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Sigur Rós Launch Unique 24-Hour Livestream Featuring New Music
Sigur Rós have revealed the details on "Route One," the livestream event they've been teasing throughout the day. According to a press release, it's a 24-hour "Slow TV" broadcast on Iceland's National...
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Sigur Rós Tease “Route One” Online Event Today
Sigur Rós played one of the best concerts I've ever seen at Primavera Sound, and they're promising new music on their upcoming theater tour. So there's two of the many reasons to be interested in...
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Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross –“Juno”
Trent Reznor has released a new song with longtime collaborator Atticus Ross. As Consequence Of Sound points out, the Nine Inch Nails leader and his movie soundtrack co-conspirator recorded "Juno" to...
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Watch Gene Simmons Fall On His Ass At Last Night’s KISS Show
Sometimes, it seems like the universe is getting it all wrong. Bad things happen to good people, good things happen to bad people, all of it is totally unfair, and none of it makes any sense. And...
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Stream Deerhoof The Magic
Veteran San Francisco rock weirdos Deerhoof have released so many albums over their nearly two decades as a band that it can be hard to get an exact count, but The Magic is their latest, a follow-up to...
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Skrillex & Rick Ross –“Purple Lamborghini”
Wannabe drug kingpin Rick Ross and banger sculptor Skrillex have linked for "Purple Lamborghini," which will land on Suicide Squad: The Album, slated to drop the same day as the Suicide Squad film....
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Watch Neko Case, k.d. lang, And Laura Veirs Play Their First Concert In Portland
case/lang/veirs, the supergroup made up of Neko Case, k.d. lang, and Laura Veirs, just released their self-titled debut album last week. One day earlier, the trio performed the LP in its entirety...
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Warped Tour Attracts Criticism For Pro-Life Tent
I have never been to Warped Tour. The one summer I was planning to finally attend the festival, I was 18 and working at a sleep away camp, and subsequently wasn't allowed to switch my scheduled day off...
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Skrillex & Rick Ross –“Purple Lamborghini” Video (Feat. Jared Leto)
Today sees the release of Suicide Squad, the megabudget DC Comics summer tentpole that already looks like a historic turkey, a prime example of a desperate movie studio having no idea how to serve its...
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Yohuna –“The Moon Hangs In The Sky Like Nothing Hangs In The Sky”
Recently-crowned Artist To Watch Yohuna has shared another song from her long-in-the-making debut album, Patientness. "The Moon Hangs In The Sky Like Nothing Hangs In The Sky" is at once both towering...
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Morrissey Says LAX Immigration Officials Stole $150 From His Wallet
Everyone hates airports, but they seem like a complete personal hell for Morrissey. Last year, Morrissey claimed that San Francisco Airport Security had sexually assaulted him. And in a recent...
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Blake Shelton Says Unearthed Racist And Homophobic Tweets Were Just Comedy
Gwen Stefani's boyfriend Blake Shelton is in some hot water after some tweets he allegedly sent a few years ago made the rounds again on social earlier media this week. Now, I don't have a microscope...
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The 5 Best Videos Of The Week
I'm on vacation this week. And yet I'm still taking time away from throwing my kids into waves so that I can watch way too many music videos, including that endless Massive Attack one where it's just...
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Chance The Rapper, James Blake Disagree About Whether They Leased A Hollywood...
Way back in 2013, the world found out that Chance The Rapper and James Blake planned to be roommates in LA, and we all let out a collective: "Awwwwwwwwww." In a new GQ profile on Chicago's prodigy,...
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Feist Will Appear On New Broken Social Scene Album
It's been too long since we've heard from Feist, and it's also been too long since we've heard from Broken Social Scene, the ragged Canadian rock collective that counts Feist as an occasional member....
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The Pretenders Announce New Album Alone Produced By Dan Auerbach, Tour With...
The Pretenders have just announced a new album entitled Alone, their first since 2008's Break Up The Concrete. Besides Chrissie Hynde, the album features bassist Dave Roe, pedal steel guitarist Russ...
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Watch The Killers Cover Bob Dylan’s “Blowin’ In The Wind” At The 2016 Lake...
The Lake Tahoe Summit is a big annual affair, with lawmakers from around the country meeting to discuss environmental issues. This year's just-wrapped edition featured President Obama discussing his...
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Alicia Keys –“Back To Life”
It brings me great, overwhelming sadness to report that "Back To Life," the new song from Alicia Keys, is not a Soul II Soul cover. Instead, a new song, and it comes from the soundtrack of Queen Of...
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Jewel Burns Rob Lowe, Ann Coulter, & Peyton Manning On Comedy Central Roast
Last night Comedy Central aired its roast of actor Rob Lowe and the dais included some unlikely personalities: conservative political commentator Ann Coulter, former Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning,...
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Alcest –“Je Suis D’Ailleurs”
The French band Alcest have effectively been around for about a decade now -- their first EP, Le Secret, was released in 2005, and that was followed by the debut full-length, Souvenirs D'un Autre...
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Field Music –“How We Gonna Get There Now?”
Peter and David Brewis, better known as Field Music, released their stellar album Commontime earlier this year. It was their first Top 40 LP, and they're riding high off the accomplishment into the...
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Watch Vince Staples Perform “Smile” With The Roots On The Tonight Show
Vince Staples released the great new EP Prima Donna last month. And last night, he was the musical guest on The Tonight Show, where he stood out front of house band the Roots and performed the dark,...
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Alex Bleeker –“Bet Your Ass”
Alex Bleeker is sharing a new project this upcoming Saturday entitled Bet Your Ass, which follows last fall's Freaks release Country Agenda and is our first taste of new music since the Real Estate...
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D.R.A.M. –“Cash Machine”
The euphoric Virginia sing-rapper D.R.A.M. is on one hell of a run right now; his Lil Yachty collab "Broccoli" was a legit song-of-the-summer contender. And today, he's come out with a new one called...
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Trent Reznor, Mogwai Score Leonardo DiCaprio Climate Change Documentary
Trent Reznor and his longtime score collaborator Atticus Ross served as music supervisors on the upcoming documentary Before The Flood, which focuses on Leonardo DiCaprio's climate change work. Reznor...
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ScHoolboy Q –“Overtime” (Feat. Miguel & Justine Skye) Video
ScHoolboy Q made a classic with Blank Face. In addition to the 17-track monster's musical nostalgia and maniacal aggression, Groovy Q has had a string of stirring videos which landed him in our 5 Best...
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Lower Dens –“Real Thing” Video
Lower Dens' most recent LP, Escape From Evil, came out back in 2015, and during its rollout we saw a few excellent videos to accompany tracks from the album. Jana Hunter performed "Sucker's Shangri-La"...
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Thom Yorke –“Coloured Candy”
Thom Yorke is a fan of Rag & Bone -- that's the designers' beige suede Manston Jacket he's wearing in Radiohead's "Daydreaming" video -- and has showed his appreciation by soundtracking their...
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GTA –“Little Bit Of This” (Feat. Vince Staples) Video
Miami production duo GTA are set to drop their debut, Good Times Ahead, later this fall. They're known for quirky, synth-doused jams, and though that may not sound like something for Vince Staples to...
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Trying To Make Sense Of John Mayer’s Career, 10 Years After Continuum
For an indiscernible amount of time in the '00s, I remember hearing John Mayer's "No Such Thing" everywhere. Echoing from new SUVs parked at the intramural soccer matches, playing in T.J. Maxx and...
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The 5 Best Songs Of The Week
The 'gum squad is headed upstate to Basilica Soundscape this weekend to see Angel Olsen, Cobalt, Wolves In The Throne Room, Explosions In The Sky, and a bunch of other shit that will sound real good in...
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5 Memorable Sets From Riot Fest Chicago 2016 Sunday
No one does exit polls at the end of music festivals or anything, but it's hard to shake the feeling that for a lot of people, seeing an artist you truly love doesn't really factor into the decision to...
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White Lung –“Sister” Video
May cover story stars White Lung had one of the 50 Best Albums Of The Year So Far with their excellent Paradise. They've also released a bunch of great videos for the project, and the latest one comes...
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Hear Meek Mill Attack The Game On His “Ooouuu” Freestyle
Meek Mill and the Game are not getting along with each other. Last week, on a six-minute track called "92 Bars," Game had some threatening words for Meek: "You better have Ross call me or you gon’ be...
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Gucci Mane –“Bling Blaww Burr” (Feat. Young Dolph)
Gucci Mane has been home from prison for a few months now, and he's already released one album, the impressive Everybody Looking. But Gucci works quickly, and before long, we'll get another album out...
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Tommy Stinson Reforms Bash & Pop, Signs To Fat Possum
After the Replacements' first break-up in 1991, bassist Tommy Stinson formed Bash & Pop and released one album, 1993's Friday Night Is Killing Me. In the years since, he's put out two solo albums...
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Deniro Farrar –“Consistently Inconsistent” Video
Introspective, pro-black North Carolina MC Deniro Farrar dropped his Mind Of A Gemini earlier this summer. It's a versatile collection of songs with plenty of sharp-tongued commentary to go around. One...
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L’Orange & Mr. Lif –“Palace In The Sky”
Criminally slept-on producer L'Orange and MC Mr. Lif are set to drop their collab LP The Life And Death Of Scenery next month. We've already heard the boom-bap banger "Strange Technology," and today...
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Shut Up, Dude: This Week’s Best And Worst Comments
This week we answered the age-old question Who's Shawn Mendes?. We reflected on the legacies of Pinkerton and Dusk At Cubist Castle. We listed the most unattractive songs for your new Spotify-enhanced...
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The 5 Best Videos Of The Week
Lady Gaga is probably the last mainstream star who became a star primarily because of her videos, which were weird and eye-popping and absorbing and cinematic and generally incredible. I've been at a...
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