Category: Music

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…

The War on Drugs have announced the return of their annual Drugcember to Remember benefit concert series, which they started back in 2018. This year’s shows will take place from on December 18, 19, and 20 at the rock band’s favorite local venue: Johnny Brenda’s in Philadelphia. Proceeds from the concerts will benefit the Fund…

In 2019, Jason Williamson of Sleaford Mods initiated beef with fellow UK rockers IDLES by saying “they were appropriating, to a certain degree, a working class voice.” Joe Talbot responded shortly after, wondering, “What the fuck is wrong with the guy?” Now, the bands have made amends. Talbot invited Williamson onto his Oh Gatekeeper podcast and introduced…

Sacred Bones and the Vega Vault Project are reissuing the first two solo records by late Suicide co-founder Alan Vega. Remastered from the original tapes, 1980’s Alan Vega and 1981’s Collision Drive arrive January 23 on LP, 8-track, and, for the first time, digital streaming platforms. A deluxe, 2xLP edition of the self-titled album will…