Category: Music

Fugees rapper Prakazrel “Pras” Michel has been sentenced to 14 years in prison after being found guilty of criminal conspiracy and illegal foreign lobbying, Billboard reports. Washington, D.C. federal judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly handed down the sentence on Thursday, November 20. Pras will serve 14 years out of a maximum 22, followed by three years of…

I associate Drugdealer, the musical project of Michael Collins, with a smooth yet vaguely sleazy form of 1970s singer-songwriter pop. Yet on “The News,” a new song paired with this year’s Weyes Blood collab “Real Thing” on a forthcoming 7″, Drugdealer dips into more of a ’60s vibe, channeling Beatles-era energy and craftsmanship. Collins worked…

Skrillex has surprise-released a new EP called Hit Me Where It Hurts X. The five-song project includes collaborations with Caroline Polachek and 100 gecs’ Dylan Brady (on the recently shared title song), Varg2™, Nakeesha, and others. Listen to Hit Me Where It Hurts X below. The Hit Me Where It Hurts X EP follows Skrillex’s…

Pras Michel, one-third of the acclaimed New Jersey rap trio the Fugees, was sentenced to 14 years in prison today, Billboard reports. In 2023, the performer known by the mononym Pras was convicted on charges of conspiracy and illegal foreign lobbying in a trial that featured testimony from Leonard DiCaprio and will be the subject…

The first teaser trailer for The Moment, the new A24 movie starring and conceived by Charli XCX, has arrived. In the clip, we get a preview of the pop star’s rapid ascent to the top during her Brat era, but told through a self-parody style: rehearsing a punch-like dance move in a mirror, the physically…

London’s Whitelands have so far previewed their new album Sunlight Echoes with the beautiful shoegaze earworms “Heat Of The Summer” and “Glance,” and today they’re back with another great one called “Songbird (Forever).” “It’s about my friends, the important people in my life, and my spirit,” singer-guitarist Etienne Quartey-Papafio says. “I was going through a…

Warner Music Group (WMG), Universal Music Group (UMG), and Sony Music Entertainment (SME) have signed new licensing deals with artificial intelligence (AI) music technology company Klay Vision Inc., making it the first AI music startup to land licensing deals with all three major record companies and their publishing companies. A press release claims Klay will…

Hazel English is Australian, not English. She’s currently based in Oakland, which is also not English. English is her last name and the language that she speaks, but as far as I can tell, it does not describe anything else about her. Back in 2016, Hazel English was a Stereogum Artist To Watch. Last year,…

Gary “Mani” Mounfield, the British musician who played bass in the Stone Roses and Primal Scream, has died. His brother, Greg, shared the news on Facebook, and Stone Roses frontman Ian Brown eulogized his former bandmate on X, writing, “REST IN PEACE MANi X.” A cause of death has not been announced. Mounfield was 63…

A couple of years ago, Tomb Mold guitarist Derrick Vella’s ambitiously progged-out side project Dream Unending released Starpath, a split LP with the gothy, over-the-top Miami black metal band Worm. Before that record, I must confess that I was unfamiliar with Worm’s game. But I liked what I saw in them — dramatic keyboards, splintered…