Kelly Rowland is craving some coffee. In her first single since 2019’s anti-bullying song “Crown,” Rowland sings an ode to “coffee and sex in the morning.” “Hmm, they say mornin’ wood do a body good, babe,” she sings. “Clearly you agree, don’t be tryin’ to leave / Stay here with me.” Oop! So, that’s why […]
Quaran-who? Armed with a face mask in his new album art, DaBaby is not letting the coronavirus pandemic stop him. The rapper just announced that his upcoming album, Blame It on Baby, is out this Friday, April 17. That’s seven months after his last album, Kirk, and just 13 after his debut album, Baby on […]
N.O.R.E. is pretty busy with his Drink Champs podcast nowadays, but he’s still finding time to make new music. The veteran rapper has linked up with Grammy Award-winning production team J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League for a collaborative EP titled Patio Furniture. The Capone-N-Noreaga MC’s five-track project is the follow-up to 2018’s 5E album. Raekwon, Dave East, Emanny, […]
Have you ever seen the moon bark back at the dog? Have you ever had orgasms in the double digits, digits, digits, digits? Only one of these important questions is asked during “SexBeat” – the new song featuring the old “Yeah” trio Usher, Lil Jon, and Ludacris which dropped at midnight on Friday, April 10. […]
Did the Strokes know something we didn’t? At midnight on Friday April 10, the NYC rock band released their first studio album in 7 years, aptly titled The New Abnormal. After headlining Governor’s Ball in 2019 and debuting a new song “The Adults Are Talking,” the Strokes began dropping hints at a New Year’s Eve […]
Tanya Morgan is planning to release an album this summer, but the duo isn’t making their fans wait until then for new music. Donwill and Von Pea have dropped the Be Right Back EP as an appetizer to the main course coming later this year. “We recorded this EP about two weeks ago and it […]
And just like that, Selena Gomez’s latest album Rare is now available in a deluxe edition. The singer announced that she was adding a new track “Boyfriend” and two unreleased songs, “She” and “Souvenir” to the deluxe edition of Rare just this past Monday. Now, four days later, the bops have arrived and they brought […]
Dear April, thank you for showering us with new acoustic Frank Ocean tracks to multiple streaming platforms. At midnight on April 3rd, the ever elusive Frank Ocean released “Dear April” and “Cayendo” to the general public. The tracks, first heard during a broadcast of his Beats 1 radio show “blonded RADIO” and at his misbegotten […]
Say what you will about Frank Ocean, but the man knows great timing when he sees it. Frank previewed two new singles, “Dear April” and “Cayendo,” back in October, during a broadcast of his Beats 1 radio show “blonded RADIO.” Now, in our time of need, Frank is back with the full versions of the […]
The constant stream of concert cancellations and festival postponements in the face of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic can be a bitter pill to swallow, not to mention the weeks of social distancing, but Jeremy Renner is here to remind you: he’s not locked in here with us. We’re locked in here with him. Oh, and […]
You know when you first wake up, so you brain is still scrambling to put two and two together and you come up with seemingly brilliant ideas like a Cardi B remake of Emma? That has to be how Bob Dylan’s 17-minute long song about the JFK assassination came to be. The legendary musician just […]
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, […]
In normal, not panic-inducing, world-sinking news (unless you’re Bella Hadid), the Weeknd is back with a brand new album. Amid government orders to stay indoors, the Weeknd reminds you just how fun partying is … most of the time. The music video for After Hours single “Blinding Lights” follows the singer through a rough night […]
The artist formally known as Childish Gambino, Donald Glover, blessed the world by dropping a surprise new album this morning, called Donald Glover Presents. (On livestream, no less.) The 12 song LP features your usual adult legends — Ariana Grande, SZA, and 21 Savage — but the standout guest artist might actually be Glover’s own […]
Jay Electronica’s debut album, A Written Testimony, which took a decade to finish, has made it to Tidal five full days ahead of schedule. On February 7, the elusive rapper popped out of nowhere to announce on Twitter that he had been in the studio with his mentor, Jay-Z, for the past 40 days and […]
Something’s got Jay-Z in his bag. The rapper works through his feelings on nearly every song on his protégé Jay Electronica’s decade-in-the-making debut album A Written Testimony. He confronts the idea of his own death, mourns loved ones, and tries to inspire others — all in-between flexing. Despite what some of his other lyrics say, […]
Lil Uzi Vert just went back-to-back. A week after releasing his highly anticipated album Eternal Atake, Lil Uzi Vert just dropped another album. Eternal Atake (Deluxe) – LUV vs. the World 2 is both a deluxe version of his recent drop and a sequel to his 2016 mixtape, Lil Uzi Vert vs. the World. Unlike Eternal […]
The Weeknd showed up to Saturday Night Live in full costume, but it wasn’t funny business. It was very serious world-building business. The singer debuted his new single “Scared to Live” with Oneohtrix Point Never on SNL sporting a red suit, wingback shoes, black gloves, and a very realistic, bandaged bloody nose. It’s his new […]
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 […]
Did Bad Bunny not see his shadow or something? Because his new album is coming up quick, just like spring. The Puerto Rican rapper announced his album title, cover art, and release date on The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon. YHLQMDLG is out Saturday, February 29, Leap Day. “Saturday sounds so far,” Bad Bunny stops […]
Remember that catchy song that leaked about three weeks ago that you absolutely did not under any circumstances listen to because that would be music piracy and you would never do that? Well lucky for you patient and law-abiding little monsters, the music video for Lady Gaga’s first single “Stupid Love” off her highly anticipated […]
What it all comes down to is that singer-songwriter Alanis Morissette has both written and sung a new single for your listening enjoyment. “Smiling” will appear on her new album Such Pretty Forks in the Road, and it does that fun indie thing of having a name like “Smiling” and being in a very minor […]
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 […]
Wanna learn a new language? Click on BTS’ new “kinetic manifesto” video for “ON,” scroll through the comments, and pick a language. Any language. Fans across the the globe are freaking out over BTS’s new album Map of the Soul: 7 and visuals with the “ON” “Kinetic Manifesto Film: Come Prima.” Give the Army some […]
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 […]
If you like Bernie Sanders, but haven’t yet been compelled to get off your buns about it, The Strokes are hoping they can lure you to one of their chosen candidate’s Get Out the Vote rallies with the promise of new music. And if not, you can enjoy it from the comfort of your own […]
Because her Rock Hall induction wasn’t the time or place for Janet Jackson to bust out a memorable performance and/or bring down the goddamned arena, we’ve got some good news as 2020 continues to swallow us whole. Jackson announced today that she’ll be embarking on an international tour in support of her upcoming album, both […]
When the composer Caroline Shaw needs a zone of gracious silence, the kind of place where she can be alone with the music in her mind, she takes refuge in the Rose Reading Room at the New York Public Library. It’s a terrible place for an interview, though, so we meet in the lobby and […]
While the world is still reeling from the loss of Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna, Bad Bunny channeled his grief into a new song, “6 Rings.” Bad Bunny, real name Benito Ocasio, shared the song on SoundCloud late Monday night. It opens with sound bites from Kobe Bryant’s legendary 81-point game against the Toronto […]
She didn’t get an Oscar nomination for the Cats song, but Taylor Swift is not giving up on that Best Original Song award. Taylor Swift’s upcoming Netflix documentary, Miss Americana, chronicles her pivot to politics and shows Swift writing “an anthem for millennials who might have come away disillusioned with the political process,” Variety reports, […]