The beleaguered lead singer of Whiskeytown once crooned “So I started this damn country band/’cause punk rock was too hard to sing” which is an apt description of what was going on in the newly-named “insurgent country” movement in the Midwest in the early ’90s. Punk ethos met the hard-drinking and rough living sad sack…
Last year, Megan Thee Stallion sued the YouTuber Milagro Gramz over alleged Tory Lanez case lies and deepfake porn. Today, the rapper won the defamation lawsuit. The federal jury agreed that the content creator, whose real name is Milagro Cooper, defamed and harassed Megan. They awarded her $75,000, but U.S. District Judge Cecilia M. Altonaga…
Since 2022’s Fossora, Björk has stayed busy. The avant-pop icon collaborated with Rosalía on “Oral” to protest Icelandic fish farming, narrated a documentary about fungi, hosted an immersive auditory experience in Paris, and released the Cornucopia concert film. Now, she’s readying her next album. Today, Björk announced her exhibition alongside her close collaborator James Merry…
Florida emo rapper POORSTACY has died. According to TMZ, he was transported to a local hospital for a medical emergency on Saturday morning (Nov. 29), and his death was confirmed by the Palm Beach County Medical Examiner. The cause of death is currently unknown. He was 26. Carlito Junior Milfort was born March 15, 1999 in…
Today is World AIDS Day, a day dedicated to raising awareness about the disease and remembering those lost to it. It has been observed annually on this date since 1988, but for the first time, the United States government is not formally commemorating the occasion this year. Donald Trump’s State Department has instructed its employees…
Less than a year after wrapping up her last run of live performances, FKA twigs is going back on tour. Beginning in March of next year, the Body High Tour will bring twigs to theaters and arenas across North America, Europe, and the United Kingdom in support of Eusexua and its companion album, Eusexua Afterglow….
The Chicago hip-hop producer Lapgan, best known around these parts for last year’s great collaborative album with Heems, has a fun new project on deck for the end of this week. On Friday, he’ll release Lapgan Is Ecstatic, an album-length reimagining of Mos Def/Yasiin Bey’s 2009 stunner The Ecstatic, now infused with the South Asian…
Radiohead have postponed two dates of their ongoing European tour while Thom Yorke recovers from an “extreme throat infection.” The performances, originally scheduled for tonight (December 1) and tomorrow at the Royal Arena in Copenhagen, Denmark, will now take place on December 15 and 16. Two additional shows at the same venue are set to…
Paul Anka started out as a teen idol in the ’50s before embarking on a near-endless career as a Las Vegas entertainment fixture. Along the way, Anka, now 84, became one of the diminishing number of living people who can claim to have seen Frank Sinatra’s penis in the flesh. Now, Anka has gone on…
As Batu, Omar McCutcheon twists darkness into odd structures. He grew up near Oxford, UK, where he was mesmerized by his father’s vinyl collection. Settling into his current alias as a teenager, he enrolled at Bath Spa University to study production. “My love of electronic music really started with dubstep,” he remembers. “It morphed into…
