Tom Breihan

Pop wizard Charli XCX has done some voice acting in a couple of films — The Angry Birds Movie, Uglydolls — and she’s made a ton of music videos. She’s also doing the music and serving as executive producer of the new Amazon comedy series Overcompensating.  » Read More

Earlier this year, the 1975’s Matty Healy appeared on the comedian and former Cum Town co-host Adam Friedland’s podcast The Adam Friedland Show and mentioned that he’d once tried to DM Ice Spice, the rising Bronx rap star. This led to Friedland and his co-host Nick Mullen attempting to guess Ice Spice’s ethnicity and doing derogatory impersonations of Chinese,  » Read More

Today is Iggy Pop’s birthday. The man born James Osterberg Jr. is now 76 years old, and he’s looking as terrifyingly sinewy as ever. At the beginning of this year, Iggy released Every Loser, an album the he and mega-producer Andrew Watt recorded with an all-star backing band that included Guns N’  » Read More

In 2017, Seattle doom duo Bell Witch released their album Mirror Reaper — one single song that lasted 83 minutes. Bell Witch followed that one with dark folker and frequent collaborator Aerial Ruin on the 2020 collaborative album Stygian Bough Volume I. Just three days ago,  » Read More

If you’re even a casual fan of the NBA, then you’re probably used to seeing Bay Area rap pioneer E-40 sitting courtside while the Golden State Warriors win championship after championship. On Saturday night, E-40 was ejected from his courtside seat during the first game of the Kings and Warriors’ round-one series in Sacramento.  » Read More

A couple of times, I’ve seen “The Lousy” on show flyers, and I’ve gotten momentarily confused. If you put “The Lousy” next to the name of another band, it looks like you’re making fun of that other band. But no. The Lousy are a band. Paradoxically, the Lousy are not lousy. In fact,  » Read More

We’re about a month away from the release of My Soft Machine, Arlo Parks’ big follow-up to her Mercury Prize-winning debut Collapsed In Sunbeams. We’ve posted the early singles “Weightless” and “Impurities,” and now Parks has dropped the new song “Blades,”  » Read More

Outcry looms. In a few weeks, Detroit destroyers Never Ending Game will unleash their sophomore album upon an unsuspecting public. I have heard Outcry, and I feel like it’s about to become one of this year’s defining hardcore records. Never Ending Game already shared two early songs,  » Read More

We’re one month away from the release of Aperture, the debut album from the New York-via-Texas singer and songwriter Hannah Jadagu. She’s already shared the early tracks “Say It Now,” “What You Did,” and “Warning Sign.” Today,  » Read More