Ghostface Killah brings fresh verses to a classic Wu-Tang Clan beat on a new version of Nicole Bus’ breakout single “You.” The track utilizes the same soul sample – The Charmels’ “As Long As I Got You” – that served as the foundation of Enter the Wu-Tang: 36 Chambers‘ classic …
Read More »Lauv, Troye Sivan Are Sick of Love Songs on 'I'm So Tired…'
Lauv and Troye Sivan try to get over both a break-up and love songs on their new track, “I’m So Tired…” The snappy cut finds the two singers unspooling lovesick verses about getting over an impossible-to-forget ex, and an equally inescapable song. Sivan throws in references to tracks like Coldplay’s …
Read More »Future's Lo-Fi 'Rocket Ship' Video Features Disturbing Chicken Cameo
Future’s “Rocket Ship” is less music video, more extended Instagram clip. In under two minutes, the rapper does what he does best: look effortlessly cool as he brags about his drug-making prowess, selling said drugs and stealing your girl in the process. While the video isn’t exactly complex, the Uncle …
Read More »Third Man Records Adds Mastering Studio to Detroit Complex
In the last decade, Jack White‘s Third Man Records has expanded from a small Nashville record store to a “Rolling Record” truck store, a second Detroit location, a pressing plant and more. “One day, I want this place to be like what I had heard about Henry Ford wanted for …
Read More »R. Kelly's Estranged Daughter Calls Him a 'Monster' in New Statement
R. Kelly‘s estranged daughter, Buku Abi (given name Joann Kelly), has spoken out about her father in an Instagram story posted on Thursday, E! News reports. Her emotional statement followed the airing of Lifetime’s Surviving R. Kellydocuseries last week, where several of the singer’s alleged sexual assault victims and others …
Read More »King Krule's New Video Follows a One-Eyed Alien Through the Desert
King Krule issued a trippy stop-motion animation video for “Logos,” a track from his acclaimed second LP, 2017’s The Ooz. The musician’s brother, visual artist Jack Marshall, created the hazy clip, which follows a one-eyed extraterrestrial through a shifting desert landscape filled with crocodiles, randomly sprouting trees, smoking crescent moons …
Read More »Hear Ex Hex's Surging New Song 'Cosmic Cave,' From First LP in Five Years
Ex Hex will issue their first LP in five years, It’s Real, on March 22nd via Merge Records. The indie-rock trio teased the album – which follows their acclaimed debut, 2014’s Rips – with its surging lead single, “Cosmic Cave.”The group offer a psychedelic edge to the jangly power-pop track, …
Read More »'Surviving R. Kelly': See Clips From New Episodes Centered on Sex Tape Trial
The infamous “pee tape” that allegedly captured R. Kelly urinating on an underage female and the singer’s subsequent child pornography trial form the center of the next episodes of the explosive Lifetime docuseries Surviving R. Kelly, with those who knew the 14-year-old in the sex tape speaking out in these …
Read More »Rivers Cuomo Loves That 'SNL' Weezer Sketch, Even Though He Hasn't Seen It
On Saturday, December 15th, Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo got a text with some exciting news: The band’s manager, who happened to be in the audience at Saturday Night Live that day — “total coincidence,” Cuomo says — had learned that the show was preparing to air an entire sketch about …
Read More »Watch Alessia Cara's Stripped-Down Take on Ariana Grande's 'Breathin'
While at BBC Radio 1, Alessia Cara debuted a powerful piano cover of Ariana Grande‘s Sweetener single “Breathin.” Cara released her sophomore album The Pains of Growing in November. Grande’s original version was a much bigger pop production, while Cara’s take on the single strips it down to its emotional core and tale …
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