So, you’ve started to put the finishing touches on your tracks, and now you ideally want more than just your friends and family to know about you and hear it. The world firstly needs to know who you are. In order for that to happen, you need to create an artist brand. Think of it
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After college, Smith was drafted by the Cincinnati Bengals and earned a master’s degree from Goddard College. In 1972 he took a job as the assistant director of athletics at Oberlin College, the first coeducational college in the U.S. and the first white institution to admit black students. Smith was hired by the school’s new
The first lines on Phil Elverum‘s latest project, Microphones in 2020, arrive almost seven minutes into the album: “The true state of all things: I keep on not dying, the sun keeps on rising.” Despite comparing memories from his past to “dreams that I don’t trust” immediately after, the singer-songwriter goes on to excavate details
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Muse have announced a companion film to their 2018 LP Simulation Theory. Part concert film and part narrative movie, it was directed by previous collaborator Lance Drake and follows a group of scientists who “investigate the source of a paranormal anomaly appearing around the world,” according to a press release. The concert portion of the
Rap music is a problem for Hamill, emblematic of a nihilistic nation rapidly spiraling into the gutter. This was a common, typically white, lament of the era, a hatred of a new kind of art quickly gaining dominance. The music is alien to him, too violent and strange, and therefore a cheap symbol of decline.
In the world of Instagram, it can be so easy to get caught up in what’s trending, what’s the most popular, and what’s the most loved. In the world of fashion, big names like Gucci, Louis Vuitton, and Saint Laurent, are almost always at the forefront of fashion headlines. However, more than just a place
Sylvan Esso have shared a new single from their upcoming album titled ‘Rooftop Dancing’. The bright, heartwarming new track arrives with an accompanying video directed and produced by Cheryl Dunn. Check it out below. “Sunlight beaming out over the bridge/ We’re all running, outrunning death,” Amelia Meath sings atop tender electronics. “Summertime breaking but we’re
New Zealand pop singer BENEE is back with a new single titled ‘Snail’. Check it out below, alongside a colourful lyric video. “When we were in lockdown, I was fascinated by snails,” Benee explains in a statement. “There wasn’t really a lot to be doing, so I would spend a lot of time outside looking
In 2014, as they neared a vote on who would be the next executive director of their union, dozens of NBA player representatives and members of the executive committee convened at Aria in Las Vegas to interview a few finalists. David West attended in an advisory role, and his main focus was to question the
Throughout the week, we update our Best New Songs playlist with the new releases that caught our attention the most, be it a single leading up to the release of an album or a newly unveiled deep cut. And each Monday, we round up the best new songs released over the past week (the eligibility period
Like a number of great albums, Fontaines D.C.‘s A Hero’s Death begins with a thesis and ends with an emotional credence. The brooding incantation on the opening track ‘I Don’t Belong’ is as familiar to the post-punk genre as any: “I don’t belong to anyone,” frontman Grian Chatten proclaims again and again over a slow-burning instrumental.
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British newcomers Black Country, New Rock have shared a cover of Weezer’s ‘Say It Ain’t So’. The band were supposed to perform at the Haldern Pop Festival in Germany this summer, but as the festival was cancelled due the coronavirus pandemic, its organizers are hosting a series of Saturday Pop concerts instead, livestreamed from the
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SASAMI‘s self-titled debut LP, released last year, saw Sasami Ashworth coming into her own as a songwriter. A classically trained French horn player who’s scored orchestral arrangements for films and commercials, she’s spent years making a name for herself in the LA music scene, joining Cherry Glazer in 2015 in addition to touring alongside the
Do you think the “neutral platform” argument is made in bad faith? No. And I don’t want Facebook determining the boundaries of fair and legitimate speech. But we need to start breaking the problem down. I don’t really know what that looks like. But I think it’s a crisis that they can’t address without completely
blink-182 have shared a new song called ‘Quarantine’. Evidently written over the past few months, the track was recorded by longtime members Mark Hoppus and Travis Barker and co-written by Brian Lee, with no involvement from singer/guitarist Matt Skiba, who replaced Tom DeLonge in 2015, Exclaim reports. Listen to it below. “Quarantine, f*ck this disease,”
Courtney Barnett has released an acoustic cover of Indigenous Australian singer-songwriter Kev Carmody’s ‘Just For You’. It’s taken from a tribute album of Carmody’s songs titled Cannot Buy My Soul, which was originally released in 2007 and will be reissued with new songs on August 21 through EMI Australia, featuring Jimmy Barnes, Kasey Chambers, Kate
DYLYN Find Myself Firstly on our Sound Selection, we have Find Myself by the terrifically talented DYLYN. The song itself envelops the raw, catchy, rock-style DYLYN has shaped since her debut EP Sauvignon and a Kimono, back in 2018. For the song, DYLYN worked alongside Ryan Guldemond who is known for being the member of Indie rock band Mother Mother.
Of course, not all big men are the same and the criticisms of skill doesn’t fall on them all alike, which gets to the idea of what is considered skill and what isn’t. Kevin Durant is almost a 7-footer, but being one of the best shooters ever, he’s never been criticized for a lack of
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Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion have joined forces on a new collaborative track titled ‘WAP’. Check it out below, alongside an accompanying music video featuring cameos from Kylie Jenner, Normani, Rosalía, Rubi Rose, Sukihana, and Mulatto. Cardi noted on Instagram that this is the censored version of the ‘WAP’ video. “The song was so
The Last Dinosaur, the project of artist Jamie Cameron, has revealed a new single named Wholeness and the Implicate Order, just today. Talking about the song The Last Dinosaur stated “This piece began it’s life in 2012 and was finally finished this year. A collaboration between me, Luke Hayden (piano), Rachel Lanskey (viola) and Lewis
This is Wait, What?, a column that explains the seemingly incomprehensible. Just as the sun must rise and set, just as the tides must ebb and flow, so too must YouTube enfant terrible Jake Paul be embroiled in a new controversy. This time, however, the consequences may be more severe than merely getting fired from
Kate Tempest has announced they will be changing their name to Kae Tempest. From now on, they will be using the pronouns they/them, the rapper and poet revealed on social media. “It’s pronounced like the letter K,” Kae wrote. “It’s an old English word that means Jay bird. Jays are associated with communication, curiosity, adaptation
Filipino-British indie artist beabadoobee has revealed that her debut album Fake It Flowers will arrive on October 16th through Dirty Hit. The 12-track LP will include the previously released single ‘Care’ and the newly unveiled ‘Sorry’, which comes with a brooding visual directed by longtime collaborators bedroom. Check it out below, and scroll for the album’s
Expectations were high for Alanis Morissette‘s ninth album, Such Pretty Forks In the Road: not only because it marks her first album in eight years, but also because the shadow of her landmark LP, Jagged Little Pill, still looms large. With a musical version having debuted at Broadway last year and the 25th anniversary deluxe
I wasn’t sure about the new Perry Mason, a reboot of the classic series about a masterful defense lawyer who could get anyone to confess on the stand. I wasn’t sure, when I saw the trailer, if it would end up leaning too heavily on the noir signifiers. (You call legs “gams,” we get it!)
Mush, a magnificent post-punk band out of Leeds, has released their latest song Dead Beat. The song comes after the release of their debut album 3D Routine, which was released earlier this year. The album included arguably their most successful song Revising My Fee. Mush will also be following up with a five-track EP named Great Artisanal