Boston metalcore icons Converge have announced their first non-collaborative album in nearly nine years. Love Is Not Enough arrives February 13 via Deathwish Inc. and Epitaph Records. Leading the LP is the title track, which reckons with how to remain empathetic and compassionate in the modern world. Watch its music video below. Love Is Not…
Geese have been celebrating their critically acclaimed new album Getting Killed with a tour while collecting cosigns from greats like Patti Smith and Nick Cave. Last night the rising rockers broke out “Killing My Borrowed Time” from their 2023 4D Country EP. The tour concluded with two sold-out hometown shows at the Brooklyn Paramount, though…
This year’s Camp Flog Gnaw was originally planned for last weekend at LA’s Dodger Stadium, but extreme weather in the forecast prompted Tyler, The Creator to push the festival back a week. Unfortunately, this resulted in some artists like Clairo dropping from the event, but Kali Uchis, Blood Orange, Geese, Fakemink were all added. The…
Last year, Angélica Garcia released her third album Gemelo, which was her first LP of singing mostly in Spanish. Now, the experimental pop artist is back with a kaleidoscopic new track called “Butterfly.” “Butterfly” is produced by David Sitek and Ciel Eckard-Lee. On Instagram, Garcia wrote, “I can’t believe this one fr. I’m so so…
Jellybean Johnson, the founding drummer of Prince’s band the Time, has passed away. The musician born Garry George Johnson celebrated his birthday earlier this week, and his death was announced by his longtime friend and collaborator Sheila E., though the cause is still unknown. He was 69. On social media, Sheila wrote, “With a heavy heart,…
D4vd is under investigation in connection with the death of Celeste Rivas, according to TMZ and NBC4. Those reports cite anonymous law enforcement officials who declined to speak on the record; the Houston singer-songwriter born David Anthony Burke has not formally been named a suspect. Police instead hinted that they view D4vd as a suspect, suggesting…
It’s a big year for the Smashing Pumpkins. The band is celebrating three decades of their beloved album Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness with a goth Erewhon smoothie, a reissue with a 6xLP box set, and an opera with a 60-piece orchestra. The lyric opera is happening in the group’s hometown of Chicago, and…
Lifeguard have announced a new maxi-single that’s coming out next year. “Ultra Violence” / “Appetite” features 11 songs in a speedy 13 minutes, and will be out both digitally and as a limited 7″ vinyl on Matador. The record opens with the new song “Ultra Violence,” which Lifeguard are sharing today. Give that a listen…
This year, the energetic young Pennsylvania rapper/producer Eem Triplin released his debut album Melody Of A Memory and his Come Undone EP, became a XXL Freshman, and did a Stereogum interview. That’s a lot of activity, but the year isn’t over yet. Today, Triplin releases a new single called “If I Wanted To.” Eem Triplin…
Geese are the first act to play Nigel Godrich’s From the Basement series in almost three years. In a new episode of the iconic live-in-studio music series, the New York band, led by Cameron Winter, ran through a nearly 35-minute set of songs from the new album Getting Killed. Watch it below. Following its original…
