When I think about Atlanta, I think about the cultural movement of the early 2000s. In music, a movement represents a total paradigm shift where multiple artists are working together, collaborating, and hat tipping each other until the sum of the whole is worth more than individual parts. That’s when you have a “scene.” In […]
In an ’80s pop landscape full of enormous talents and outrageous fashions, Cyndi Lauper still managed to stand out with one of the loudest voices and biggest personalities on MTV. The Queens native looked like a thrift store come to life and incorporated professional wrestlers like Captain Lou Albano into her music videos and performances. […]
Charli xcx has let the cat out of the bag regarding her contributions to the upcoming remake of Wuthering Heights, for which her songs will also double as her next album. The first single from the project is “House” featuring 83-year-old Velvet Underground co-founder John Cale, which will be out Monday (Nov. 10). The film, […]
Now Hear This is a monthly A&R column that provides you with exciting new sounds we discovered through the innovative new music platform Groover. Each month, you can expect a varied bouillabaisse of songs from a vast spectrum of artists from all over the globe, regardless of genre or geography. In November, we hope to […]
Khruangbin offer a completely new take on their 2015 debut album, The Universe Smiles Upon You, with a re-recorded version out now digitally through Dead Oceans. Work on the project commenced on the actual 10th anniversary of sessions for the original album and was tracked in the same central Texas barn owned by guitarist Mark […]
Gorillaz lean into dub with the help of IDLES frontman Joe Talbot on “The God of Lying,” the third single from their upcoming album, The Mountain. Talbot also appears in the song’s visualizer, which can be seen below. The track was penned by Gorillaz leader Damon Albarn and Tlabot and features Ajay Prasanna on bansuri […]
After a 52-year run filled with some of the most familiar hits in mainstream rock history, Journey is calling it a career on the Final Frontier tour, which will encompass 60 North American shows beginning Feb. 28 in Hershey, Pa. Tickets go on sale to the general public on Nov. 14. “This tour is our […]
** Bass virtuoso Thundercat brings his signature style to a cover of the 1980 Diana Ross classic “Upside Down,” which is out now in collaboration with the game Candy Crush Saga and Brainfeeder. The track arrives in tandem with a playable in-game music video featuring “bursts of color” and other surprises. Fans can also obtain […]
There is a quote attributed to the late Athabascan elder and ambassador of indigenous Alaskan culture, Howard Luke. It’s about the concept of Gaalee’ya. “Gaalee’ya is a luck that you get by learning to live right with the land and the animals, including people, and everything around you, to respect everything.” We shouldn’t have to […]
Kelvin “Pos” Mercer—also known as Posdnuos or Plug One of pioneering hip-hop trio De La Soul—was flipping through television channels when he stumbled across the 1943 film Cabin in the Sky starring Lena Horne, Duke Ellington, and other jazz greats of that era. He instinctively knew that was going to be the title of the […]