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Last year, Chance The Rapper played a bunch of shows to celebrate the 10th anniversary of his breakout mixtape Acid Rap, but he didn’t get around to releasing Star Line Gallery, the new project that he’s been promising for a while. In fact, Chance hasn’t released a full-length since The Big Day,  » Read More

In a couple of weeks, the jangly Toronto indie rock duo Ducks Ltd. will drop their new album Harm’s Way. (It would be fun if the Chicago hardcore band Harm’s Way responded by dropping an album called Ducks Ltd., but that probably won’t happen.) We’ve posted the early tracks “  » Read More

Six Organs Of Admittance shared The Veiled Sea in 2021, and now Ben Chasny is back with its follow-up. Today, he announced his 21st album, Time Is Glass, and released the single “The Mission” with a music video directed by Elisa Ambrogio of Magik Markers.  » Read More

Nicki Minaj has been on the warpath since Megan Thee Stallion released her new single “Hiss” on Friday.  » 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. Book Bonus Beat: The Number Ones: Twenty Chart-Topping Hits That Reveal the History of Pop Music.  » Read More

Elbow are releasing a new album, AUDIO VERTIGO, on March 22 via Polydor/Geffen. Last week they shared its first single, “Lovers’ Leap.” On Friday night they performed the song on the British chat show The Graham Norton Show. They were joined by a horn section and performed in front of a big light up sign bearing their name.  » Read More

Los Angeles hardcore mainstays Touché Amoré first unleashed Is Survived By’s cathartic, brittle and abrasive rumination on personal legacy a decade ago, but it continues to hold its own in a screamo universe so often either lyrically impenetrable or light on melody.  » Read More

Toronto-based duo Ducks Ltd. are releasing a new album, Harm’s Way, on February 9 via Carpark. Now they have shared the album’s fourth single, “Heavy Bag,” via a lyric video.  » Read More

Inviting The Light is the latest offering from Welsh poet and playwright Patrick Jones, written in response to the death of his parents.  » Read More