Today (July 16) marks the 80th anniversary of the Trinity test, during which a team of U.S. scientists led by J. Robert Oppenheimer detonated the world’s first atomic bomb in the deserts of New Mexico. To memorialize the occasion, Kronos Quartet recorded two star-studded covers of Bob Dylan’s “A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall,” which Dylan…
David Byrne has shared another selection from his forthcoming solo album, Who Is the Sky? Inspired by Rebecca Solnit’s essay collection Men Explain Things to Me, “She Explains Things to Me” follows last month’s lead single “Everybody Laughs.” Hear the new track below. “Many times I have marveled at how a friend (usually a female…
Netflix has shared the first teaser video for the fifth and final season of Stranger Things. Here is what is promised in the new season: “The fall of 1987. Hawkins is scarred by the opening of the Rifts, and our heroes are united by a single goal: find and kill Vecna.” The synopsis continues: “The…
Robert Plant has announced a new album called Saving Grace. His first full-length since the 2021 Alison Krauss team-up Raise the Roof is led by a new cover of Low’s “Everybody’s Song.” Listen to the former Led Zeppelin singer’s take on the Great Destroyer track below. Saving Grace is out September 26 via Nonesuch. Plant…
Devonté Hynes has officially announced Essex Honey, his first Blood Orange studio album since 2018. Hynes wrote, produced, and recorded his follow-up to Negro Swan, and he got contributions from: Lorde, Caroline Polachek, Daniel Caesar, Mustafa, Turnstile frontman Brendan Yates, Tariq Al-Sabir, Ian Isiah, Tirzah, Eva Tolkin, Wet singer Kelly Zutrau, Liam Benzvi, Amandla Stenberg,…
Sudan Archives has announced her third album: The BPM is out October 17 via Stones Throw. The Los Angeles–based musician’s follow-up to 2022’s Natural Brown Prom Queen includes recent single “Dead,” along with two more newly released tracks, “My Type” and “Yea Yea Yea.” Watch the music video for “My Type” and listen to “Yea…
Cassandra Jenkins has announced a companion album to last year’s My Light, My Destroyer. The New York artist’s new album, My Light, My Massage Parlor, is out digitally on August 14 via Dead Oceans. (Physical editions are out September 5.) Leading the new album is “Delphinium Bliss,” a reinterpretation of “Delphinium Blue.” Watch the new…
Nine Inch Nails scored the new movie Tron: Ares, and they have now announced the details of the official soundtrack album. Tron: Ares (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is out September 19 via Interscope. Below, listen to the new album’s “As Alive as You Need Me to Be” and watch the official trailer for Tron: Ares….
Freddie Gibbs and the Alchemist have announced that their new album Alfredo 2 is out on July 25. Featured on the sequel to 2020’s Alfredo are Anderson .Paak, Larry June, and JID. Listen to the album’s opening track, “1995,” below. To go with the new album, Gibbs and the Alchemist have shared a short film…
Chuquimamani-Condori has released a new album that collects their DJ edits from the past six years. Find the 24-track Edits below. Edits is Chuquimamani-Condori’s first solo project since 2023’s DJ E. It’s also surprise follow-up to Los Thuthanaka, their standout collaborative album with their brother, Joshua Chuquimia Crampton, that Joshua Minsoo Kim called “a dizzying…
