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Justin Vernon and Aaron Dessner’s Big Red Machine Announce New Album Featuring Taylor Swift, Fleet Foxes, Sharon Van Etten
On first glance, How Long Do You Think It’s Gonna Last? may look like the hottest indie rock festival of 2010, but it’s actually the stacked new album from Big Red Machine. The supergroup from Justin Vernon (Bon Iver) and Aaron Dessner (The National) will drop their newest studio set on August 27th. It features Taylor Swift, Fleet Foxes, Sharon Van Etten, and more, and as a preview the band is offering the new song “Latter Days” with Anaïs Mitchell. This will be Big Red Machine’s second album following their eponymous debut in 2018. That project leaned heavily on the voice of Vernon, but this time around they’re mixing things up. Dessner handles lead vocals on three tracks, and as new single “Latter Days” demonstrates, they’re also making space for guest vocalists. Mitchell is th...
Beyond the Boys’ Club: Kris Esfandiari of King Woman
Beyond the Boys’ Club is a monthly column from journalist and radio host Anne Erickson, focusing on women in the heavy music genres, as they offer their perspectives on the music industry and discuss their personal experiences. Erickson is also a music artist herself, recently releasing the song “Eternal Way” under the moniker Upon Wings. This month’s piece features an interview with Kris Esfandiari of King Woman. King Woman’s new album, Celestial Blues, delves into heavy themes of suffering, spirituality and, ultimately, triumph. The ethereal doom band, led by Kris Esfandiari, releases its sophomore set July 30th via Relapse Records, following up the 2017 debut, Created in the Image of Suffering. Esfandiari grew up in a cult-like religious environment filled with stories of demons and exo...
VIDEO: Blessing Osaghae – In The Name
Check out this brand-new music and video from Blessing Osaghae – In The Name. UK-based Nigerian gospel singer and Pastor, Blessing Osaghae returns with another inspirational tune titled “In The Name”. This song was birthed right in her kitchen while she and her mum were just discussing about the power and potency available in the name of Jesus. As they naturally took the dialogue deeper into the powerful nature of the name, the words began to transform into lyrics and this tune was produced. She wraps the dialogue into a sound and finalized it with a video. Blessing is passionate about sharing with anyone who cares to listen that God is the ultimate and his name ever so powerful. This tune is coming off her new music project which is an album dubbed “Ignite” Watch and enjoy Blessing Osagha...
11-Year-Old Nandi Bushell Rocks Arctic Monkeys Cover with Matt Helders: Watch
Nandi Bushell is 11 now, and like any self-respecting wunderkind with a massive online following, she’s hosting jam sessions with some of the brightest stars of today. Bushell has shared a new instrumental cover of “I Bet You Look Good on the Dance Floor” by Arctic Monkeys, and her performance is accompanied by actual Arctic Monkeys drummer Matt Helders. “Matt Helders came to my house for a cup of Tea and a Jam with me,” Bushell wrote on Instagram. “We had the best time! We jammed loads of songs together and had a lot of fun improvising drum beats.” They also played Arctic Monkeys songs, which begs a question: if you play a band’s songs with members of the band, is it still a cover, or is it more of an audition? Asking for Alex Turner. The new performance of “I Bet You Look Good on the Dan...
The Recording Academy Attempts to Boost Diversity With 2021 Class Invitees
In response to accusations of corruption and a lack of diversity among its Grammy Awards voting body, the Recording Academy announced today that they’ve extended invitations to over 2,700 musicians and industry professionals to join the 2021 class of new members, with 55 percent of those coming from “traditionally underrepresented groups.” Via Pitchfork, the Academy’s membership is currently “26 percent female and 27 percent from traditionally underrepresented groups.” In recent years, artists like The Weeknd, Fiona Apple, and Frank Ocean have chastised the Grammys over a lack of diversity in their awards process. Though the Academy has attempted to reform their nomination process multiple times over, they’ve long been plagued by problems, culminating in a lengthy public complain...
Jamie Lynn Spears Voices Support for Britney Spears in Conservatorship Battle
Jamie Lynn Spears is speaking out in support of her sister Britney Spears days after the pop star went public with her desire to end the restrictive conservatorship that has controlled her life for the last 13 years. In a video uploaded to Instagram on Monday, the 30-year-old Jamie Lynn Spears explained that she did not want to publicly comment on her sister’s ordeal “until my sister could speak for herself and say what she felt she needed to say publicly.” “Now that she’s very clearly spoken and said what she needed to say, I feel like I can follow her lead and say what I feel I need to say,” Jamie Lynn continued. Related Video “I don’t care if she wants to run away to the rainforest and have a zillion babies in the middle of nowhere, or if she wants to come back and dominate the wor...
Shatta Wale – Convos
Check out this brand new song from Shatta Wale – “Convos” out now. Shatta Wale the self-styled King of Africa Dancehall returns shortly with a new track titled “Convos”. It is barely two days since he dropped “Nyame God” for his fans, yet again he keeps giving new jams. Members of the Shatta Movement are in high spirits for this new joint. The singer remains cocky and energetic as usual. Listen, enjoy and share Shatta Wale – “Convos” below. [embedded content] You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating should be. It begins with giving you back power. Get to meet Beautiful people, chat and make money in the process. Earn rewards by chatting, sharing photos, blogging and help give users back their fair share of In...
British Influencer Gets Surgery to Look Like BTS’ Jimin
A British influencer has allegedly undergone surgery numerous times in an attempt to look like BTS singer Jimin. “I’m finally Korean!” they said in a video shared with TMZ. “I’ve transitioned. I’m so, so happy I’ve completed my look. I’m finally Korean, guys: I have the eyes, I’ve just had the brow lift as well.” The influencer previously went by Oli London but recently changed their name to Jimin to closer align themselves with BTS. In a series of posts, the non-binary social media star revealed that they’ve felt “trapped” in the wrong body for eight years and now feel like they can finally “be myself” because they’re “Korean.” The process allegedly involved 18 surgeries, took several years to complete, and cost over $150,000 to pull off. In other parts of the video, Jimin the influencer ...
Christina Aguilera Calls Britney Spears’ Conservatorship “Unacceptable”
Christina Aguilera has voiced her support for Britney Spears in light of the pop star’s latest conservatorship hearing. In a lengthy statement posted to social media, Aguilera said she has been thinking about Spears nonstop, writing, “It is unacceptable that any woman, or human, wanting to be in control of their own destiny might not be allowed to live life as they wish.” Last week, Britney appeared virtually in a California court and asked that her father, Jamie Spears, be removed as her conservator. Britney spoke about being barred from marriage, put on Lithium against her will, and forced to continue using an IUD despite her desire to have more children. “I truly believe this conservatorship is abusive,” said Spears, who has been trying to end the conservatorship for ever since 2014. Si...
Halsey’s Going Into The Void With Trent Reznor And Atticus Ross
Today (June 28), Halsey announced that she is working on her fourth studio album titled If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power with industrial rock band Nine Inch Nails’s Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. A 10-second preview video of a new, untitled track with heavily atmospheric and textured musical elements came with the announcement. The video also depicts a billboard advertisement promoting the album zooming outwards. Fans are going wild and expecting that this will be a new punk-rock era for the New Jersey pop singer, who has previously delved into pop-punk and nu-metal elements. Halsey seems to have already dropped hints that she’s been leaning towards a new rock direction. Last year, she and Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker were featured on Machine Gun Kelly’s “Forget Me Too”. A...
Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” Surpasses 1 Billion Spotify Streams
NIrvana’s game-changing single “Smells Like Teen Spirit” has surpassed one billion streams on Spotify, a rare feat for a heavy rock song. The achievement comes just a few months before the band’s landmark 1991 album Nevermind celebrates its 30th anniversary. “Smells Like Teen Spirit” changed the face of rock music as the first single released from Nevermind. The song and its iconic music video helped open the floodgates for grunge and alternative rock at a time when hair metal and pop ruled the MTV and radio airwaves. The song joins Linkin Park’s “In the End” among the more than 150 tracks that make up Spotify’s “Billions Club”, most of which are of the modern pop and hip-hop variety. A few songs from Queen (“Bohemian Rhapsody”, “Another One Bites the Dust” and “Don’t Stop Me Now”) are als...
Pinegrove Announce 2021 US Tour Dates
Pinegrove’s last album, Marigold, arrived in January 2020, and now they can properly take their new music on the road. The indie rock band has announced a handful of shows for 2021. The 15-date run will take them primarily along the East Coast, with an appearance at Bonnaroo in September. It marks their first live shows since the original Marigold tour was cut short due to the pandemic. The tour kicks off in Accord, NY this August, ending with a hometown show in Montclair, NJ in October. Joining Pinegrove are supporting acts Samia, Mikaela Davis Band, Miloe, Grumpy, Indigo DeSouza, Skullcrusher, and Blue Ranger. Tickets go on sale this Wednesday, June 30th, at 10:00 a.m. EST, and you can grab yours via Ticketmaster or on the secondary market here. See the dates below. In April 2020, Pinegr...
