Toronto Music Community Mourns After Smoke Dawg Reportedly Shot and Killed
Two members of Toronto’s rap community were reportedly shot and killed on Saturday night in a downtown incident involving multiple victims. A CP24 report says the shooting happened outside Cube...
View ArticleWeezer Are Putting Their “Africa” Cover on Vinyl! But It’s Already Sold Out
Weezer’s cover of Toto’s iconic soft-rock track “Africa” just keeps… existing! Since its birth as an online campaign by a 14-year-old, Weezer have hit the Billboard Hot 100 for the first time in...
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Karnage Kills Is an Unstoppable Grime Talent
It’s 2AM on a Friday, and I’m about to experience Karnage live for the first time. No, not the terrible Freshers’ Week pub crawl – one of grime’s rising new talents. The lights dim in this sweaty, east...
View ArticleJ Hus, Knife Crime and the Way the UK Mainstream Consumes Music
I remember being at a house party in 2007, where I plugged the speakers into my iPod and played Skepta and Plastician’s classic grime collab “Intensive Snare.” It received roars of approval from my...
View ArticleSmashing Pumpkins Played a House Show and Got Shut Down by the Cops
Billy Corgan, a once-masterful songwriter who now peddles bizarre conspiracy theories and deliberately makes people think he's a dumbass, has a Smashing Pumpkins reunion on the go right now. Former...
View ArticleNile Rodgers Is Now the Chairman of the Songwriters Hall of Fame
Nile Rodgers is bringing disco back. Again. It's About Time, his first new album with Chic in 26 years, is out on September 14, and he's got an unlikely group of young musicians—everyone from Vic Mensa...
View ArticleMadame Gandhi's "Top Knot Turn Up" Is a Feminist Trap Banger
Sun’s out, buns out, y’all. Ahead of Independence Day, musician-activist Madame Gandhi is here with a new banger to remind you that amidst all the dark chaos, the future is still sure as heck female....
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Rainbow Chan's Perfect Pop Speaks Beyond the Australian Experience
There is no definitive version of Rainbow Chan. The Sydney-based singer and producer creates music across multiple identities and streams as a way of keeping sane. Rainbow Chan, her main project, finds...
View ArticleAlice Skye and Emily Wurramara Shift the Paradigm for Black Woman Musicians
Alice Skye and Emily Wurramara are in soft contrast to each other, and this soft contrast makes for the perfect joint tour. Emily is an island woman, hailing from Groote Eylandt, Alice a landlocked...
View ArticleMeet the Teen Metalheads Saving the Maori Language Through Thrash
Less than 4% of New Zealanders can speak Maori, the indigenous language of the country. There are heaps of places trying to preserve and revive the language, but one source sticks out like a sore...
View ArticleRichard Swift, Indie Polymath, Dead at 41
Richard Swift, the singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer known for his work with The Shins and The Black Keys as well as for his meticulously crafted solo albums, died this morning in...
View ArticleMuncie Girls Reckon with Personal Woes on the Brash Indie of "Falling Down"
Ted Hughes was a bit of a bastard. This is the proclamation Muncie Girls vocalist and bass player Lande Hekt and I make when we begin our interview. I’m telling her about how my high school writing...
View ArticleNailah Blackman Carries the Legacy of Original Sokah Music in Her Blood
For a few weeks of the year, you can get a slice of Trinidad in Jamaica. Through the annual Jamaica Carnival, an event that replicates Carnival in Trinidad while still integrating aspects of Jamaican...
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Inside ‘Hungama’, an LGBTQ+ Bollywood Night in an East London Strip Club
It’s 11:30PM on a Thursday night at legendary east London club Metropolis, and Beyonce and Bollywood music are blaring out the speakers at exactly the same time. Around 200 people – mostly 20-something...
View ArticleStream Grinding Sludge Fiends Secret Cutter's Ferocious New Album
I'd half-planned to post this on July 4 alongside a screed on America's colonial, imperialist, genocidal shames—but I'm on fucking vacation until the 10th, so decided to just share it with you as-is,...
View ArticleLil Uzi Vert Is Stoked About Young Thug and Darkness in the New "Up" Video
Lil Uzi Vert may have driven mainstream emo-rap into its darkest aesthetic recesses, but that doesn't mean he can stop grinning. Even in the video for "XO Tour Llif3," a clip that's set somewhere...
View ArticleNicki Minaj and Quavo Jump on Ella Mai's New "Boo'd Up" Remix
Twenty-three-year-old London-born R&B singer Ella Mai is slowly turning into a star in the US. She's signed to DJ Mustard's 10 Summers label, she's got an slinky and effervescent throwback pop...
View ArticleJustin Timberlake's "SoulMate" Is Your Normcore Song of the Summer
At the top of the year, Justin Timberlake drew from rural American imagery for his album Man of the Woods, resulting in lackluster sales by his lofty standards and an online discourse on white...
View ArticleListen to Jimmy Wopo's First Posthumous Single, "Lane Life"
Jimmy Wopo's team have released a new single from the late Pittsburgh rapper, who was shot and killed last month. "Lane Life," which you can listen to above, is the first song from a full posthumous...
View ArticleMojo Juju Grapples With Past and Present On Her Soulful New Single
Colonialism makes a good effort to stamp out any traces of First Nations people. The ongoing colonial project sees Indigenous people as a threat to its success, and for a queer black woman like Mojo...
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