Tom Breihan

In the past few days, Kanye West has been on a real tear, getting himself locked out of both Instagram and Twitter for making anti-Semitic statements. Kanye’s peers are not amused. While playing a show with his band Bleachers last night, Kanye’s fellow hitmaking producer Jack Antonoff, who is Jewish, went on a spur-of-the-moment riff about Kanye West’s anti-Semitism.  » Read More

In pro wrestling storytelling, a heel turn is one of the most dramatic things that can happen. Heel turns can happen gradually over months, or they can be sudden and jarring, but there’s always a moment where it become official: a former fan favorite turns evil. Most of the time, that fan favorite will eventually return to the good side —  » Read More

Today is Bandcamp Friday, that blessed holiday when the online music store forfeits its percentage of sales and when lots and lots of indie musicians release new music directly to the public. One of those musicians is the DIY lifer Ted Leo, who mostly only drops new music on Bandcamp Fridays these days.  » Read More

Paramount+ recently rebooted the classic MTV show Beavis & Butt-Head, with a new movie and new episodes of the show. That means we get to hear Mike Judge voicing both Beavis and Butt-Head as they process the intricacies of 2022 popular culture. The show has plotlines,  » Read More

Caroline Polachek has had a fascinating career, and she continues to do interesting things with her level of indie-fame. In the past few months, she’s produced tracks for QT creator Hyd and covered Nancy Sinatra for the soundtrack of Minions: The Rise Of Gru. Now,  » Read More

In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present.  » Read More

At the beginning of last year, the great R&B veteran Jazmine Sullivan released Heaux Tales, her first album in six years. That album won Sullivan two Grammys, as well as a ton of critical acclaim. Since then, Sullivan has released a deluxe edition of Heaux Tales and covered “Sometimes I Feel Like A Motherless Child”  » Read More

Toronto greats Fucked Up have been in the game for a long, long time, and they’ve made a lot of confounding, unpredictable music. They’re not done. Last year, the band released the towering and ambitious Year Of The Horse. Today, they’ve followed that record up with a new EP that moves them into grimier,  » Read More

Later this month, Sigur Rós’ officially-untitled third album, known to most of us as ( ), will celebrate its 20th anniversary. That album, an absurdly pretty 71-minute collection of untitled tracks, was a lot of people’s introduction to Sigur Rós, and it remains the favorite of many fans. On the day of the album’s anniversary,  » Read More