For centuries, street singing was considered the lowest form of a musical career. Street musicians — buskers — were looked on as glorified beggars. But cities that once outlawed busking have come to embrace it — as a way to renew foot traffic in the age of Amazon. While street singers used to depend on…
Iron & Wine’s Sam Beam and Band of Horses’ Ben Bridwell will follow up their 2015 covers album Sing Into My Mouth with an EP of new interpretations, Making Good Time, due Sept. 12. The lead track is Kendrick Lamar and SZA’s “Luther,” which can be sampled below. Beam and Bridwell are childhood friends from…
Nearly 30 minutes of previously unreleased footage featuring the late Jeff Buckley performing solo at the Middle East in Cambridge, Ma., on Feb. 19, 1994, will be exclusively shown following theatrical screenings of the upcoming documentary It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley, which arrives on Aug. 8. “Discovering this footage felt like a dream,” said director…
IDLES have recorded four new songs plus the film score to the upcoming Darren Aronofsky-directed movie Caught Stealing, which hits U.S. theaters on Aug. 29. The soundtrack is due the same day in digital form from Partisan Records and includes lead track “Rabbit Run,” which is out now, and a cover of Junior Marvin’s “Police…
Hollywood is obsessed with stories about young people losing their virginity, from 1982’s aptly titled Losin’ It, to one of the few with a fully developed frontal cortex, 2005’s The 40-Year-Old Virgin. But there’s one standout film that consistently sparks a virtual firestorm, popping up every time a social channel needs an organic algorithm boost:…
Before he was Coolio, Artis Leon Ivey Jr. was just a kid growing up in Compton and South Central Los Angeles, at a time when middle class hope gave way to something very different. “Compton was actually a well-to-do area until the 1980s when Ronald Reagan ushered in the crack era,” said Coolio’s longtime personal…
“I’ve seen, like, Drew Barrymore and Paris Hilton post my shit on TikTok,” says Idris Vicuña, better known as Eyedress, over the phone from North Hollywood while he’s enjoying lunch at a Mexican seafood restaurant in North Hollywood. “I try to just stay humble, I try not to gas myself up with that stuff.” More…
Though the final Talking Heads album came out in 1988, the band never really went away. Unlike defunct groups trapped in a cycle of rediscovery every generation or so, Talking Heads have remained indelible, hip with both the folks old enough to remember and art-damaged youngsters seeing David Byrne in an oversized suit for the…
The genre-blurring artist opens a new chapter with an album that’s as visual as it is sonic Julian Scanlan, the genre-defiant producer best known as Slushii, has always toyed with duality: hard drops vs. soft melodies, extroversion vs. vulnerability, the digital vs. the deeply human. But Chrysalis, his new 18-track album released with his ambient…
“‘Dark Star’ is always playing somewhere. All we do is tap into it,” Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh supposedly said. Grayfolded, John Oswald’s epic collage of the Dead’s hallmark longform jam, assembled from fragments of more than 100 different performances spanning the band’s 30-year career, could be seen as an attempt to simultaneously channel every…
