“Time’s slipping away,” Niia notes on “Macaroni Salad,” the second track from her new EP If I Should Die. “When’s my big start?” she wonders. It’s a pointed question from a gifted R&B singer trying to navigate a world that doesn’t always care all that much for R&B. Niia released …
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J. Cole will release his next album, The Off-Season, next Friday, May 14th. The rapper announced the new LP on Twitter Tuesday, May 4th, sharing what’s ostensibly the album cover and a short note, “Just know this was years in the making.” No other additional information, such as a track …
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Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood went public earlier this week with the news that he spent part of the pandemic fighting off small-cell cancer. “I’ve had cancer two different ways now,” he told The Sun. “I had lung cancer in 2017 and I had small-cell more recently that I fought …
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A previously unheard recording of “Need Your Love So Bad” — a blues song that late Fleetwood Mac frontman Peter Green sang with the group in its early days — will come out in conjunction with the release of a new book about Green, The Albatross Man, this October. Rolling …
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Ahead of their new album Seek Shelter, Iceage have dropped the new track “Gold City.” The song opens with a harmonica and searing guitar as Elias Bender Rønnenfelt’s vocals enter. The frontman said of the song: “At home and enraptured in the fleeting moment, the sky becomes technicolor in its …
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The Deftones have dropped a new music video for “Ceremony,” directed by filmmaker Leigh Whannell, who helmed last year’s thriller The Invisible Man. The video stars Cleopatra Coleman as a woman who passes through a maze of increasingly secretive bars and clubs, with the price of admission taking stranger forms …
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Bonnie Raitt and the Indigo Girls are among the many voices featured on “No More Pipeline Blues (On this Land Where We Belong),” out on Earth Day (April 22nd) via Rock the Cause Records. The track supports the ongoing fight against Minnesota’s “Line 3” tar sands oil pipeline, which cuts …
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A new song from Epix seriesGodfather of Harlem has arrived featuring late rapper DMX, Swizz Beatz, and French Montana. The track, “Been to War,” drops only days after DMX died at age 50 after suffering a heart attack. The song appears on the soundtrack to the second season of Godfather …
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The Black Keys reconnect with the blues songs that informed their early years on the duo’s 10th studio album Delta Kream. Recorded in Nashville at the studio of Black Keys singer-guitarist Dan Auerbach, the record finds Auerbach and Keys drummer Patrick Carney paying homage to bluesmen like R.L. Burnside, Junior …
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Chicago punk mainstays Naked Raygun have announced that they’ll be releasing their first new album in 31 years this spring, via Chicago label Wax Trax! Records. To coincide with the album reveal, the band released its first single, “Living in the Good Times,” on Tuesday. The accompanying video shows the …
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