Tom Breihan

Today, the Alchemist released his new EP Flying High, and one of Alc’s frequent collaborators has a new album, too. The permanently chilled-out New Orleans rap veteran Curren$y has made a lot of records with the Alchemist over the years; their most recent was last year’s Continuance.  » Read More

Elegant, gentlemanly indie rocker Hamilton Leithauser is back to playing shows with the reunited Walkmen, and he’s also got another endeavor going on. Leithauser is scoring Supreme: The Battle For Roe, a new scripted podcast that tells the story of Roe V. Wade, the historic Supreme Court decision that was shamefully undone last year.  » Read More

Filth Is Eternal, the grimy Seattle punk band who used to go by the even-grimier name Fucked And Bound, released their LP Love Is A Lie, Filth Is Eternal two years ago. Now, they’ve announced plans to follow that album with a new one called Find Out.  » Read More

Nu-metal icons Korn were rocking full Adidas tracksuits from the very moment that they arrived on the scene in the ’90s. One of the singles from the band’s 1997 sophomore album Life Is Peachy is literally called “A.D.I.D.A.S.,” though the title is based on the urban myth that the shoe company’s name stands for “All Day I Dream About Sex.”  » Read More

It’s officially summer now, and 51-year-old rap legend Busta Rhymes is doing his best to give us a brand-new summer jam. For most of the year, Busta has been in rap elder-statesman mode. He teamed up with Conway The Machine and Big Daddy Kane on the fundamentalist NY single “Slap.”  » Read More

In 2019, the emo-rap star Juice WRLD died of an accidental drug overdose. He was 21. Since Juice WRLD’s death, a lot of his music has come out, including the extremely successful album Legends Never Die and the hit Eminem collaboration “Godzilla.”  » Read More

Last year, Circa Survive singer Anthony Green got together with members of My Chemical Romance, Thursday, and Coheed And Cambria to form a new post-hardcore supergroup called L.S. Dunes, and they quickly cranked out their debut album Past Lives. Today, L.S. Dunes have followed that LP with the excellently titled new single “Benadryl Subreddit.”  » Read More

Seven songs. That’s all it took. The Long Island hardcore band Pain Of Truth got going during the pandemic, and they’ve already become one of the biggest sensations in the hardcore world, even though they’ve got very little music out in the world — five tracks on their 2020 debut EP No Blame…  » Read More

“This one requires my focus,” says Daveed Diggs, right before he lets off another furious torrent of dizzying technical rap. That statement demands a question: Did all his other furious torrents of dizzying technical rap not demand his focus? Apparently not. Diggs is an extremely talented human being, and his capacity for precise syllable-blitzkrieg rapping helped him win a Tony when he was in Hamilton.  » Read More