Ryan Leas

Well, New York’s NFT conference and Bored Ape Yacht Club’s ApeFest are both still going on. Last night, ApeFest upgraded from Snoop Dogg impersonator Doop Snogg to Snoop himself. During his performance, Snoop took the opportunity to premiere a new song and video with Eminem, and brought him out onstage as well.  » Read More

Back in February, YG returned with a new song called “Scared Money.” It found him teaming up with J. Cole and Moneybagg Yo, and was also reportedly the first preview of a forthcoming album. Today, he’s back with another collaboration that, again, is supposedly laying the groundwork for a new full-length project.  » Read More

For the last couple months, Orlando Higginbottom has been rolling out his new Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs album When The Lights Go, his first since 2012’s Trouble. We’ve heard several songs from it already, including “Blood In The Snow,” “Crosswalk,”  » Read More

At the end of April, Gorillaz kicked off their world your in Uruguay. That night, they unveiled a new setlist, featuring tracks that hadn’t been played in years (or ever before), and debuting two new songs — one called “Silent Running” and one called “Cracker Island.” The latter was still in the mix when I saw them do a triumphant headlining set at Primavera earlier this month.  » Read More

Last year, Ryan Patterson returned with his latest Fotocrime album, Heart Of Crime. Today, he’s announced that the project is coming back again, this time with something a bit different. At the end of July, Fotocrime will release an EP called Alcoves. It’ll be a collection of covers,  » Read More

In April, the British buzz band Wet Leg finally followed their string of indelible singles with a debut album. If you ask us, it lived up to the hype — we named it Album Of The Week and one of the best of 2022 so far. Now,  » Read More

Weezer are spending 2022 rolling out a four-part EP project called SZNZ. Each EP is tied to one of the seasons, and each one is set to drop on the corresponding solstice. So far we’ve received Spring, and Summer has now arrived on the occasion of the summer solstice.  » Read More

Since making one of our favorite rap albums of 2020, Flo Milli has been sticking to dropping a loose single here and there — including “Roaring 20s,” the Dora The Explorer-sampling “Back Pack,” and “PBC.”  » Read More

For a little over 10 years, there have been a series of Miles Davis Bootleg Series releases. Most of them feature live material from across the decades. Now, Columbia has announced the seventh installment, and it comes with a bunch of previously unreleased studio material.  » Read More