Category: Music

A drive-by shooting outside a Mello Buckzz EP release party in Chicago last night (July 2) has left four people dead and 14 wounded, CBS News reports. Three people fired from a vehicle into a crowd outside the Artis Lounge nightclub, in the River North neighborhood, at about 11 p.m., Chicago police said. Two women,…

Oasis have announced a 30th-anniversary reissue of their second album, (What’s the Story) Morning Glory?, appended with five unplugged recordings. One of them, “Acquiesce,” is out now; check it out below, along with updated cover artwork from original sleeve designer Brian Cannon. Noel Gallagher and Callum Marinho produced and mixed the original masters to create…

French indie-folk artist Mina Tindle has reunited with Sufjan Stevens for her new song “Heaven Thunder.” Their gentle duet is out on the French label S76. Give it a listen below. Stevens and Tindle previously collaborated on the single “Give a Little Love,” which appeared on Tindle’s 2020 album, Sister. Since then, Tindle has shared…

Sean “Diddy” Combs has been cleared of racketeering and sex trafficking in federal court, but is guilty of two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution. Concluding a trial that began in May, in Manhattan’s Federal District Court, the jury determined that Diddy is not guilty of three of the five charges, including racketeering, which…

Last year, American Football celebrated the 25th anniversary of their landmark debut album with a series of live performances. Now, that tour will be immortalized in the form of a concert film. American Football (Live in Los Angeles) was recorded across two nights at Los Angeles’ El Rey Theatre. Directed by Steph Rinzler and featuring…

After sharing the mini-album Weft in January, Blue Lake’s Jason Dungan has announced his next studio LP. Out October 3 via Tonal Union, The Animal is the Copenhagen-based musician’s proper follow-up to to 2023’s Sun Arcs and his first project recorded with a full band in a studio. The album was produced by Dungan and…

Born in Japan and raised in New York, DJ SARASA is a genre-blending artist whose bicultural roots shape every set—skillfully weaving soul, funk, R&B, hip-hop, and electronic into her sound. SARASA’s influence extends far beyond the DJ booth: she’s also an entrepreneur, founding Casa De Sarasa and the Tacos Association of Japan. Her talent hasn’t…

Foo Fighters have returned with “Today’s Song,” their first new song in nearly two years. It follows the band’s 2023 full-length, But Here We Are—their first album without the late drummer Taylor Hawkins—and the newly shared cover of Minor Threat’s “I Don’t Wanna Hear It.” Listen to Foo Fighters’ new single below. Foo Fighters parted…

Prolific collaborators Eiko Ishibashi and Jim O’Rourke are releasing a new album. Pareidolia is out August 29 via Drag City. The album collages together improvised music from the artists’ 2023 tour of Europe. Today, Ishibashi and O’Rourke have shared a snippet of Pareidolia. Check it out below. The album’s title, as noted in a press…

As usual, we heard a wide-ranging variety of music this past month. What stands out in the best releases is the thoughtfulness, whether in the programming of the selected works or the interpretation of them. Anna Lapwood’s (pictured) Firedove was meant to keep listeners guessing and engaged. The Lost Tapes of Sviatoslav Richter demonstrate in…