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IDLES Bang Their Way Through “Crawl!” on Colbert: Watch
IDLES stopped by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Thursday night to perform their pummeling 2021 banger “Crawl!” The British post-punks rocked through a storm of flickering lights. As frontman Joe Talbot howled, “And yeah, I’m on my knees for porcelain/ ‘Cause it felt like God to me/ And yeah, I’m a fucking crawler/ Crawling hurts, but it worked for me,” he stared at the ceiling with one hand raised, like a man facing God as he walks backwards into hell. Check out the performance below. The song is featured on the post-punk outfit’s latest album CRAWLER, which was released last November after being preceded by singles “The Beachland Ballroom” and “Car Crash.” The LP also contains highlights “When the Lights Come On,” “The New Sensation,” and “Stockholm Syndrome.” Advert...
Kirk Hammett Reveals Cinematic Single From Debut Solo EP
Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett has revealed the first taste of his debut solo EP, Portals, which arrives April 23 via Blackened Recordings. The instrumental “High Plains Drifter” was inspired by the music from the 1973 film of the same name and sports contributions from Queens Of The Stone Age’s Jon Theodore, longtime Metallica collaborator Edwin Outwater and members of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra. [embedded content][embedded content] “The music for ‘High Plains Drifter’ initially came from a flamenco piece I had written,” Hammett says. “It was a two-and-a-half-minute piece, and I really liked it, but it was one of those riffs that would be hard to integrate into Metallica. I knew I wanted to do something with it, even though it came out spontaneously. I had been sitting outsi...
Ricky Montgomery Shares Origins of It’s 2016 Somewhere EP: Exclusive
Our feature series Origins gives artists space to detail everything that went into their newest release. Today, Ricky Montgomery breaks down his new EP, It’s 2016 Somewhere. Ricky Montgomery has returned with a new EP, It’s 2016 Somewhere, which compiles new tracks, non-album singles, and two acoustic versions of fan favorites (“Mr. Loverman” and “I Don’t Love You Anymore”). The project is out today (April 15th), alongside a music video for new track “Settle Down.” It’s no secret that TikTok has the power to blow up an artist overnight. What’s particularly strange, however, is when the algorithm decides to promote a song that was released to little fan-fare years prior. From Life Without Buildings to The Walters, the next viral indie discovery can come from seemingly anywhere or anytime. A...
Taylor Hawkins Appears Posthumously On New Edgar Winter LP
Less than a month after his sudden death at age 50 in Bogota, Colombia, Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins appears posthumously on the new album from blues-rock veteran Edgar Winter, Brother Johnny, out today (April 15) on Quarto Valley Records. Hawkins handles vocals on “Guess I’ll Go Away,” which originally appeared as the opening song on the late Johnny Winter’s 1970 album, Johnny Winter And. “It stands out in my mind as the highest energy and hardest rocking song on the entire album,” Edgar wrote on his Web site the day after Hawkins died. “I have always considered it stylistically the most uncharacteristically advanced song Johnny ever wrote — almost a precursor of heavy metal.” For this reason, Brother Johnny producer Ross Hogarth suggested his longtime coll...
5 Albums I Can’t Live Without: Les Claypool of Primus
Name Les Claypool Best known for Well-known for the ability to mentally levitate midcentury furniture while doing one arm pushups in piles of packing foam. Current city Somewhere between Albuquerque and Tucumcari, New Mexico on Highway 40. I’m hearing tales of vintage motels and non-exotic American cuisine. Really want to be in I’d like to be in the Emerald City in the Wizard of Oz. Excited about Just ended up in Amarillo at Yellow City Street Food and ate some of the best tacos I’ve ever had in my life. I’ve escaped home to tour the U.S. and Canada in my shiny box for the next two months; playing old Rush tunes and inflicting some brand-spanking new Primus songs upon the masses. I have a three-song Primus EP coming out called Conspiranoid.Just finished a song ...
Tanerélle Wants Her Sensual Space Jams To Make You Feel ‘Yummy’
By Ural Garrett The Atlanta-born singer-songwriter Tanerélle’s creative output is so vast that it seems to stretch beyond the cosmos. She’s modeled her out-of-this-world Afrofuturist style in the likes of Playboy and lent her surreal sounds to co-score Nikyatu Jusu’s buzzy horror film Nanny, which received the coveted Grand Jury Prize at Sundance in January, about a child’s caretaker with a mysterious background. Between these projects, it’s almost easy to forget the huge strides she’s made as an R&B artist and instrumentalist. In the nearly seven years since she released her debut single “Siren,” the 28-year-old singer, born Tanerélle Stephens, has crafted a singular soundscape all on her own by blending soul with a light New Age bounce. She released the spaced-out deb...
Reminiscing About Real World: Why Danny Wishes Paul Wasn’t Filmed Back In 2000
Danny Roberts documented his relationship with Paul Dill during The Real World: New Orleans in 2000. But when Paul came to visit his then-boyfriend in NOLA, his face had to be blurred. The reason: Paul was serving in the military — when Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell was still in existence (Paul’s parents also didn’t know their son’s sexual orientation). But looking back 22 years later, Danny — who will reunite with his roomies on The Real World Homecoming beginning on April 20 on Paramount+ — wishes that he had not featured this very personal part of his life in front of the MTV production. “I think I would have gone back and encouraged Paul not to be on camera,” he admits in the video above when asked if there was anything he would have ...
Lizzo Announces New Album Special, Shares Video for New Song “About Damn Time”: Watch
Lizzo has released her new song “About Damn Time.” It’s her first single since sharing “Rumors” (featuring Cardi B) last year. She’s also announced that her new album Special is out July 15 (via Nice Life/Atlantic). In the Christian Breslauer–directed video, Lizzo flees a “Stressed & Sexy” support group in a video that features an office building with light-up disco flooring and a scene where she plays flute while standing atop the water in a swimming pool. Watch it all happen, and find the album artwork for Special, below. In a new interview with Zane Lowe, Lizzo chatted about the inspiration behind “About Damn Time.” “‘About Damn Time’ can lead into so many conversations,” she said. “It’s about damn time I feel better, it’s about damn time we get out this pandemic. It’s about damn ti...
Sault Release New Album Air: Listen
Mysterious UK group Sault have released a new album. It’s called Air, and you can check it out on Bandcamp. The album can be purchased on vinyl, CD, and digital formats (the digital version is available as a name-your-price download). Give it a listen below. In 2021, Sault released their third album Nine, which followed 2020’s pair of LPs Untitled (Black Is) and Untitled (Rise). Nine was only available to stream, download, and purchase for 99 days following its release. Last year, Sault were shortlisted as nominees for the prestigious Hyundai Mercury Prize. Read more about Untitled (Black Is) in “Great Records You May Have Missed: Summer 2020.” Content This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from.
Sonic Youth Share 1989 Kyiv Live Recording to Benefit Ukrainian Relief: Listen
Sonic Youth have shared a new live album, a set recorded in Kyiv, Ukraine on April 14, 1989. Proceeds from the set benefit World Central Kitchen and Ukrainian relief efforts. Check it out below. Despite their official breakup in 2011, Sonic Youth have maintained a regular archival release schedule. Last year, they issued a pair of live recordings from Texas to benefit abortion rights: one set from Austin in 1995 and the other from Dallas in 2006. The band most recently released In/Out/In, a collection of mostly instrumental recordings completed between 2000 and 2010. Read Pitchfork’s feature “Sonic Youth and the Business of Keeping a Dead Band Alive.” Content This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from.
Watch the Coachella 2022 Live Stream: Billie Eilish, the Weeknd, Arcade Fire, and More
Content This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from. After two COVID-19 cancelations, the festival announced its return last June, revealing the full lineup in January. A few weeks later, Coachella added that it was walking back its vaccination requirements for attendees, and that masks were not required at the festival. Though Travis Scott had been booked for the 2020 edition of Coachella and had been slated to return with it this year, he dropped from the lineup following the fatal crowd-crush incident at his Astroworld festival last fall. Kanye West was part of the first wave of headliners, but he, too, dropped off the bill for reasons he did not specify. The Weeknd and Swedish House Mafia will perform on April 17 and 24 instead. Follow along with Pitchfork’s full cov...
Judge Greg Mathis Trending After “Crackhead” Clip Goes Wide
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Aaron J. Thornton / Getty Judge Greg Mathis, and his popular syndicated reality series Judge Mathis, began its 23rd season in September 2021 and isn’t showing any signs of slowing down. On Wednesday, a clip featuring the Detroit native went wide after he claimed to be able to detect of a participant on the show was a former “crackhead.” Twitter user @Jo_Pa_Po shared the clip Wednesday (April 13) of Judge Mathis with Mathis speaking to a woman during a hearing. When Mathis asks if she objects, the woman inquires as to what, with Mathis following up with, “You object to the rumor or do you object to being a crackhead” without skipping a beat. The woman says she objects, which causes Mathis to press further. Mathis then says, “I don’t think you are now...
