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MTV Video Music Awards 2024 to Take Place at Long Island’s UBS Arena in September
There is a location, date, and time for the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards. The annual awards show will take place at 8 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time on Tuesday, September 10, at UBS Arena in Elmont, New York. “We are excited to welcome back the MTV Video Music Awards to...
Crumb Announce North American Tour, Share Video for New Song “The Bug”: Watch
Crumb have announced a headlining North American tour and unveiled another new song from their upcoming album, Amama. Titled “The Bug,” the track comes with a Haoyan of America–directed music video that’s filled with crawling insects. Watch it below. According to singer Lila Ramani, “The Bug”...
sentiment
Texan experimentalist claire rousay’s foray into melancholic, folk-inflected pop might surprise fans of her tactile collages of everyday sounds like jingling keys, overheard conversation, and suggestive murmur. Those better acquainted with the full extent of her sprawling catalog of self-described “emo ambient”—which spans hyperpop, text-to-speech recordings, and an unfinished Elliott Smith cover—might simply see this as another left turn. In fact, on sentiment, rousay brings together strands from her previous work into a revealing self-portrait, channeling her experimental musical language into the kind of earnest pop she evidently loves but until now has mostly shared as one-offs, swapping her habitually atmospheric ambient pieces for shorter, more melodic, lyrically driven slowcore songs.
A Chaos of Flowers
Over the past decade, Montreal trio BIG|BRAVE have released albums through both Southern Lord and Thrill Jockey, a track record that speaks to their fluency in both bone-shaking doom metal and post-rock experimentation. But their first language was folk music. In the years leading up to their tremorous 2014 debut, Feral Verdure, BIG|BRAVE founders Robin Wattie and Mathieu Ball performed early gigs as an acoustic-oriented duo. Even as they transitioned to electric instrumentation and loaded up on percussive firepower to become one of the most punishing and prolific bands in the contemporary avant-metal landscape, BIG|BRAVE’s emotional core has remained largely intact—in their hands, noise is simply a megaphone to amplify the unrest embedded in their songs from day one.
Neil Young & Crazy Horse Set for Eddie Vedder’s Ohana Festival 2024
Ohana Festival, the music festival that Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder founded in 2016, is back for three days in September. Headlining the first and third nights of the festival are Pearl Jam, and, on Saturday, Neil Young & Crazy Horse are the headliners. Ohana Festival takes place from September 27 to 29 at Doheny State Beach in Dana Point, California. See the festival’s poster below.
Tyler, the Creator, the Killers, Sturgill Simpson, Post Malone, and More Performing at Outside Lands 2024
The Outside Lands festival returns to Golden Gate Park from August 9 to 11. Headlining the San Francisco event are Tyler, the Creator, the Killers, and Sturgill Simpson. The festival will also feature the Postal Service, Grace Jones, Kaytranada, Jungle, Chris Lake, Gryffin, Snoh Aalegra, Schoolboy Q, Victoria Monét, Reneé Rapp, Slowdive, Chappell Roan, Channel Tres, the Lemon Twigs, Shaboozey, Corinne Bailey Rae, Real Estate, Romy, Amen Dunes, and many others. Plus, Post Malone will do a country set. Find the festival’s poster below.
Megan Thee Stallion Sued for Harassment and Hostile Work Environment
Megan Thee Stallion is facing a harassment lawsuit from a man who says he used to work as a cameraman for the Houston rapper. According to the complaint, filed in a California court and viewed by Pitchfork, Megan Thee Stallion’s “conduct created a hostile work environment for Plaintiff [Emilio Garcia], making the conditions of his employment intolerable in direct contravention of various statutes and state law decisions.”
Listen to St. Vincent’s New Song “Big Time Nothing”
St. Vincent is back with one more song from All Born Screaming before the album officially comes out this Friday, April 26. Listen to “Big Time Nothing” below. “Big Time Nothing” follows the previous All Born Screaming singles “Broken Man” and “Flea,” the latter featuring Dave Grohl on drums and Justin Meldal-Johnsen on bass. Annie Clark’s follow-up to Daddy’s Home also boasts contributions from Cate Le Bon, Josh Freese, Warpaint’s Stella Mozgawa, Rachel Eckroth, Mark Guiliana, and David Ralicke.
Brittany Howard and Michael Kiwanuka Announce Joint Tour
Alabama Shakes’ Brittany Howard and Michael Kiwanuka will embark on a joint tour of North America this autumn. The American and British singer-songwriters will bring Yasmin Williams along for the trek, which kicks off in Philadelphia in late September. Check out the dates below. Coincidentally, on Friday, April 19, Howard also released her song “Fire Inside” from the animated Netflix film Thelma the Unicorn. Scroll down to check that out, too.
Listen to CuzzosX5’s “Pop Out”: The Ones
Two specific moments turned me into a head of L.A. rap group Cuzzosx5. First it was their raunchy breakout single “Goochie Mayne”—in the tradition of YN Jay and Louie Ray’s “Coochie”—and the way they skewer the dudes in their DMs: “You niggas hoes/How the fuck you get a cut and now you outside with the bros?” Then it was the opening seconds of their video for “Young Wings,” where two members, Teawhyy and Milly Mo (the other three are BB, Jasscole, and Big I-N-D-O), argue about whether DayDay or Langston is the hottest guy in the Rangers, one of the central jerkin’ crews of the late 2000s and early 2010s. Not only is it a pretty funny scene, it stamps their music as L.A. shit through and through.
Paul McCartney & Wings’ One Hand Clapping Set for First Official Release
One Hand Clapping, the sought-after live album that Paul McCartney & Wings recorded in 1974, has been newly mixed for its first official release. It arrives June 14, on vinyl and CD, as well as digitally. The record will also stream in Dolby Atmos, mixed by Giles Martin and Steve Orchard.
Watch Mitski’s New Video for “Star”
Mitski has unveiled a new music video for her The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We song “Star.” The black-and-white clip is directed by frequent collaborator Maegan Houang, who’s behind Puberty 2’s “Happy” and Laurel Hell’s “The Only Heartbreaker” and “Stay Soft.” Watch the video, in which Mitski paddles a boat across a foggy lake at night, below.
Open Mike Eagle Announces Debut Previous Industries Album and Tour, Shares New Song: Listen
In January, Open Mike Eagle and frequent collaborators Video Dave and Still Rift announced their new group Previous Industries. At the time, they shared the tracks “Showbiz” and “Braids,” and they’ve now announced their debut album: Service Merchandise comes out June 28 via Merge. Check out the trio’s new single, “Pliers,” and its animated music video, a shot-for-shot remake of Jaws’ “Show me the way to go home” scene directed by Video Dave, below.
Zsela Announces Debut Album, Shares Video for New Song “Lily of the Nile”: Watch
Zsela has announced her debut album, along with a U.S. tour. Big for You arrives June 14 via Mexican Summer. The New York singer-songwriter’s LP features the new single “Lily of the Nile,” which comes accompanied by a video directed by Chester Raj Anand. Check out the video and tour dates below.
Niontay, RealYungPhil, and Surf Gang Join Forces in Video for New Song “Halftones”: Watch
Brooklyn-via-Florida rapper Niontay, Hartford cloud-rap star RealYungPhil, and New York rap crew Surf Gang have joined forces for a new single called “Halftones.” It’s produced by Harrison and Flea Diamonds. They’re also releasing the track’s video, in which Niontay and RealYungPhil take turns rapping around the streets of New York. Check it out below.
Posthumous Johnny Cash Album Songwriter Announced, New Song “Well Alright” Shared: Listen
A new posthumous album of previously unreleased material by Johnny Cash has been announced: Songwriter is due June 28 (via Mercury Nashville/UMe). Centered around original demos that Cash recorded in 1993 between contracts, the album strips down those recordings to just the country legend’s vocals and acoustic guitar, and then invites the musicians with whom he played—guitarist Marty Stuart, late bassist Dave Roe, and drummer Pete Abbott, among others—to flesh out the music. Listen to the lead single, “Well Alright,” below.
Kronos Quartet Enlist Laurie Anderson, Armand Hammer, Jlin, and More for New Sun Ra Tribute Album
AIDS-awareness nonprofit Red Hot has announced another new tribute album honoring Sun Ra. Outer Spaceways Incorporated - Kronos Quartet & Friends Meet Sun Ra, out June 21, is the fourth volume in the label’s Red Hot & Ra series. Listen to two songs from it, a reimagining of Sun Ra’s “Daddy’s Gonna Tell You No Lie,” featuring Laraaji, and “Outer Spaceways Incorporated,” with vocals by Georgia Anne Muldrow, below.
If I don’t make it, I love u
Whatever ineffable force makes music feel both contained and alive, Still House Plants have it. Their beautifully fractured sound seems made of nerve endings, like the band’s process is on view and we’re hearing the very moment of a Still House Plants song taking shape. The London trio of vocalist Jess Hickie-Kallenbach, guitarist Finlay Clark, and drummer David Kennedy, who met about a decade ago at the Glasgow School of Art, once said they practice only the starts and endings of their songs, which underscores how each one works: as a vessel for abandon.
Dark Matter
When a veteran artist turns to a young-gun producer for a shot of contemporary savvy, it usually signals a desire to revamp their sound or embrace a new era. Sometimes it works: Jack White brought some bluesy grit to Loretta Lynn’s Van Lear Rose; St. Vincent nudged Sleater-Kinney in a sleeker, icier direction. And sometimes it doesn’t; remember when Danger Mouse tried to steer RHCP into an album of lush space-funk? But generally, at least, a spirit of reinvention animates the proceedings.
Woledto
This past Valentine’s Day, Elyanna opened the Chicago date of her first North American tour by performing the title track of her debut album, Woledto. Lured onstage by the mallet drumming of a tabla baladi and the spellbinding melody of an electroacoustic oud, the Palestinian Chilean singer-songwriter took the mic draped in angelic white. “And I ask myself after my absence,” she trilled in Arabic. “Heartbrokenly: Why did I go away/When your love was above the stars?”
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