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A LA SALA
In 2020, at the height of the pandemic, Khruangbin released their third studio album, Mordechai, a disco-funk reprieve with the unusual, yet welcome, addition of vocals from bassist Laura Lee. Four years later, the trio returns with the stripped-down A LA SALA, a stark change in direction and scale from their last few albums. Khruangbin have always drawn inspiration from genres that span the globe and transport the listener to its far-flung corners. This time around, they squeeze all those influences into a universally beloved place: home.
Coachella 2024 Lineup & Schedule: All the Set Times You Need to Know
The first weekend of the 2024 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival begins in Indio, California, on Friday, April 12. With just a few days until kickoff, the complete schedule has been revealed. See the stage and set time breakdown below. Lana Del Rey, Tyler, the Creator, and Doja Cat...
Fuerza Regida Announce U.S. Arena Tour
Fuerza Regida have announced a U.S. arena tour. The Pero No Te Anamores Tour begins in June and stretches into November. See the band’s tour dates below. Fuerza Regida released their latest album, Pa las Baby’s y Belikeada, in October. For Pitchfork’s “The Best Music by Latine and Spanish Artists in 2023,” Julianne Escobedo Shepherd called the album “a 30-song sierreño epic detailing a seedy millennial underworld of parties inside compounds with armed guards, high-stakes gamblers, and babes with big asses.”
The Roots Announce U.S. Tour With Arrested Development and Digable Planets
The Roots will tour with Arrested Development and Digable Planets this summer. The groups will all appear at the Roots’ inaugural Los Angeles edition of Roots Picnic, which, like the tour, is subtitled Hip-Hop Is the Love of My Life. The U.S. jaunt begins in earnest in August in Houston, Texas in August, and wraps two weeks later in Boston, Massachusetts. Check out the itinerary below.
Pandora
No one can tear TikTok scrollers away from their cherished dust bunny shoegaze—not fatigue, not the U.S. Senate. Gen Z loves the ashen ’90s rock subgenre as dearly as a worn pair of Uggs, and through TikTok, they’ve helped facilitate its contemporary revival. But if every teen were suited to spreading the good word, there’d be fewer paintings of Joan of Arc. Not everyone can have the reach of 19-year-old Natalie Lu, known as Wisp, whose 2023 debut single “Your face” led to thousands of TikTok plays and, now, Interscope releasing her first EP, Pandora.
We Belong
On his new album, Ahmed Gallab, the Sudanese-born, New York-based multi-instrumentalist behind Sinkane, embodies the sense of deep pain and great joy that powers the sound of Black liberation. From the earliest spirituals to the first civil rights songs, the uplifting power of gospel to the cathartic energy of funk, Black music resonates with this profound duality, serving as a fundamental tool of resistance—a loud, proud refusal to comply with the expectations of a world that seeks to oppress. On We Belong, Sinkane uphold this legacy, smashing through constraints with revolutionary exuberance. The fact that so many civil rights anthems remain as relevant today as they were in the 1960s could be cause for sorrow, but Gallab chooses to celebrate the beauty in the struggle—most of all, the role of community and togetherness in driving it forward.
The Great Fire of Beatenberg
There was an admission implicit in the title of the South African trio Beatenberg’s 2022 EP On the way to Beatenberg: The group had yet to arrive at a sound. Over 19 minutes, they experimented with baroque guitar and Auto-Tune; they flirted with EDM uplift and Balearic haze. But Beatenberg’s core remained indie pop, refracted through guitarist and lead singer Matthew Field’s lifelong love of maskandi and mbaqanga. Their serene rumbas can make the group’s music feel out of time, not just in America (where a dusty mental shelf might hold them alongside Dirty Projectors, Paul Simon, and Vampire Weekend) but also at home, where amapiano and its many varieties are the hot pop export. When Beatenberg dabble in dance, it’s generally to add Zulu folk flavor to someone else’s production. A decade ago, they collaborated with fellow countryman DJ Clock on the tropical-house smash “Pluto (I Remember You).” In 2021, Beatenburg popped up on RUMBLE IN THE JUNGLE—the continent-spanning collaboration between producers Scorpion Kings and Tresor—to get pensive on the Afropiano song “Dust in the Wind.”
Keith LeBlanc, Drummer on Grandmaster Flash and Sugarhill Gang Songs, Dies at 69
Keith LeBlanc, the Tackhead drummer, producer, and session musician best known for his work on classic hip-hop songs by Grandmaster Flash and Sugarhill Gang, died on Thursday (April 4) due to an undisclosed illness, his wife Fran LeBlanc told Variety. He was 69. “All of us at On-U Sound are...
Billie Eilish Announces New Album Hit Me Hard and Soft: Watch the Trailer
Billie Eilish has officially announced her long-teased third studio album. The new album, Hit Me Hard and Soft, is out May 17 via Darkroom and Interscope. Watch a trailer for the LP below. Scroll down for the album artwork. Eilish wrote Hit Me Hard and Soft with her brother, Finneas,...
Deerhoof’s Greg Saunier Announces Debut Solo Album, Shares Video for New Song: Watch
Deerhoof drummer Greg Saunier has announced his debut solo album: We Sang, Therefore We Were arrives on April 26 via Joyful Noise. Saunier has shared the new LP’s lead single, “Grow Like a Plant,” on which he handles vocals, guitar, and bass over the exact type of maniacal drum work on which he’s built his name. The song comes with a music video featuring dancer Sophie Daws moving along to the beat in a wig; watch it below.
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