James Rettig

“Weird Al” Yankovic has a new original song called “Scarif Beach Party” featured in the upcoming animated Disney+ special LEGO Star Wars Summer Vacation. A new trailer for the special has just been released, which includes a preview of “Scarif Beach Party” and a look at a Lego-fied Weird Al himself performing the track at,  » Read More

Next month, Beach Rats — the Asbury Park-bred band whose members have clocked time in Lifetime, Bouncing Souls, Bad Religion, and Minor Threat — are releasing their debut full-length Rat Beat. They’ve shared the title track and “Heavy Conversation” from it so far,  » Read More

The archival label The Numero Group has announced a month dedicated to the ’90s. The appropriately-titled ’90s Month will include reissues from Codeine, Karate, Current, and Unwound — most of those featuring some unreleased tracks.  » Read More

A couple months ago, Built To Spill announced their first new album in seven years, When The Wind Forgets Your Name, the follow-up to 2015’s Untethered Moon and their first for Sub Pop after 20 years on Warner Records. So far, we’ve heard two tracks from it —  » Read More

Last week, we found out that Beyoncé would be releasing her first new solo album in six years, Renaissance, at the end of July. Compared to the rollouts for her self-titled and Lemonade, it seems that she is taking a more traditional route to introducing the album so far,  » Read More

The Mars Volta haven’t put out an album since 2012’s Noctourniquet, but last year they became more of an active concern with the release of a career-spanning box set, which included a collection of previously unheard demos. Now the group is teasing their first new music in a decade with a cube installation in Los Angeles.  » Read More

Jack Antonoff spearheaded this year’s Bonnaroo Superjam, and he chose to dedicate the set to hit songs from his birth year of 1984. On hand to celebrate were Japanese Breakfast, Carly Rae Jepsen, Chvrches’ Lauren Mayberry, Spoon’s Britt Daniel, and more. Michelle Zauner covered Nena’s “99 Luftballons” on her own and Kenny Rogers &  » Read More

Clipse reunited for the first time in over a decade this weekend at Pharrell’s Something In The Water festival. The last time the brother rap duo of Pusha T and No Malice performed was in 2010, shortly after the release of their final album Til The Casket Drops.  » Read More

Bonnaroo has partnered with Hulu for the livestream of this year’s festival. Things get started down on the farm today, which means that the livestream has officially started. This year’s festival is headlined by J. Cole, Tool, and Stevie Nicks, though of those only J. Cole’s will be streaming online.  » Read More