King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard are being cool as hell lately. The Australian psych-rock outfit released their 27th (!) studio album Phantom Island earlier this year, then gave a middle finger to Spotify and removed their music from the streaming service. Last night at their Buena Vista, Colorado festival Field Of Vision, they were joined by Jello Biafra for Dead Kennedys’ “Police Truck.”
The Oasis reunion hasn’t been without bumps. Last month Liam Gallagher apologized for posting a racial slur. A couple weeks ago a fan tragically fell to his death at one of the Wembley shows. Now, the frontman has been banned from throwing instruments into the crowd after an audience member sustained injuries from catching maracas.
SAULT, the Black British music collective that initially maintained a veil of secrecy around their operation, performed their second ever official live set today at the London music festival All Points East. Based on social media chatter from the gig, it started late and involved interstitial skits between songs, which seemingly were divisive among fans in attendance. The performance also included a guest appearance from Yasiin Bey, the rap elder formerly known as Mos Def. (A Filipino producer mashed up Bey and SAULT’s music in 2020, but that’s not what they performed.)
Ava Gore and producer Ethan P. Flynn have teamed up for a new project called Silver Gore. Both are accomplished musicians; the former has worked with FKA twigs, Nia Archives, and David Byrne, and the latter is a skilled drummer and classical vocalist who has worked with Black Country, New Road among others. After joining forces in 2021, the London-based duo is ready to release their debut EP Dogs In Heaven next month via Island Records. Today, they’ve shared two new singles “All The Good Men” and “Forever,” which are wildly different but both great for wildly different reasons.
Do you see Nicki Minaj up there, peeking devilishly over her own couture? That’s because she spotted pop-star beef unfolding, and the opportunity to insert herself into it was tantalizing. The photo was actually taken at this year’s Met Gala, but yeah. There’s a discourse going on, and Minaj has decided to partake.
It looks like it’s about to be Dominic Fike season. Since he released his 2023 album Sunburn, he’s returned to Euphoria for its third season, worked with Kevin Abstract on new music, and is now releasing some new stuff of his own. Fike is adamant that he’s not releasing a new album, but he does have a new mixtape on the way. It’s called Rocket, and it will be out one week from today via Columbia Records. He’s dropped three new singles “All Hands On Deck,” “Aftermath,” and “Smile” as a preview of the new project.
Last year Sean Kingston, the Miami-born, Jamaica-raised singer behind the 2007 #1 hit “Beautiful Girls,” was arrested along with his mother, Janice Turner, for more than $1 million worth of wire fraud. Shortly thereafter, we learned that Kingston might be facing years in prison for those crimes, and indeed, his mom was recently sentenced to five years following the pair’s conviction back in March for conspiracy to commit wire fraud and four counts of wire fraud. Now 35-year-old Kingston — real name Kisean Paul Anderson — has been sentenced too.
Speaking things into existence is a powerful tool, even if it’s just a casual comment to then-strangers on your first day at college orientation. It might initially seem insignificant, but when that comment becomes real years later, it feels like time folding in on itself – your future self catching up with your past self and vice versa. That’s the kind of spiritual déjà vu that comes to mind when I speak to Racing Mount Pleasant members Connor Hoyt, Kaysen Chown, Sam DuBose, and Sam Uribe about how their big-band folk rock project came together.
The culty, genre-blurring R&B artist has been on a crazy trajectory over the past few years. As a military brat, Dijon Duenas grew up all over the world, and I just found out that he and I went to the same high school in Ellicott City, Maryland. Nobody prominent went to that school; the prominent-alumni part of our Wikipedia page is a disaster. Go Eagles, anyway. Dijon started out as one half of the duo Abhi + Dijon, and then he contributed to records from people like Brockhampton and Charli XCX. He released his debut album Absolutely in 2021. That album wasn’t a blockbuster, but it’s been a sneakily huge influence on artists from across the pop spectrum. Today, Dijon releases his second album, and it seems primed to become a big deal. It’s also fucking awesome.
It’s been seven years and a whole lot of hits since Cardi B released her debut album Invasion Of Privacy, and album number two is finally coming out in about a month. Cardi’s sophomore LP Am I The Drama? will feature her recent single “Outside,” as well as the years-old hits “WAP” and “Up.” Today, Cardi shares another new single, and this one is a full-blown homage to a Jay-Z deep cut from 1997.