Afrobeats star Asake has issued a statement after a woman died in a crowd crush at his concert in Kenya, the second such incident at one of his shows. Karen Lojore died Saturday night as a result of a crowd crush during Asake’s show at Nairobi’s Nyayo Stadium, the BBC reports. On his Instagram story,…
A new Lady Gaga concert film will arrive on Christmas Eve. Lady Gaga in Harlequin Live: One Night Only was recorded last year during a performance at Los Angeles’ Belasco Theatre, where Lady Gaga performed Harlequin—her 2024 “companion album” to Joker: Folie à Deux, in which she starred as Harley Quinn—in its entirety. The film…
Like her inspiration, benefactor, and collaborator Taylor Swift, Gracie Abrams has enmeshed herself within the Eaux Claires extended universe. Abrams, the hit-making folk-pop singer-songwriter, is multiple albums deep into a recording relationship with the National’s Aaron Dessner, a big-deal indie producer who became a big-deal pop producer when Swift recruited him to produce her 2020…
Bon Iver, Gracie Abrams, and the National’s Aaron Dessner have released a new song, “Sold Out,” to benefit the gun violence prevention organization Everytown. Though Justin Vernon has often collaborated with Dessner, and Abrams and Dessner are ongoing songwriting partners—not to mention that Abrams has covered Bon Iver’s “Beach Baby”—“Sold Out” is the first formal…
Every few months you can count on Bad History Month’s Bandcamp page to update with some high-quality artisanal small-batch indie rock. Recently, that has involved a lot of covers of the same band. On his PIGWORLD series, Sean Sprecher has been recording songs by Dust From 1000 Years, the longstanding alias of Ben Rector, who…
Dutch-British audio-visual artist Beatriz de Rijke aka BEA1991 has consistently released singles over the past few months — “Tummy Bug,” “Saltworks,” and “Sex With Benefits.” She shared another one earlier this week called “Almost A Lover,” which is a dreamy rabbit hole of freak folk and trip-hop. Her voice sores high like a liberated balloon. Some…
Yo La Tengo has been hosting a big Hanukkah celebration at Bowery Ballroom for years. This year there’s been plenty of surprise guests and tributes, including the National singer Matt Berninger, Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Built To Spill’s Doug Martsch, Norah Jones, and Nate Amos‘ This is Lorelei. Last night they welcomed Lucinda Williams and David Mansfield…
Earlier this week, multi-instrumentalist Steven Drozd revealed that the Flaming Lips were “done with” him after 33 years. An innocent post about his excitement for acquiring an Akai drum machine opened a can of worms regarding where Drozd stands with the band of which he was a key member. “They’re done with me — but…
Last week, Steven Drozd revealed in a since-deleted post that he’s no longer in the Flaming Lips after a nearly 35-year-long run. The band hasn’t formally released its own statement, and neither has Wayne Coyne, but their current drummer Matthew Duckworth Kirksey did share some thoughts in an Instagram post today in collaboration with the…
It’s not necessarily surprising that rapper Nicki Minaj has been cuddling up to MAGA, but that doesn’t make it any less unsettling. She’s become more and more vocally supportive of the current White House administration. Today, she was the surprise guest at Turning Points USA’s AmericaFest in Arizona, where she was interviewed by Charlie Kirk’s…
