It was only a matter of time before Ben Gibbard, singer of such anthems of death and doom as “I Will Follow You Into the Dark,” “Transatlanticism,” and “We Will Become Silhouettes,” wrote a song about, well, all this. That time is today, when the Death Cab for Cutie and Postal Service bandleader — who’s […]
As if Rosalía’s music didn’t already have us longing for a life we’ve never known, her new song “Dolerme” does not help. Dropping right as people settle into their social distancing, the love song about a fiery on-again, off-again relationship is not helping this whole “isolated” thing. If you’re lucky enough to have a quaran-crush, […]
Thank goodness a gathering of four people is still okay in these times, because Hayley Williams just dropped her new song featuring the three members of boygenius. “Roses/Lotus/Violet/Iris” is Williams’s latest offering to precede her first solo album, Petals for Armor. The former Paramore singer was supposed to release a second EP-sized chunk of the […]
The Demi Lovato Come Back Tour continues. After over a year out of the limelight due to a relapse in July of 2018, Demi Lovato has spent 2020 reclaiming her space as one of pop music’s most talented vocalists. It began with an emotionally devastating and vocally flawless performance of her ballad “Anyone” at the […]
You are cordially invited to the premiere of #NeverWornWhite ? Join me on the @YouTube watch page tonight at 8:30pm PT and chat with me (promise not a bot! ?) before the video premieres at 9pm PT! pic.twitter.com/igYGhBKqWH — KATY PERRY (@katyperry) March 4, 2020 Listen. We don’t want to speculate wildly here, but are […]
Ring the alarm and warm up the fiddle section, the Dixie Chicks’ newest song is finally here. “Gaslighter” — which the band teased on social media in February with a dictionary description of the word, a noun meaning psychological manipulator who seeks to sow seeds of doubt, and a super-short audio clip of the trio […]
A long time ago, back before Selena Gomez and Justin Bieber got back together, before Trump was elected, and before we had TikTok to tell us what songs are good, Selena Gomez performed “Feel Me” on her Revival Tour in the summer of 2016 and fans were hooked. The unreleased track lived on solely through […]
The Weeknd is pivoting yet again from sad boy to goth boy with his new single, “After Hours,” the title track off his new album. The single, which clocks in at a hefty six minutes, arrives on the heels of his album title announcement, which dropped on Twitter last week. This all comes well after […]
YG and Kehlani think they’re on some Beyoncé and Jay-Z “Upgrade U–type stuff. The fairly new couple went all “The Carters” for their joint song “Konclusions.” Listen, it’s a good track, but it includes so much we, as a society, didn’t need to know about them. Starting right at the beginning of the song, with […]
It’s that feeling when you’re on a really bad date and realize “Well, thank goodness, I’m not doing this again.” In her new track “Let’s Be Friends,” Carly Rae Jepsen captures the awkwardness and frustration along with the liberating, chucking-deuces-up-as-you-walk-out-the-door freedom of breaking up with a short-term somebody. All that to say, congratulations to gay […]
Megan Thee Stallion and Phony Ppl knew exactly what they were doing releasing a joint about cheating two weeks before Valentine’s Day. The Brooklyn-based band and the Houston-born rapper finally dropped the studio version of “Fkn Around,” which they debuted on Megan Thee Stallion’s Tiny Desk Concert. The song laughs about young people messing around […]
Taylor Swift’s got her Shiv Roy political-consultant turtleneck on. Swift, famously, publicly apolitical until recently, urges you to get out there and participate in democracy on her new track “Only the Young.” The song, which was written and released exclusively for her new Netflix documentary Miss Americana, encourages young people to get involved in politics. […]
Paramore’s journey from the beefy pop-punk of “Emergency” and “That’s What You Get” to the soul and pop-rock moves of “Ain’t It Fun” and “Hard Times” is a surprising turn, but not an unlikely one. You could sort of see a singer with the immense chops of a Hayley Williams not wanting to be confined […]
Louis Tomlinson just dropped the music video for the titular track off his debut album, Walls, and the song is every bit as slow and introspective as the video’s barren desert landscape suggests. The single is easy listening, lonely pop rock reminiscent of the 2000s (think early Green Day, but with an inspirational, self-help slant). […]
If you were wondering why Darren Aronofsky’s 2010 Academy Award nominated drama Black Swan was trending on Twitter Friday morning, you really need to update your references. (If you were wondering why Odile, the black swan from Tchaikovsky’s ballet, Swan Lake, was trending, we have no notes for you; you’re perfect.) And don’t worry, there […]
The Jonas Brothers have wedded the women/brands of their dreams, and they’re not afraid to make another music video about it! This one is in the style of “thank u, next,” a shot-for-shot remake of the very concept of love itself. The JoBros recreated scenes from the classic films — Risky Business, Say Anything, and […]
Marshall Mathers looked at a crowded field of surprise record releases and said “Room for one more?” Eminem has dropped a secret album on us all, entitled Music to Be Murdered By. That’s right, Eminem’s music is so dangerous and edgy that it will kill you! To death! Like that musical note that makes you […]
If anyone’s looking for a particularly devastating song to do for karaoke in front of an ex, I recommend Halsey’s latest single. In “You should be sad,” she sings “I’m so glad I never, ever had a baby with you/Cuz you can’t love someone unless there’s something in it for you.” Damn! Halsey made yeehaw […]
Ozzy Osbourne’s collaboration-heavy new album, Ordinary Man, features some semi-likely collaborators. Post Malone, Slash, the drummer from the Red Hot Chili Peppers that looks like Will Ferrell. But on the title track, Ozzy is sharing the mic with none other than Sir Elton John. Whodathunkit? In the 70’s, these two working together would most likely […]
Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) is just adding superwoman after superwoman to the team. Normani and Megan Thee Stallion dropped the first single off the film’s soundtrack, concurrently with the release of all the other artists who will appear on the album. Besides Normani and Megan, we’ll have Doja Cat, Saweetie, […]
Superfly’s Director X has provided us with another music video where Drake meets the masses. Only this time, he’s one of them. The video for “Life is Good” shows Future and featured performer Drake trying out menial labor for a change. If you’ve ever wondered what Future and Drake would look like as -Garbage Men–Apple […]
Reggaeton phenom J. Balvin gave us the second in his “Colores” series of singles with “Morado.” If you can’t tell from the Prince-level violet that permeates the video, morado means “purple” in Spanish. Balvin sits atop a purple and gold throne (with purple ottoman,” kicks it with purple lawn ornaments in front of a CGI-enhanced […]
A new decade means new things to be nostalgic about, and The Strokes are ready to capitalize on your baby baseball tee reveries. Julian Casablancas let Brooklyn’s Barclays Center know that a new album is coming. “2020, here we come,” he said. “We took the two-thousand-ten’s, whatever they’re called, we took ‘em off. But now […]