New Music Releases
Kacey Musgraves Releases New Album star-crossed: Stream
Get ready to fall apart: Kacey Musgraves has unveiled her new album star-crossed via MCA Nashville/Interscope Records. Stream it below. In a sit-down with Rolling Stone, the superstar singer revealed that she was inspired by Greek tragedies and her divorce from ex-husband Ruston Kelly when conceiving the album. “This last chapter of my life and this whole last year and chapter for our country — at its most simple form, it’s a tragedy,” she explained. “And then I started looking into why portraying a tragedy is actually therapeutic and why it is a form of art that has lasted for centuries. It’s because you set the scene, the audience rises to the climax of the problem with you, and then there’s resolve. There’s a feeling of resolution at the end. I was inspired by that.” Advertisement Relat...
Glass Animals Share New Song “I Don’t Wanna Talk (I Just Wanna Dance)”: Stream
Glass Animals have been flirting with pure pop for a while now, and they achieved their first taste of mainstream success with the 2020 global hit “Heat Waves,” which surpassed a billion global streams. As the UK band’s follow-up, they have now shared a new blockbuster hopeful, “I Don’t Wanna Talk (I Just Wanna Dance).” Over a flirty bass line and upbeat synths, frontman Dave Bayley works through a bait shop’s worth of hooks, including a chorus, a couple of pre-choruses, a verse or two, and a bridge. “Don’t wanna talk, baby, I just wanna dance,” he sings with the help of a robotic distortion. “I don’t wanna talk, no more living in the past/ Baby, don’t wanna talk, baby, I just wanna dance/ And I’m not gonna stop ’til I forget what we had.” In a statement, Bayley attempted to sell the...
J Balvin Drops New Album Jose: Stream
J Balvin has released his latest full-length album, Jose. Stream the new effort below via Apple Music and Spotify. Jose comes just a year and a half after Balvin’s last LP, 2020’s Latin Grammy Award-winning Colores. Over the intervening months, the reggaeton artist has dropped a number of singles, “7 De Mayo,” “Otra Noche Sin Ti” featuring Khalid, “Qué Más Pues” with YouTube star María Becerra, and “Que Locura”. The collaborative cut “Una Dia (One Day)” with Dua Lipa, Bad Bunny, and Tainy, which originally appeared on Lipa’s Future Nostalgia: The Moonlight Edition, also has a place on Jose. Other guests on Jose include Skrillex (“In da Getto”), Tokischa (“Perra”), Jhay Cortez (“La Venganza”), Yandel (“Te Acuerdas de Mi”), and Myke Towers (“Billetes de 100”). A remi...
Baby Keem Drops Debut Album The Melodic Blue: Stream
Baby Keem has finally released his debut studio album. The California rapper’s long-awaited project The Melodic Blue dropped today through his cousin Kendrick Lamar’s pgLang production company via Columbia. The Melodic Blue follows Baby Keem’s 2019 mixtape, Die for My Bitch. It includes the previously-released “Durag Activity” featuring Travis Scott, the aptly-titled Kendrick collaboration “Family Ties,” and “Issues,” which Keem debuted on The Tonight Show Starring Fallon earlier this week. The Melodic Blue clocks in at 16 tracks total, including two more collaborations with Kendrick on “Range Brothers” and “Vent.” Rosalía, James Blake, and Don Toliver are among the album’s other contributors. Advertisement Related Video Listen to The Melodic Blue and watch the new video for “Issues” below...
BLACKPINK’s Lisa Unveils Debut Solo Singles “LALISA” and “MONEY”: Stream
What’s her name? BLACKPINK’s Lisa has finally dropped her debut solo release LALISA via YG Entertainment/Interscope Records. The two-track single album contains two songs: “LALISA” and “MONEY.” Take a listen below. Rumblings of the Thai rapper’s impending solo single began back in April when YG Entertainment confirmed to The Korean Herald that she was cooking up music sans her bandmates. Then, at the end of last month, YG teased the single with a short clip from the music video. With the release, Lisa has officially become the third member of the K-pop girl group to unveil solo tracks, following Jennie’s “Solo” back in 2018 and Rosé’s “On the Ground” and “Gone” earlier this year. Only fourth member Jisoo has yet to get her own solo moment outside of the group. Advertisement Related Vi...
Metallica Release 53-Song Blacklist Covers Album: Stream
Metallica have released The Metallica Blacklist charity covers compilation. The album features 53 artists covering the 12 songs from “The Black Album.” All proceeds from the release benefit a charity of each artist’s choice and Metallica’s All Within My Hands Foundation. The band announced the compilation at the same time as the “Black Album” Super Deluxe Edition box set. Both celebrate the 30th anniversary of the seminal heavy metal album that launched Metallica to superstardom. Each week leading up to the September 10th digital release, the band shared new covers from the Blacklist. From Miley Cyrus’ rendition of “Nothing Else Matters” to Weezer taking on “Enter Sandman” to St. Vincent shredding through “Sad But True,” the covers have been a highly entertaining pastime for Metallica fans...
Troye Sivan Drops Angelic New Single “Angel Baby”: Stream
Today, Troye Sivan released his new comeback single “Angel Baby” via Universal Music Australia. Stream it below. On the track, the pop star gushes over a newfound love that’s positively brought him back to life. “I just wanna live in this moment forever/ ‘Cause I’m afraid that livin’ couldn’t get any better/ Started givin’ up on the world forever/ Till you gave up heaven so we could be together/ You’re my angel/ Angel baby, angel,” he pronounces over bombastic, prom-ready production on the lovestruck chorus. Sivan described the single, which serves as the first taste of a follow-up to his 2020 EP In a Dream, as a “surprise gushy juicy doting adoring power b^tt^m gay ballad” when he announced its pending arrival at the end of August. At the time, he also shared the single’s sweetly provocat...
Lana Del Rey Details New Album Blue Banisters, Shares “Arcadia”: Stream
Two months after missing her planned release date for Blue Banisters, Lana Del Rey has revealed the album is finally dropping on October 22nd. As the latest preview, she shared a new single titled “Arcadia.” Watch the self-directed music video below. Del Rey also revealed the tracklist, which includes the previously released singles “Blue Banisters,” “Text Book,” and “Wildflower Wildfire.” Check it out, along with the album art, following the jump. According to Del Rey herself, “Arcadia” should appeal to fans of her viral 2011 debut single “Video Games.” Featuring piano-driven production, the seductive track includes lyrics like “My body is a map of LA/ I stand straight like an angel, with a halo/ Hangin’ out the Hilton Hotel windows/ Screamin’, ‘Hey, baby, let’s go.’” Advertisement ...
Thoughtcrimes (Ex-Dillinger Escape Plan) Unleash New Song “Misery’s a Muse”: Stream
Thoughtcrimes have unveiled the new song “Misery’s a Muse” via an animated music video. The band has also announced a reissue of 2019’s Tap Night EP, due out October 8th. The group features former Dillinger Escape Plan drummer Billy Rymer alongside singer Rick Pepa, guitarists Russ Savarese and Brian Sullivan, and bassist Cody Hosz. So far, the band only has the Tap Night EP to its name, but the upcoming reissue expands the tracklist with the addition of two previously unreleased songs — “Misery’s a Muse” being one of them. Advertisement Related Video It is hard to fathom how the song didn’t make the cut the first time around. It’s an unrelenting ripper with passionate screamed vocals from Pepa and a rapid pace from Rymer. Perhaps the song was unfinished at one time or shelved in post...
John Carpenter Goes on a “Rampage” in New Song from Halloween Kills: Stream
John Carpenter and his musical collaborators, son Cody Carpenter and godson Daniel Davies, have unleashed the new song “Rampage.” It’s the latest preview of the Halloween Kills soundtrack, which arrives October 15th alongside the film. “Rampage” is a sinister slow burn, using skittering synth loops and anxious drums to build tension. If the title is accurate, the actual killing may start around the 1:10 mark, when a very loud and heavy chord falls on the track like an axe blow. The menace intensifies around 2:30, and one can imagine the bodies piling up. But the denouement is a relatively calm affair, perhaps suggesting that someone — good or bad — got away. Check out “Rampage” below. Pre-orders for the Halloween Kills soundtrack are ongoing. Last month, Carpe...
illuminati hotties Drops “Threatening Each Other re: Capitalism”: Stream
illuminati hotties has shared the latest single from her upcoming album, Let Me Do One More. It’s cleverly titled “Threatening Each Other re: Capitalism,” and you can hear it below. On the new track, the indie rock project from the mind of Sarah Tudzin shines a magnifying glass on modern consumerism over the slow roil of reverberating guitars and drums. “But if you’re not too embarrassed/ Of how I go out in public/ Do you think that we could make a deli run?” she asks before launching into the song’s philosophically-minded chorus. “The corner store is selling spit/ Bottled up for profit/ I can’t believe I’m buying in/ Isn’t that genius?” “‘Threatening Each Other re: Capitalism’ makes haste of a machine by which we’ve all been fooled as well as the people who have fooled themselves into thi...
Angels & Airwaves Share New Song “Spellbound”: Stream
Adding to the recent swarm of Blink-182–adjacent news, Angels & Airwaves are gearing up to release their first album in seven years. Lifeforms is out on September 24th, and the Tom DeLonge-led outfit unveiled another preview of it today with the single “Spellbound” and an accompanying music video. “Spellbound” sees Angels & Airwaves really lean into the spacey aesthetic they’ve been touting since their 2006 debut, backed by layered, arpeggiated synths, a house beat, and a tasteful dose of vocal distortion. The song’s lyrics appear to reference a romantic relationship that’s doomed to end in tragedy. “It’s not hard to die from love/ When your heart has been spellbound,” DeLonge sings. The former Blink singer also directed the music video for “Spellbound.” According to a press r...
