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Jake Daniels Drops Angsty Alt-Rock Crossover Jam “Liar”
New York-based artist Jake Daniels has returned with his fourth track of the year, the gritty “Liar,” via CloudKid. “Liar” is a searing single that tells the familiar tale of a toxic and obsessive relationship, which of course never ends well. As per the anthemic track’s title, “Liar” follows a main character who is in love with someone who continues to lie to him—but like the throes of any addiction, he can’t help but re-enter the tantalizingly dangerous waters. “He struggles letting go of his infatuation and attraction towards her as she is obsessive over him, even though she is a liar of the worst kind,” Daniels explained. “You could even say that she’s downright ‘evil,’ using her looks to entra...
Imagine Music Festival Cancelled Due to Severe Weather Caused by Hurricane Nicholas
Just two days before its gates were to open, Imagine Music Festival has been cancelled due to severe weather conditions in Atlanta. Hurricane Nicholas made landfall this week, slamming Gulf Coast communities and bringing heavy rains to the Atlanta metropolitan area. According to Imagine organizers, who reportedly worked with meteorologists and local authorities, the remnants of the hurricane posed “an unacceptable risk of unsafe conditions” for ticket-holders and staff in Chattahoochee Hills. “We can’t even begin to describe how heartbroken we are and how much effort and dedication from our team has gone into this show,” reads a statement shared by organizers via the festival’s social media. “We are an independent organization and th...
ADE Festival 2021 Moving Forward Despite New COVID-19 Regulations
Prospective attendees of the 2021 ADE Festival can safely plan accordingly after organizers announced they’re moving forward with the event in light of new regulations by the Dutch government. The news arrives on the heels of an announcement by Prime Minister Mark Rutte, who said in a press conference yesterday that social distancing will end in the Netherlands on September 25th. Despite new COVID-19 regulations forcing clubs, bars, restaurants, and other nightlife businesses to shut down by midnight, ADE Festival will forge on as planned from October 13th to 17th. Rutte also noted that the country will begin mandating coronavirus access passes on the 25th, when patrons must provide proof of vaccination or a negative test within 24 hours. “The risk still is not gone,&...
Mac Miller’s ‘Faces’ Will Hit Streaming Services for the First Time Next Month
Mac Miller‘s 2014 mixtape Faces will be available on all streaming services for the first time since its release on October 15. Faces first arrived as a free download on Mother’s Day following Miller’s sophomore album Watching Movies With The Sound Off and prior to his 2015 album GO:OD AM. The tape enlisted contributions from Earl Sweatshirt, Sir Michael Rocks of the Cool Kids, Vince Staples and several others. One of the tracks off the project, “Colors and Shapes,” arrived today, along with an accompanying music video directed by Sam Mason. The visual follows a dog traversing imaginative dimensions in a storybook-like fashion. “The track felt very visual to me—like it had its own world,” Mason said in a statement via Pitchfork. “This atmospheric nighttime place th...
Playboi Carti Blames Hackers for Alleged NARCISSIST Merch Collection
After teasing NARCISSIST over the past few weeks, Playboi Carti appears to have finally dropped the mysterious project, albeit a day later than scheduled. While many fans had been hoping that NARCISSIST would be a new album since it shares the name of the rapper’s upcoming tour, it appears that the moniker refers to a new merch collection. Carti’s official online store was updated with a collection that includes a hoodie, ski mask, long sleeve tee, bomber jacket and motorcycle helmet. As fans balked at the aforementioned helmet, which boasted a $5,000 USD price tag, one fan decided to investigate further and unearthed an identical helmet that was already being sold on the Chinese retailer Alibaba for $29 USD, sharing their findings to Twitter. The user then discovered that the same $40 USD...
25 Years Into Their Career, Big D and the Kids Table Just Want You to Do Your Art
David McWane has been in Big D and the Kids Table for a real long time. For that matter, he’s been the Boston-based ska punk band’s vocalist and stabilizing force for longer than he hasn’t. The past 26 years of the 44 year old’s life have been dedicated to singing, shouting, and songwriting, and a month before the band’s latest album, Do Your Art (October 22 via SideOneDummy Records), he’s ready to recommit to it all over again. While they’ve never been the biggest band in the world — nor are they trying to be — Big D’s decades of existence are a testament to the enduring connection that McWane has built both with fans and musicians around him. Nine Big D albums into his career, the frontman, author and Northeastern University professor has pretty much seen every wrinkle the music industry...
The War on Drugs Perform on a Rooftop in ‘I Don’t Live Here Anymore’ Video
The War on Drugs released a video for the title track off their first record in four years I Don’t Live Here Anymore. In great dad-rock fashion, the band kicks it back on a tour bus traveling through a desert. The War on Drugs pays homage to the rock ‘n’ roll era, feeding llamas like the Pet Sounds cover and performing on a rooftop like the Beatles. Especially in these trying times, the group reminiscences on the good old days and the good old music that came with it. [embedded content] In it, Adam Granduciel sings “I was lying in my bed, a creature void of form / Been so afraid of everything, I need a chance to be reborn.” The video was directed by Emmett Malloy and filmed throughout Los Angeles. This is the first studio album from the band since winning 2018’s Best Rock Album Grammys wit...
Pool Hopping Through It All With Illuminati Hotties
It’s a perfect day for a swim in Los Angeles, but Sarah Tudzin is struggling to relax. The Illuminati Hotties frontwoman is trying and failing to find her balance on an inflatable tube in the deep end of my pool, clutching her sunglasses with one hand and a Tecate can with the other. “Wait, hang on, I got this,” she says as she splashes around on a 91-degree afternoon in June. The more she thrashes, though, the less the float wants to cooperate, like an aquatic, bucking rodeo bull. She’s tilted so far back that she’s almost upside-down, with the ends of her thick black hair starting to get wet. “Don’t put it in your article that I couldn’t do this. This is off the record!” Balance is something the 29-year-old has never quite been able to master, in the water or in life. She’s a textbook wo...
Composer Tom Salta Adds His Score to Deathloop’s Stylish 1960s Setting
If you’ve watched anything even remotely related to video games this year, you’ve probably seen a trailer for Deathloop. The latest game created by Arkane Studios (Dishonored, Prey) is undoubtedly one of the biggest titles to release this year, both as far as popularity and critical acclaim go. The colorful new title sees players stuck in a 1960s time loop on an island/former military base called Blackreef, where its eight inhabitants are looking to kill the protagonist before he can kill them. If the time loop mechanic of Outer Wilds and the modern Hitman trilogy had a stylish baby raised by the people who did one of the best first-person narratives of the 2010s with Prey, the result would be something like Deathloop — but not exactly. Along with the intricat...
CHVRCHES Cover Gerard McMahon’s “Cry Little Sister” for Netflix’s Nightbooks: Stream
CHVRCHES have shared their cover of Gerard McMahon’s “Cry Little Sister” for the soundtrack to the Netflix movie Nightbooks. Stream it below. “Cry, little sister/ Thou shalt not fall/ Come, come to your brother/ Thou shalt not die/ Unchain me, sister/ Thou shalt not fear/ Love is with your brother/ Thou shalt not kill,” Lauren Mayberry intones in a call-and-answer with herself on the track’s foreboding, atmospheric chorus. The band opened up about their love of the 1987 gothic rock classic originally featured in Joel Schumacher’s The Lost Boys, saying in a statement, “We were so excited to work on this project as we are big fans of everyone involved. Cinema — horror in particular — has always been a big part of CHVRCHES behind the scenes. We have talked about covering “Cry Little Sister” f...
Kehlani Announces New Album Blue Water Road, Shares “Altar”: Stream
Kehlani has announced her third album Blue Water Road, which will be released this winter. To preview the record, she unveiled the lead single “Altar” today. The Bay Area singer revealed Blue Water Road on Tuesday via Twitter and shared a dramatic, minute-long album trailer which she described as “coming out of the rubble of It Was Good Until It Wasnt and into the light, on to the road.” Blue Water Road marks the follow-up to Kehlani’s aforementioned 2020 album, It Was Good Until It Wasn’t. “i only want to make things that mean something to me completely void of algorithms or strategy,” she wrote about the project on social media. “approaching my 6th project, i’m not chasing anything but joy with this shit. fuck a box. i love y’all for the way you love me!!!!!” Advertisement Related V...
Adia Victoria Shares “You Was Born to Die” Featuring Margo Price and Jason Isbell: Stream
This Friday, September 17th, Adia Victoria returns with her third studio album, A Southern Gothic. Just ahead of its release, the singer-songwriter has shared another snippet of the album with the single “You Was Born to Die.” It’s her take on the Ernest B. McTell classic, and it features guests Margo Price, Jason Isbell, and Kyshona. “You Was Born to Die” is a dark, rootsy slow-burner that erupts into a ferocious cacophony of screeching guitars and searing vocals. “Last year the lessons I have learned on my walk in the blues — the business of love, lies, loss and spectacular death — surrounded my every waking thought like armor,” Victoria wrote in a statement. “In a society that attempts so suppress death into the unspoken, the blues has allowed me to death in dance’s face ...
