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Haim recently stopped by Lauren Laverne’s show on BBC Radio 6 while they were in the UK performing at the All Points East festival. They picked out some songs to play and talked about the upcoming 10th anniversary of their debut album Days Are Gone. And around the 1hr21m mark in the show,  » Read More

Something scary happened during Ellie Goulding’s set Sunday at the Victorious Festival in Portsmouth, UK. While Goulding was singing her Calvin Harris collab “Miracle,” a firework shot up from the stage and grazed the front of her body. In footage of the incident, Goulding appears flustered but carries on performing, having seemingly escaped physical harm.  » Read More

Great video alert! Great song, too. “Die Today,” the new single from Atlanta rap duo EarthGang, has some of that gliding Southern hip-hop crossover appeal that made songs like Rich Boy’s “Throw Some D’s” and UGK’s “Int’l Players Anthem” such big hits in the 2000s, courtesy of a soul-inflected trap beat from producers Buddy Red and EarthGang’s Johnny Venus aka Olu.  » Read More

Cupid & Psyche is the LA-based partnership of Michael Vidal and Juan Velasquez, two core members of the great experimental punk band Abe Vigoda. On their debut album Romantic Music, out next month via felte, the duo blurs together a number of ’80s and ’90s alternative touchstones, most prominently electronic pop in the Depeche Mode/New Order vein and shoegaze at its most sensual.  » Read More

In 1996, two albums came out a couple of weeks apart, and both of them used the exact same photo as their cover art. Both Fountains Of Wayne’s self-titled debut and the Flamingoes’ Plastic Jewels had the same photo — a little kid posing as a superhero —  » Read More

The Kills, the long-running collaboration between Alison Mosshart and Jamie Hince, haven’t released a new album since 2016’s Ash & Ice. In 2020, Mosshart and Hince released the B-sides/rarities collection Little Bastards, and last month they released a pair of singles, one for each of the coasts: “New York”  » Read More

Hours after my mother passed away, I can recall stepping out into the garden—bewildered, untethered, adrift. Then, inexplicably, every detail in the garden seemed to snap into a weird kind of piercing clarity.  » Read More

Lucio Fulci’s second zombie film comes to UltraHD courtesy of Cauldron Films.  » Read More

Meet Silvertwin, whose classic pop sound has drawn comparisons with Billy Joel, Paul McCartney and Wings, ELO and Elvis Costello among a host of others.  » Read More