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The LA-based underground rap veteran Open Mike Eagle is extremely good at making funny, complex, life-affirming rap records and at talking about rap history on podcasts. The man works hard. Less than a year ago, he released his mixtape Component System With The Auto Reverse. Today, he’s announced plans to follow that one with an album-length project called Another Triumph Of Ghetto Engineering,  » Read More

It’s been more than a decade since Usher was a dominant pop star, but the man has kept himself at the center of the cultural conversation through a combination of nostalgia and shameless, masterful showmanship. (You can see both of them at work in the Tiny Desk Concert that he did last year.) He’s really leveraging for the release of “Good Good,”  » Read More

Into It. Over It. are among the many artists sharing new music today for Bandcamp Friday. In this case, it’s a one-off single available both digitally and on a limited edition flexi 7″. The sentimental anthem “New Addictions” finds Evan Weiss leaning into the Death Cab side of his sound, repeating the refrain “This country will kill us before this cigarette will”  » Read More

Earlier this year, Atlanta rap star Lil Yachty raised a whole lot of eyebrows when he released Let’s Start Here., a full album of Tame Impala-style psych rock. That record caused some seriously mixed feelings, and Yachty doubled down on his change of sound,  » Read More

There are great albums that open with mediocre tracks and mediocre albums that open with great tracks. But glancing at my CD collection, I can’t find an album with a more wildly incongruous opener than Ween’s Quebec. This thing blasts out the gate with “It’s Gonna Be A Long Night,”  » Read More

Taylor Swift never stops teasing, and her fans never stop speculating. Less than a month past the release of Speak Now (Taylor’s Version), both the Swifties and Taylor herself already have their sights set on her next re-recorded album. Last night Swift brought her Eras Tour to SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles,  » Read More

Brooklyn-based indie band Stolen Jars are back today with their latest album, I Won’t Let Me Down. Following after their 2019 album A Reminder, and a quiet period over the pandemic, the record finds Cody Fitzgerald once again joining with co-songwriter and vocalist Sarah Coffey guitarist Elias Spector-Zabusky, drummer Isaiah Hazzard, and keyboardist Grant Meyer.  » Read More

On the first trip through bdrmm’s sophomore album I Don’t Know, fans will notice the dramatic immediacy of 2020’s debut album Bedroom is missing.  » Read More

How do you replace the irreplaceable? You’d need to have a word with the chaps in Black Sabbath about that.  » Read More