
Kid Cudi will play in some of his biggest venues to date this summer and fall on the newly announced To the Moon tour, which gets underway Aug. 16 in Vancouver. Don Toliver will support on all dates, with Denzel Curry and 070 Shake opening on a handful as well. Although Cudi consistently performs at […]
The ever-prolific Philadelphia indie singer/songwriter Alex G will release his eighth studio album in the past 12 years, God Save the Animals, on Sept. 23 via Domino. The album is produced by Jacob Portrait. On the heels of the recently released first single “Blessing,” the artist has unveiled another track from the project, “Runner,” accompanied […]
The Mars Volta are back. The band has shared its first new music since 2012’s Noctourniquet in the form of “Blacklight Shine,” and has also revealed dates for its first tour in a decade. “Blacklight Shine” finds Mars Volta principals Omar Rodríguez-López and Cedric Bixler-Zaval at their most accessible, as it rides a Caribbean-flavored vibe […]
Some forms of self-expression are inherently collaborative, and others are clearly a solo effort. How many photographs or paintings were made by more than one person? But music is usually, to a greater or lesser degree, a team effort. Even artists who compose and arrange alone usually then work with a producer and engineer, or […]