Following the surprise release last year of an 18-track solo album, Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party, Paramore frontwoman Hayley Williams appears to have formed another new band dubbed Power Snatch. Its debut release, EP1, is available now on Bandcamp and [untitled]. Williams is flanked in Power Snatch by producer Daniel James, who also lent […]
Arlo Parks offers another alluring slice of electronica-forward, bass-heavy pop on “Heaven,” the second single to emerge from her April 3 album Ambiguous Desire. The song was inspired by watching friend Kelly Lee Owens DJ a pop-up show with Caribou under the Sixth Street Viaduct in Los Angeles in November 2024. “Adidas and gasoline / […]
Audrey McGraw and Toni Cornell are the guests on the latest installment of the Lipps Service podcast, speaking with host Scott Lipss about a friendship born in a jewelry shop in Greece, growing up in backstages around the world and finding their own creative voices alongside their famous fathers Tim and Chris, respectively. McGraw pens up about […]
Bad Bunny took him Album of the Year honors — the first ever for a Latin artist — for Debí Tirar Más Fotos to cap an entertaining and outspoken night at the 68th Grammy Awards in Los Angeles. The Puerto Rican superstar gave an impassioned speech against recent ICE immigration raids earlier in the evening, […]
Some 50 years into their storied career, Robert Smith and the Cure have won their first Grammys ever during the Premiere Ceremony of the 2026 event today (Feb. 1) in Los Angeles. The group took home Best Alternative Music Album for its first full-length in 16 years, 2024’s Songs of a Lost World, and Best […]
Bruce Springsteen made a surprise appearance this afternoon (Jan. 30) in Minneapolis during a Tom Morello-organized daytime benefit concert for the families of slain protestors Renee Good and Alex Pretti, during which he live debuted his just-released protest song, “Streets of Minneapolis,” and then dusted off his 1995 track “The Ghost of Tom Joad” for […]
Netflix will explore the early period of the Red Hot Chili Peppers career in the aptly named documentary The Rise of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, which will premiere March 20. Per Variety, the film will focus on the formative role of original guitarist Hillel Slovak, who died of a drug overdose in 1988. The […]
Thundercat will roar back on April 3 with his fifth album, Distracted, which will arrive exactly six years since its predecessor, It Is What It Is. The Greg Kurstin-produced project is led by first single “I Did This to Myself,” which features Lil Yachty. Other high profile guests on the Brainfeeder album include A$AP Rocky, […]
My Morning Jacket has unveiled an album of 14 acoustic recordings on Bandcamp dubbed Peacelands, proceeds from which will benefit the American Civil Liberties Union, Doctors Without Borders and the International Rescue Committee. The project was recorded in Los Angeles with producer Shawn Everett and includes a blend of originals (“I’m Amazed,” “State of the […]
** Beck has dropped a surprise digital release dubbed Everybody’s Gotta Learn Sometime, which rounds up six previously released singles, soundtrack cuts and covers in tandem with unheard original recordings of Hank Williams’ “Your Cheatin’ Heart” and Daniel Johnston’s “True Love Will Find You in the End.” The project will be released on opaque red […]