Six month ago Peter Buck (R.E.M., the Minus 5) and Barrett Martin (Screaming Trees, Mad Season) unveiled the debut album from the Silverlites, their supergroup with the Black Crowes’ Rich Robinson and singer-songwriter Joseph Arthur. Now Buck and Martin are announcing another supergroup called Drink The Sea with Alain Johannes and Duke Garwood.
In October, it was revealed that Alana Haim’s next acting gigs would be Kelly Reichardt’s The Mastermind and Kristoffer Borgli’s The Drama. Now, as Haim are rolling out their new album I quit, a teaser clip for The Mastermind is here.
Last week 2hollis featured on his pal nate sib’s new EP for us. Now the hyperpop rapper is producing and appearing on his friend’s rommulas’ new tune “left to right,” which came out yesterday.
In 2022, Torche broke up after singer-guitarist Steve Brooks revealed he was leaving the band. Now, the stoner metal outfit is back with the announcement of a reunion show in London.
So far, guests for Kendrick Lamar and SZA’s Grand National Tour have been Playboi Carti, Baby Keem, Kaytranada, and Lizzo. They expanded the list last night (May 23) at the second Inglewood, CA show when SZA brought out Justin Bieber for their SOS remix collab “Snooze,” and cradled his face in her hand, at SoFi Stadium.
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Back in February, for reasons still unclear, Bob Dylan posted an old video of Machine Gun Kelly rapping in a record store on his Instagram. When he’s not posting on social media, he’s been spending the past few days on Willie Nelson’s Outlaw Festival Tour, and last night in Spokane he brought out tourmate Billy Strings to do “All Along The Watchtower” with him. But more surprisingly: We have enough evidence to conclude that Bob Dylan and Machine Gun Kelly have almost certainly met in person.
The Belfast rap group Kneecap have always been politically outspoken, and lately that outspokenness has involved some major career tumult. During Coachella’s first weekend, the group’s messages condemning Israel’s genocidal ethnic cleansing campaign in Gaza were censored on the festival’s official livestream, so for the fest’s second weekend they got Twitch streamer Hasan Piker come onstage with them to broadcast their show on his own feed.
“I’m from the UK, you know.” This phrase, repeated incessantly and accented with the words “UK daddy,” becomes the core of Love Remain’s infectious new techno/house track. The mysterious producer has given us “U.K” at the dawn of the summer, and it feels like something that could send the season’s dance parties spinning out of control. Take it for a spin yourself below.
Following his historic MSG residency, 76-year-old Billy Joel has still kept himself busy with quite a few stadium shows in the past few months. He was supposed to embark on another US/UK tour this year, but now all of those dates have been canceled due to Joel’s recent normal pressure hydrocephalus diagnosis. Also called NPH, it’s when cerebrospinal fluid builds up in your skull and presses on your brain.