Slikback, the Kenyan electronic music producer who’s now based in Poland, has announced his first album for Mike Paradinas’ Planet Mu label. The new album, Attrition, lands on July 18. Leading the 11-track effort is “Taped.” Find the new song below. Slikback made Attrition while awaiting his visa after moving to Poland from Kenya. “I…
D’Angelo will no longer be headlining the 2025 Roots Picnic, he announced in a statement shared on the festival’s social media pages on Friday. The singer said there has been “an unforeseen medical delay regarding surgery [he] had earlier this year,” and he’s been advised that the performance “could further complicate matters” as he recovers….
Last night, Wednesday made their television debut performing their new song, “Elderberry Wine,” on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. The Asheville, North Carolina, indie-rock band played in front of a mock living room setup cast on the walls, complete with the new single artwork in a frame, flowery wallpaper, wall sconces, and low-lit lamps….
The first trailer for Caught Stealing—the new Darren Aronofsky movie that pits vengeful gangster Bad Bunny against a cadre including Austin Butler, Zoë Kravitz, and Matt Smith in 1990s New York—is out now. Check it out below. Regina King, Liev Schreiber, Vincent D’Onofrio, Griffin Dunne, Carol Kane, and Action Bronson are among the rest of…
These New Puritans became an overnight cult phenomenon with their 2010 album Hidden, an album that paired Jack Barnett’s murmured mantras and medieval compositions with his brother George’s militant beats. Their albums since have taken that premise along wildly divergent paths, taking Talk Talk and Depeche Mode textures to their logical end point in Crooked…
Saint Etienne have announced announced a new album, and they’re saying it’s their final one. International, the British indie-pop trio’s follow-up to The Night, is out September 5 via Heavenly. The new album is led by the single “Glad,” which was co-written and co-produced with the Chemical Brothers’ Tom Rowlands and features Doves’ Jez Williams…
Earlier this year, Billy Joel postponed numerous concerts due to a then-unspecified medical condition. The musician and his team have now canceled those shows and revealed that Joel was recently diagnosed with a brain disorder called normal pressure hydrocephalus (NPH). “This condition has been exacerbated by recent concert performances, leading to problems with hearing, vision,…
In the summer of 2021, a man identified as John Doe sued Afrika Bambaataa, accusing the hip-hop pioneer of sexually abusing him and sex trafficking him between 1991 and 1995. The alleged abuse began when Doe was 12 years old, while Bambaataa would have been 33 or 34 years old. Bambaataa, whose legal name is…
On Thursday, May 22, Kid Cudi took the witness stand in the federal sex trafficking trial against Sean “Diddy” Combs. Cudi, whose real name is Scott Mescudi, was briefly in a relationship with Casandra Elizabeth “Cassie” Ventura, Diddy’s former partner, in 2011 that angered Diddy to the point of allegedly retaliating by blowing up Cudi’s…
Forth Wanderers are back. The New Jersey indie-rock quintet—featuring vocalist Ava Trilling, guitarist Ben Guterl, drummer Zach Lorelli, bassist Noah Yu Schifrin, and guitarist Duke Greene—will return soon with its first album since 2018. The new album, The Longer This Goes On, is out July 18 via Sub Pop. Watch the new video for the…
