Early voting for New York City’s mayoral election began today, and Democratic candidate Zohran Mamdani secured an important cosign last night. He attended PinkPantheress at her tour kickoff at Brooklyn’s Kings Theatre and made a cameo on the big screen.
In August, Eiko Ishibashi and Jim O’Rourke released their latest LP Pareidolia. Now, the pair has released four live albums.
Many artists have been pulling their music from Spotify: Massive Attack, Xiu Xiu, Deerhoof, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Hotline TNT, WU LYF, Young Widows, and many more. It was originally in protest of CEO Daniel Ek’s massive investment in military AI, but musicians are even angrier after the streaming service started running ICE recruitment ads. Now Saetia are removing their material from the platform.
Last night the Warren Zevon tribute concert Join Me In L.A. went down in Los Angeles at the United Theater. The evening featured Jackson Browne, Fountains Of Wayne, Marshall Crenshaw, and more covering the legendary singer-songwriter with the Wild Honey Orchestra.
In 2023, the Drivin N Cryin cover compilation Let’s Go Dancing: A Celebration Of Kevn Kinney began rolling out. It’s still happening, and now R.E.M.’s Mike Mills is sharing a rendition of “Telling Stories” from 1995’s Wrapped In Sky.
Sabrina Carpenter is on tour celebrating her new album Man’s Best Friend. At ACL Fest the pop star brought out Shania Twain and “arrested” Djo as part of the “Juno” bit, and on Thursday (Oct. 23) she gave a live debut to “House Tour” in Pittsburgh.
Two years ago Say Anything released the Sufjan Stevens-inspired “Carrie & Lowell & Cody (Pendent)” from …Is Committed, an album frontman Max Bemis promised would satirize emo bands “trying to be the next Animal Collective or Strokes.” Now the band has followed that release with a surprise three-song EP called Is Sleazy, featuring covers of Animal Collective and the Strokes (and Yeah Yeah Yeahs).
They’re three for three! Next week, the great Texan DIY garage-punks Radioactivity will release Time Won’t Bring Me Down, their first new album in a full decade. They have not lost a step. We posted the title track and “Why,” and both of them are fucking jams. The same is true of “Analog Ways,” which is presumably the last song they’ll share before the LP. It’s a different kind of jam, though.
Have you pictured Megan Thee Stallion and Klay Thompson having sex, yet? Well, you’re about to. The rap star and the legendary NBA shooter have been an item for a minute, and Megan’s new single “Lover Girl” is a straight-up love song, presumably directed at Thompson. Since it’s a Megan Thee Stallion track, this particular love song involves some very specific bedroom talk. And yes, she does bring the word “Splash” into play.
We haven’t gotten a proper album from Sugar World since their 2022 debut, but the Los Angeles band has kept up a steady stream of music in the intervening years. Now they’re ready to roll out LP2.