Quazarz vs. The Jealous Machines
At the end of last month, underground-rap chameleons Shabazz Palaces announced a new album, Quazarz: Born on a Gangster Star, which is set to be released via Sub Pop on July 14, and shared its first single. More
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Elliott Smith – “Pretty (Ugly Before)” (Live)
A whole raft of alt and indie icons are part of the 7-inches for Planned Parenthood charity project, including Foo Fighters, Björk, Bon Iver, Feist, Sleater-Kinney, St. Vincent, Laurie Anderson, and Jon Brion. More
James Murphy Gets Political on LCD Soundsystem’s “Call the Police”
LCD Soundsystem released two new songs tonight, “Call the Police” and “American Dream.” While the latter is a classically LCD song about the crush of aging, the former is an explicitly political song that addresses our very bad times. More
The Drums – “Heart Basel”
The Drums have shared a perky new single titled “Heart Basel.” It’s the second cut from upcoming album “Abysmal Thoughts” (we’ve already heard “Blood Under My Belt”), and it comes via frontman Jonny Pierce’s interview with Noisey, where he talks about the Drums’ transition from a band to a solo act: More
Rancid Announce New Album Trouble Maker, Release Video for Single “Ghost of a Chance”
Rancid will release Trouble Maker, their first album since 2014’s Honor Is All We Know, on June 9. More
Hear Jlin’s Fiery and Bombastic New Track “Challenge (To Be Continued)”
Ahead of the release of her second album Black Origami this month, the Gary, Indiana, based experimental club music producer Jlin has shared “Challenge (To Be Continued),” the record’s final track. More
“I’m the One” Shows DJ Khaled Will Never Stop Having Fun
What does a DJ Khaled record really sound like? From breakout tracks “We Takin’ Over,” “I’m So Hood,” and “All I Do Is Win” to last year’s Grammy-nominated Major Key, the signature stylistic consistency is Khaled’s over-the-top ad-libs at the opening of each track. Like no other beatsmith before him, More
Hear the Shimmering “4xAtlantis take1,” a Previously Unreleased Aphex Twin Demo
Aphex Twin’s archives run deep. Before the release of his comeback opus Syro in 2014, the virtuosic electronic musician hadn’t released any new music in about a decade, but he hadn’t stopped creating, and since then, he’s been teasing out some of the music he made in the interim: first in a dump of hundreds of demos and other ephemera to… More