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Everyone makes fun of Drake, but there’s a reason the guy became a dominant rap star. Every once in a while, he reminds us. This past weekend, Drake and the London rap star appeared together on On The Radar, the New York platform run by the Power 105.1 radio host Gabe P.  » Read More

A couple weeks ago, Jack White called out a bunch of celebrities for hanging out with Donald Trump at a UFC Fight, which got the conservative grifters in a tizzy. Among them is Tulsi Gabbard, the former Hawaii representative who left the Democratic Party last year and has since settled into her position as a Fox News talking head and stoker of online outrage.  » Read More

Blur — the Britpop legends, one-off jock jam purveyors, and thing the guy from Gorillaz did before Gorillaz — released their relatively chill reunion album The Ballad Of Darren on Friday. Today they’ve dropped a deluxe edition featuring two extra tracks.  » Read More

Doja Cat has been a messy social-media presence since long before she got famous. Sometimes, that messiness can be ugly, but it can also be necessary. Doja recently released her comeback single “Attention,” and she’s gearing up for a big arena tour, with Ice Spice on board as her opener.  » Read More

A few years ago, Chris Rowley, the former (male) singer of the great early-’90s British riot grrrl band Huggy Bear, started singing for a new band. In Adulkt Life, Rowley joined forces with former Male Bonding members John Arthur Webb and Kevin Hendrick, as well as drummer Sonny Barrett. Adulkt Life released their great debut album Book Of Curses in 2020.  » Read More

“Toothache,” the lead single from Lydia Loveless’ new album Nothing’s Gonna Stand In My Way Again, was the kind of catchy, upbeat roots-rock song they made their name on, laced with some nice power-pop touches for style points. New single “Runaway” succeeds in different ways.  » Read More

Right now, The Righteous Gemstones, Danny McBride’s HBO comedy about a dysfunctional family about vainglorious televangelists, is by far the best thing on television. The third season of The Righteous Gemstones is nearing its conclusion, and last night’s episode was a doozy. One of the highlights of the the show was Sturgill Simpson,  » Read More

Montreal-based outfit the Nora Kelly Band debuted last year with their Perfect Pig EP, spinning off of Kelly’s previous band, DISHPIT. In contrast to that project’s punk edge, Kelly’s latest efforts see her exploring into the world of country, via both winding slow burners and stomping, freewheeling singalongs.  » Read More

In the summer of 2018, when live clips started circulating of an impossibly young London quartet performing unimaginably complicated arrangements with an equally unimaginable precision, they looked more like a viral marketing deepfake than a real band.  » Read More