Shortly before the pandemic began, Black Sabbath were celebrating 50 years of their debut album and revealed the identity of the “witch” on the cover. It was Louisa Livingstone, who models, acts, and makes electronic music under the moniker Indreba. She recently released Alice, a psychedelic rock opera about AI made with the help of AI.
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Snoop Dogg is one of the musical artists coming up in the biopic pipeline. It’s called Snoop, and it’s set for release on Aug. 6, 2027, with Hustle & Flow‘s Craig Brewer directing. The film’s been in development since at least 2022, and last year Jonathan Daviss was cast as Calvin Broadus himself. Since then, a bunch of other key roles have been cast, including Myles Bullock as Dr. Dre, Algee Smith as Warren G, Camron Jones as Tupac Shakur, Tre Hale as Suge Knight, Corey Champagne as Nate Dogg, Olly Sholotan as Kurupt, Jonica Booth as the Lady Of Rage, Laya DeLeon Hayes as Snoop’s wife Shante Broadus, and Lauren London as his mother Beverly Tate.
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The death toll for this year’s Burning Man has risen to three. The first death was confirmed on Friday (Sept. 4) after Sampson Tshombe, who was in his mid-50s, suffered a medical emergency. The second was confirmed on Saturday (Sept. 5) when Craigh Mann, 60, was found dead in his camp. On Monday (Sept. 7), the final day of the festival, a third death was confirmed.
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How Strange It Is release their second album There Is No Evil next month, and it’s going to be a treat. The Portland band reeled us in with the shoegazey pop-rock chaos of “Slime,” which posed a compelling contrast to its whispery, Sparklehorse-indebted followup single “Tough Luck.” Now, we get the sly, engrossing “Holladay Park,” which, despite being under two minutes, contains seismic levels of catharsis in its huge chorus, with guitars that come crashing in hard enough to knock you off your feet. Dive in below.
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The five members of Bone Thugs-N-Harmony were honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame in July, and the group was announced as the support on Wu-Tang Clan’s latest farewell tour that began last month. But the ’90s rap legends have been taking the stage without Layzie Bone and Bizzy Bone, and both addressed the situation in new videos.
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Jon Small, who played drums in Billy Joel’s early bands the Hassles and Atilla and later became an accomplished director of music videos and concert films, has died. Joel announced his passing in a social media post today, and a death announcement circulating on social media notes he died Friday. His funeral will be held on Sept. 9 in Great Neck, New York. No cause of death has been listed.
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Macklemore has been loudly advocating for an end to Israel’s genocide in Gaza for years, but some Ed Sheeran fans are just now finding out about it. The Seattle rapper is currently opening for Sheeran on his North American stadium tour, and he’s using it as a platform to advocate for a free Palestine among other causes. In response, a pro-Israel group has launched a petition to get him removed from the tour.
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We were into “Control,” the recent single from Oakland “queer post-bubblegum slut grunge” crew Heavy Lifter, and I’d argue “Backyard” is even better. Out today via the great Cherub Dream label, the song begins with an eerie guitar line that reminds me of Metallica’s “Fade To Black.” But by the time Ren Forest’s moonbeam voice is lighting the track, I’m hearing echoes of modern-day cult favorites like Forth Wanderers and Feeble Little Horse as well as a whole range of ’90s touchstones from emo to shoegaze. It’s got a basement show scrappiness to it, but at its climax, the song might as well be dive-bombing across the sky. Listen below.
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The fast and nasty Oakland hardcore band Cell Rot put out an album called Parasite last year, the first half of a two-part project recorded with the iconic punk and metal producer Jack Shirley. Soon they’ll drop the second half, Paradise. On opening track and lead single “Paradise/Parasite II,” they hammer home the resemblance between those two words and the relationship between the concepts. “Paradise! Searchin’ for your paradise!” growls vocalist Kyle. “Parasite! You’re feedin’ like a parasite!”
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Lancaster, PA trio American Motors impressed us with their 2024 debut Content. Now they’re back to announce another album of scraping, pounding, ominous underground rock music. For Functional Music, out in November, the band once again recorded with the legendary J Robbins at his Magpie Cage studio in Baltimore, so Alex Steward’s drums thwack extra viscerally. Singer-guitarist Dustin White shared the following:
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