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Strand of Oaks has shared the third single from his forthcoming record In Heaven, which comes out October 1 via Thirty Tigers. It’s called ‘Somewhere in Chicago’, and it follows previous entries ‘Jimi & Stan’ and ‘Galacticana’ (which was our Song of the Week). Give the track a listen below. “My ode to the late

Read a chapter from the rapper’s new memoir This Bright Future, where he details the emotional toll his first hit song took on him. By Bobby Hall September 2, 2021 Logic and his son.Courtesy of Bobby Hall. I wasn’t patient. Every mixtape and every album, I was trying every angle I could think of to

In this segment, we showcase the most notable albums out each week. Here are the albums out on September 3, 2021: Drake, Certified Lover Boy Drake has released his new album Certified Lover Boy. The 21-track LP, Drake’s sixth proper album and his first since 2018’s Scorpion, was first announced last August and was originally set

allie is the moniker of Nashville-based musician Allie Cuva. After spending time in various musical projects and being recruited as the touring/session drummer for Cavetown, Cuva (who uses they/them pronouns) returned from touring with a sense of creative restlessness that inspired the 2020 EP Junior Coder’s Experiment, a collection of stripped-back but not quite lo-fi

David Crosby has announced a deluxe reissue of his solo debut If I Could Only Remember My Name. The double-disc 50th anniversary edition of the album, which is out October 15, will include more than a dozen previously unreleased demos and alternate takes. To accompany the announcement, Crosby has shared the previously unreleased demo ‘Riff

Inspired by his beloved mother, Kanye’s 10th album falls short of a homecoming. By Stephen Kearse August 31, 2021 Gunner Stahl / Courtesy of DONDA In 2007, at a Chicago State University conference honoring poet Gwendolyn Brooks, Donda West spoke about raising her son. Swelling with pride and quoting lyrics from The College Dropout, the

It was meant to be a simple father-and-son trip to the desert. But the looming threat of climate change—and the more pressing dangers of heatstroke and falling rocks—made it something more. By Will Bahr September 1, 2021 Collage by Simon Abranowicz; Getty Images I miss my flight to the Grand Canyon. It’s ten days before

Born in Greenwich, Connecticut and raised in rural Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Madi Diaz grew up surrounded by music. She was homeschooled by her Peruvian mother and studied piano with her Danish father, who played in various prog bands, before switching to guitar and exploring songwriting during her teens. While a student at Berklee College of

American grindcore band Full of Hell have previewed their forthcoming album Garden of Burning Apparitions with a new track titled ‘Reeking Tunnels’, which follows recent single ‘Industrial Messiah Complex’. Check it out below. “‘Reeking Tunnels’ is the foil to the cacophonous blasting on either side,” bandleader Dylan Walker remarked in a press release. “Channeling CopShootCop

The icon of global cinema stars in an American film—and comes to the Marvel universe—for the first time. By Alexander Chee Photography by Isaac Lam August 31, 2021 Jacket, $2,990, and shirt, $990, by Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello. When they first met to discuss casting what would become the latest Marvel movie, Shang-Chi and

Runnner, a.k.a. Noah Weinman, has shared a new song, ‘Snowplow’, featuring fellow LA singer-songwriter Helen Ballentine of Skullcrusher. The collaboration is a reworking of ‘Urgent Care’, from Runnner’s debut LP Always Repeating. Give it a listen below. Weinman co-produced Bellentine’s self-titled debut Skullcrusher EP, which landed on our Best EPs of 2020 list. Runnner and Skullcrusher are

The title of Villagers’ fifth record, Fever Dreams, may imply a listening experience that leaves you feeling under the weather, but the effect created by lead musician Conor O’Brien is quite the opposite: each track brims with the energy of pirouetting keys and ebullient saxophone solos. Spanning the last decade and earning him an Ivor

The man who helped invent modern NYC nightlife faces new challenges—Covid, Brooklyn—with aplomb and plenty of dancing. By Tim Latterner August 27, 2021 Collage by Simon Abranowicz; Photograph Sean Zanni; Getty Images It’s just past midnight when the front door of Paul’s Casablanca swings open to reveal a man wearing a dark suit and a

Lee “Scratch” Perry, the Jamaican dub and reggae legend, has died at the age of 85, as the Jamaica Observer and The Guardian report. He passed away at Noel Holmes Hospital in Lucea, Jamaica on Sunday morning. No cause of death has been revealed. Perry was born in the village of Kendal in Jamaica in

Earlier today (August 29), Kanye West‘s much-delayed album Donda finally arrived on streaming services, a couple of days after his third listening party at Soldier Field in Chicago. But now, West says the album was released without his permission, writing in a post on his Instagram account: “UNIVERSAL PUT MY ALBUM OUT WITHOUT MY APPROVAL AND THEY

Kanye West has finally released his much-delayed album Donda. The record was unveiled today following the rapper’s third listening party in Chicago this Thursday, which featured appearances from Marilyn Manson and DaBaby, who also replaced a previous guest verse from Jay-Z. Donda also includes guest spots from the Weeknd, Jay Electronica, the Lox, Young Thug, the

The rapper ended his radio silence on Keem’s new track “family ties”. By Frazier Tharpe August 27, 2021 Kendrick Lamar in “family ties.”Courtesy of pgLang. Kendrick Lamar has been out of office for a full presidential term at this point—his last studio album, DAMN., dropped in April 2017. In 2018 he oversaw the Black Panther

The one place in your home that should give you the feeling of relaxation is your bedroom. Sure, your lounge is going to have a similar effect, but you sleep in the bedroom and that’s where you should feel safest and most comfortable. With a safe and beautiful bedroom, you will be able to sit

If you enjoy watching your movies on big screens, the only thing better than catching a blockbuster at your favorite movie theatre is doing it with your dog. Fortunately, hundreds of modern movie theaters are pet-friendly. They are happy to let your service dog in.  Service dogs are allowed into almost all public spaces, including

Danish blackgaze outfit MØL have released a new song, ‘Serf’, taken from their forthcoming LP Diorama. The track follows lead single ‘Photophobic’, which came out last month. Listen to ‘Serf’ below. Diorama, the follow-up to MØL’s 2018 album Jord, is due out November 5 via Nuclear Blast. “Writing our debut Jord seemed like the culmination of our first two

The latest iteration of the album, offered up in Kanye’s hometown at Soldier Field, has a few highs, and lots of baffling decisions. By Frazier Tharpe August 27, 2021 DaBaby, Kanye West, and Marilyn Manson at Soldier Fielder for the Donda version 3 listening event.MEGA Jay-Z once famously compared his discography to a Rubik’s Cube,

In Indigo De Souza’s music, everything can take the form of a revelation. Nihilistic thoughts can become mantras; songs about the darkest of subjects can become sing-along anthems. On her new album Any Shape You Take, the Asheville, North Carolina-based songwriter expands on the introspective, idiosyncratic qualities of her 2018 debut I Love My Mom,

Kim Petras is back with a new single, ‘Future Starts Now’, the first preview of her forthcoming debut studio album. The singer recently debuted the track during her performance at Lollapalooza in Chicago. Check it out below. Petras said of the new single, “I felt so anxious at the start of lockdown, because for me