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Ice Spice to Make Acting Debut in Spike Lee’s New Movie High and Low
Spike Lee will introduce Ice Spice, the actor, in his new movie High and Low, Variety reports. Adapted from the Akira Kurosawa classic, the A24 and Apple Original Films production has already begun filming, Apple noted yesterday. Denzel Washington stars in the movie, resuming the ongoing partnership with Lee that started in 1990 with Mo’ Better Blues. This will be their first film together since 2006’s Inside Man.
Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace
Shabaka Hutchings’ tenor saxophone shows up exactly once on this album. Around 10 minutes before the LP ends, he summons the fierce momentum and sandpapery grit that have powered beloved bands like Sons of Kemet, the Comet Is Coming, and Shabaka and the Ancestors, and helped to make him one of the most celebrated jazz musicians of the past decade. As is usually the case when Shabaka—now billed by first name only—picks up what he has called the “big, loud, shiny horn,” the solo is thrilling. But this brief, incendiary statement carries a special weight in the wake of Shabaka’s announcement—made on New Year’s Day 2023 and clarified that summer—that he would be taking an indefinite hiatus from the tenor and his groups that feature that instrument.
Eleven Fugues for Sodium Pentothal
There’s something distinctly Texan about Adam Wiltzie’s music. With the late Brian McBride, the drone titan co-founded Stars of the Lid in 1993, releasing seven albums of ambient music as wispy and ethereal as a desert mirage. Though he’s lived in Belgium for nearly 25 years, he continues to produce music that suggests both the nearly incomprehensible vastness of the American West and the dread secrets it seems to contain. His new album Eleven Fugues for Sodium Pentothal sounds somewhere between a Western soundtrack and an emanation from an underground gas-mining operation, with tails of reverb from electric guitars bleeding into miasmas of strings and horns. Perhaps it’s time to think of Wiltzie in the tradition of European artists—the Wim Wenders of Paris, Texas, the Daft Punk of Electroma—fascinated with America’s enormity in contrast to the compact continent across the pond.
Mister Cee, New York Radio DJ and Notorious B.I.G. Producer, Dies at 57
Calvin LeBrun, the New York radio DJ best known as Mister Cee, has died, the hip-hop station Hot 97 reports, citing his family. A cause of death has not been revealed. Mister Cee was 57 years old. Mister Cee grew up in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, and, in 1988, he took part...
Amen Dunes Announces Tour Dates, Shares New “Round the World” Video: Watch
Amen Dunes has released another single from his new album. The new song, “Round the World,” follows Death Jokes’ “Purple Land” and “Boys,” and it comes with a video directed by Steven Brahms (the director behind the “Believe” and “Miki Dora” visuals). Watch the video below.
Aerosmith Reschedule Farewell Tour for Fall 2024
Last year, Aerosmith began a farewell tour that they had to call off after just three shows due to frontman Steven Tyler’s damaged vocal cords and fractured larynx. The band has now announced the rescheduled dates for the Peace Out Tour. The journey begins anew in September. See Aerosmith’s tour dates below.
The Bug and KMRU Announce Album, Share New Song “Differ”: Listen
Kevin Richard Martin, aka the Bug, has joined forces with Joseph Kamaru, aka KMRU, for a new album as KRM & KMRU. The electronic musicians will release Disconnect, via Phantom Limb, on June 14, and you can listen to the single “Differ” below. In press materials, Martin said...
New Alan Vega Album Insurrection Announced
Insurrection, a new collection of previously unreleased material by late Suicide co-founder Alan Vega, has been announced. The 11-song LP lands May 31 via In the Red, and it includes lead single “Mercy,” which is out today. The song arrives with a music video directed by the Jesus and Mary Chain’s Douglas Hart, starring models Mateen Ismail and Helena Gawrzyalska. Check it out below.
Portishead’s Beth Gibbons Shares Interactive Video for New Song “Reaching Out”: Watch
Portishead’s Beth Gibbons has shared a new song, “Reaching Out,” from her forthcoming, debut solo album Lives Outgrown. It comes with a Weirdcore-directed video in which Gibbons hurtles through digital outer-space. In the interactive version, viewers can drag the cursor to spin the perspective, creating “a sense of trying to reach each other in impossible ways,” a press release explains. Check that out on the song’s website, and watch the static video below.
The Knife’s Olof Dreijer Remixes Björk and Rosalía’s “Oral”: Listen
The Knife’s Olof Dreijer has remixed Björk and Rosalía’s “Oral,” the song the pair released in November to support the fight against environmentally unsound salmon-farming operations in Iceland. Listen to Dreijer’s take below. Björk wrote on X, “i am so extremely thrilled that...
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.
FearDorian
FearDorian beats are potent enough to leave you with a contact high. Their enveloping chaos feels structured, as if you synced playback on two completely different songs until they formed an alien vibe of their own. Like his stylistic forebears-turned-collaborators in Surf Gang—Dorian used to make dance videos set to the collective’s songs on Triller—rap, indie rock, and vaporwave are clear influences. Bending those sounds into different shapes and sizes is the 17-year-old rapper-producer’s default zone. This is a kid who’s sampled Amy Winehouse for a Milwaukee rap track, who pulls as much inspiration from Midwest emo records and James Ferraro as he does from Chicago rapper-producer Lucki. Take the droning guitars and booming trap drums that power Seattle rapper Ghoulaveli’s 2019 single “no!,” or how the addition of twinkling strings to the synthetic claps on AyooLii’s “Andele” makes it just a bit zanier. Dorian’s production reflects the borderless imagination of the postmodern rap internet while remaining solid enough to not dissolve in its own haze.
Watch Lady Gaga as Harley Quinn in Joker: Folie à Deux’s First Trailer
The first trailer for Joker: Folie à Deux, the Joker sequel starring Lady Gaga opposite Joaquin Phoenix, arrived today. The clip shows Phoenix’s Joker and Gaga’s Harley Quinn meeting in Gotham City’s Arkham Asylum. Check it out below, ahead of the film’s release on Friday, October 4, 2024.
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...
Might Delete Later
Evidently, J. Cole is not the kind of rapper he would like to be. Since the beginning of his career at the peak of the blog era, the North Carolina native has staked his reputation on being an out-and-out, bar-for-bar rapper’s rapper, the model for the genre, the control in the experiment. Though a talented singer with a pliable voice, he’s always been reverent (sometimes to a fault) of legends from the 1990s and early 2000s, writing about his life in long, mythic arcs and dotting his albums with radio singles that are anchored by neuroses and character details seeded on his earliest mixtapes. He delivers all of this in a manner designed to clear space for determined bursts of setup-punchline showmanship—a magnetic mode if you can hack it. Cole often cannot.
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.”
Outkast’s André 3000, Kamasi Washington, Laufey, and More to Perform at Newport Jazz Festival 2024
Seventy years after its inaugural edition, the Newport Jazz Festival is back for a weekend in Rhode Island this summer. Performing at the festival, which takes place from August 2 to 4 at Fort Adams State Park, are André 3000, Kamasi Washington, Laufey, Elvis Costello, Brittany Howard, Nile Rodgers & Chic, Meshell Ndegeocello, Makaya McCraven, Kassa Overall, Samara Joy, Robert Glasper, Shabaka, PJ Morton, Noname, Amaro Freitas, and many others. See the full lineup in the poster below.
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.
Kathleen Hanna Taps Molly Ringwald, Amy Poehler, and More as Book Tour Moderators
Kathleen Hanna’s memoir, Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk, is out April 14, and, today, the Bikini Kill, Le Tigre, and the Julie Ruin frontperson has announced an illustrious moderator lineup for the book tour. Molly Ringwald, Amy Poehler, former Pitchfork editor-in-chief Puja Patel, and the poet and music writer Hanif Abdurraqib will each moderate a stop, with Lindy West, Brontez Purnell, Mira Jacob, Fabi Reyna, Imani Perry, and Hari Kondabalou taking the reins elsewhere.
Watch Tyla Perform “Art” on Colbert
Tyla made her debut appearance on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert last night. The South African R&B and amapiano singer performed “Art,” taken from the self-titled debut album she released last month, with a troupe of dancers. Check it out below. Tyla launched into her album promotion...
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