Andy Butler has announced his first Hercules & Love Affair project since 2022’s In Amber. He’ll release a new EP called Someone Else Is Calling on December 12 via Stratasonic. The EP’s title song is a collaboration with Elín Ey (the Icelandic singer also known as Hips & Lips) and producer Quinn Whalley (of Paranoid…
It’s been 17 years since Andy Butler’s disco-house project Hercules & Love Affair teamed up with ANOHNI for the classic single “Blind.” ANOHNI also made a bunch of appearances on the last Hercules & Love Affair album, 2022’s In Amber. Today, we’re getting another new H&LA track, as well as some news about an upcoming…
Magdalena Bay have released another pair of new songs: “This Is the World (I Made It for You)” and “Nice Day” follow three other double-singles the band has shared in the autumn. Listen to the new tracks below. Mica Tenenbaum and Matthew Lewin kicked off their recent run of productivity, in late September, with “Second…
Sometimes artists just spell it out for you. “I’m very pro-comfort zone,” singer-songwriter Olivia Dean told Elle, promoting her new album The Art Of Loving and its sleepy sleeper hit “Man I Need.” The single, already a #1 hit in the UK, recently went top 5 in the United States as well. That’s maybe a…
Fans of grizzled country vignettes would be hard-pressed to find a safer pair of hands than Colter Wall, the Saskatchewan-raised singer-songwriter whose traditional approach to the song form has alienated him from the modern country establishment, but, ironically, won a loyal underground following. As the title suggests, his Little Songs follow-up, Memories and Empties, treads…
David Coverdale is retiring from music. The Whitesnake frontman and onetime Deep Purple vocalist made the announcement today in a video to his fans. “Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, brothers and sisters of the snake, a special announcement for you,” he began, continuing: After 50 years-plus of an incredible journey with you, with Deep…
Avalon Emerson has shared a new song. “Eden” is the DJ and producer’s first release under her Avalon Emerson & the Charm moniker since her 2023 dream-pop album of the same name. It’s out on Dead Oceans and arrives with a music video directed by Ben Turok. Watch it below. “‘Eden’ is the voyage along…
The Wicked: For Good press cycle has not been kind to Ariana Grande. The star was unable to make the movie premiere in São Paulo last week due to flight issues, and subsequently faced a wave of death threats from fans. Yesterday, she was walking the red carpet at the film’s Singapore premiere when she…
As part of the 2025 Latin Grammy Awards, Karol G and former Los Los Bukis frontman Marco Antonio Solís performed their Tropicoqueta duet “Coleccionando Heridas” live for the first time. The duo were accompanied by a live band and broke out some salsa dancing. Watch their performance below. Karol G was up for three awards…
Last month, I saw 2hollis at New York’s Terminal 5 and it was one of the best, sweatiest shows I’d ever been to thanks to the nonstop energy. It turns out the hyperpop rapper is only upping the ante; he’s back today with a seismic rage-rap anthem called “DOGS,” which is co-produced with F1lthy. “DOGS”…
