Tom Breihan

Dance-music elder gods the Chemical Brothers just had a couple of big weekends at Coachella, and if you get a chance to jump around to their music in a field anytime soon, I would heartily suggest that you take that opportunity. Last month, the Chems released “No Reason,”  » Read More

Tomorrow, American treasure Willie Nelson will turn 90. He’ll celebrate the occasion with a pair of all-star concerts at the Hollywood Bowl. One of the acts playing those shows is Margo Price, and she’ll also join Willie on the Outlaw Music Tour this summer. Today, in advance of the big celebration,  » Read More

Our long national nightmare is almost over. Tonight, James Corden enters his final week as host of the Late Late Show. Soon, that man will presumably be headed back to the UK. He can continue to stage his viral musical-theater stunts and do insufferable voice-acting in children’s movies, and I will no longer have to blog about it.  » Read More

Last year, the Winnipeg noise rock brutalists KEN mode made a big return with Null. It’s the first album to feature the band’s newest member, multi-instrumentalist Kathryn Kerr, and it goes hard. Today, KEN mode have shared a new song that’s not on the LP, and this one goes hard,  » Read More

Earlier this month, the Japanese art-rock master Ryuichi Sakamoto died after living with cancer for a long time. Sakamoto was 71 when he died, and he kept working right up until the end of his life. During his lifetime, Sakamoto collaborated with a great many artists across a great many disciplines.  » 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

Is Jay Worthy really an underground legend? It probably depends on your definition. The LA-based rapper, who happens to be Grimes’ stepbrother, has been making underground rap for a long time, both as a solo artist and as a member of groups like LNDN DRGS and G-Worthy. He’s put in the work,  » Read More

Mark Stewart, the musician best-known for leading convulsive post-punkers the Pop Group, has died. Stewart’s Twitter reports that he died earlier today; no cause of death has been reported. Stewart was 62.  » Read More

Prolific New York rap force Your Old Droog released his EP The Shining a the end of 2022, and he followed it earlier this year with his single “The Groundhog.” Today, Droog has a new single that he recorded with legendary producer Madlib.  » Read More