Nostalgia
De La Soul’s Catalog Coming to Streaming Services For the First Time
De La Soul’s entire catalog will be available on all streaming platforms and digital retailers for the first time beginning March 3rd, 2023. Due to sample clearance issues and label disputes with Warner Bros. Records and Tommy Boy Records, none of De La Soul’s music before 2004 had ever made it to streaming services. In February 2019, Tommy Boy acquired the group’s master recordings from Warner, but plans to bring their first six albums to streaming services were scrapped when De La Soul pushed back on the move and revealed they would only be receiving 10% of the profits. Subsequent negotiations with Tommy Boy broke down, and no further progress was made until music rights company Reservoir acquired the label for $100 million in June 2021. Advertisement Related Video At the time, a re...
The Strokes Collect Early Singles in New Vinyl Box Set
The Strokes will compile some of their earliest singles in a new vinyl box set. Due out on February 24th, The Singles – Volume 01 boasts ten singles from the band’s first three albums, as well as their companion B-sides. All ten singles come pressed on black 7-inch vinyl, with the artwork from each original release replicated in the package. Pre-orders are now available via the band’s website and Amazon. Additionally, videos for all ten singles have been re-released in high definition on the band’s YouTube channel. Related Video Producer Rick Rubin recently revealed that The Strokes worked on a new album on the top of a mountain in Costa Rica. Frontman Julian Casablancas later clarified that, “we’re still so extremely v far off from from being even close to any kinda remotely-near-doneness...
alt-J Announce An Awesome Wave Anniversary Concerts
alt-J will mark the 10th anniversary of An Awesome Wave with a special run of US concerts featuring a full performance of the album. In March 2023, the band will stage shows in Brooklyn, Los Angeles, and Oakland, during with they’ll play the album from front to back for the first time in the US. A ticket pre-sale begins Wednesday, December 7th, with a general on-sale following on Friday, December 9th via Ticketmaster. Advertisement Check out alt-J’s complete tour schedule below. The band also has upcoming dates in the Dominican Republic, Mexico, New Zealand, and Australia. alt-J 2023 Tour Dates:03/11 – Santo Domingo, DR @ Isle of Light Music Festival03/13 – Brooklyn, NY @ Kings Theatre *03/18 – Mexico City, MX @ Vive Latino03/20 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Wiltern *03/21 – Los Angeles, CA @ Th...
What Ever Happened to the Kids from A Christmas Story?
Each month, Clint Worthington’s What Ever Happened To… catches us up with some of our favorite faces from our pop-culture past. It was updated in November 2022. We’ve all seen 1983’s A Christmas Story. The Bob Clark-directed holiday tale of little Ralphie and the many misadventures surrounding his ninth Christmas started out as darkly comic counterprogramming to the sunniness of traditional Christmas movies, only to become an annual tradition for most yuletide households. No one born after 1997 has ever had to seek out A Christmas Story; just walk past any random TV playing TNT on the day itself, and you’ll catch a glimpse of Ralphie shooting his eye out with a Red Ryder BB gun or Darren McGavin marveling at his leg lamp. As you read this, some TV somewhere is probably playing A Chri...
Queens of the Stone Age to Reissue Debut Album with Original Tracklist and Artwork
Queens of the Stone Age are reissuing their acclaimed self-titled debut as well as two other albums. The band’s 1998 self-titled LP will be back in print for the first time in a decade. Available on October 21st, the vinyl reissue will feature the album’s original tracklist and artwork by Frank Kozik. It’ll be pressed on both standard black and limited edition opaque orange vinyl. Additionally, a digital version of the reissue is available to stream beginning today (listen below). New reissues of 2013’s …Like Clockwork and 2017’s Villains will follow on December 9th. …Like Clockwork has been recut from its original master tapes, which will be pressed on limited opaque aqua vinyl with alternate artwork from Boneface. The Villains reissue will be available on limited edition leaf-green trans...
The Cure Announce Wish 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition with 24 Unreleased Tracks
The Cure will mark the 30th anniversary of their album Wish by releasing an expanded deluxe reissue on October 7th. Remastered by The Cure’s Robert Smith and Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios, the 3xCD/2xLP set spans 45 tracks, including the original 1992 album plus 21 previously unreleased demos. Also included are the four tracks from The Cure’s 1993 mail-order only cassette Lost Wishes, which have never appeared on CD or digitally, as well as a previously unreleased song called “A Wendy Band” from the 1992 Manor Studio sessions, an alternate mix of live favorite “From The Edge Of The Deep Green Sea,” and a previous unheard live version of “End” from 1992. Below, you can hear “Uyea Sound,” as it appeared on Lost Wishes. Pre-orders for the Wish deluxe set are now ongoing. You can find th...
Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill” Hits No. 8 on Billboard Hot 100 in US
It took more than four decades, but Kate Bush finally has a top 10 single to her name in the US. Thanks to prominent presence in Season 4 of Stranger Things, the UK singer’s 1985 single, “Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God),” sits at No. 8 on the Billboard Hot 100 this week. A combination of 18,300 digital song sales, 17.5 million streams, and 392,000 radio airplays propelled “Running Up That Hill” to No. 8 — just behind new releases from Harry Styles, Jack Harlow, and Lizzo (via Billboard). In the process, Bush secured her first-ever top 10 single in the US; prior to now, Bush’s previous peak on the Hot 100 came in November 1985, when “Running Up That Hill” hit No. 30. “Running Up That Hill” also re-entered the UK top songs chart at No. 8 — two spots below the previous high set in 2012...
Kate Bush Acknowledges Renewed Interest in “Running Up That Hill” in Rare Statement
Kate Bush has issued a rare statement acknowledging the renewed interest in her song “Running Up That Hill” thanks to its inclusion in Season 4 of Stranger Things. “You might’ve heard that the first part of the fantastic, gripping new series of Stranger Things has recently been released on Netflix. It features the song, ‘Running Up That Hill’ which is being given a whole new lease of life by the young fans who love the show – I love it too!” Bush wrote in a brief message posted to her website. “Because of this, ‘Running Up That Hill’ is charting around the world and has entered the UK chart at No. 8. It’s all really exciting! Thanks very much to everyone who has supported the song,” Bush added. “I wait with bated breath for the rest of the series in July.” Advertisement Related Video Bush ...
Pavement Unveil Terror Twilight and Spit on a Stranger Reissues: Stream
Happy April 8th to all Pavement fans who celebrate: two long-awaited projects, reissues of 1999’s Terror Twilight LP and Spit on a Stranger EP, are out now on Matador Records, and they’re available to stream below. Pavement first announced they were reissuing their final album back in January. Terror Twilight: Farewell Horizontal compiles a remastered version of the original album, B-sides, home demos, rehearsal tapes, and live recordings from the era on 4xLP and 2xCD editions. In addition, the package features the rough tracks from a scrapped studio session recorded at Sonic Youth’s Echo Canyon studio. In all, the reissue spans 45 songs — 28 of which have never been heard before. The Spit on a Stranger reissue, meanwhile, presses the EP to 12-inch vinyl for the first time. ...
Phoebe Bridgers Pens Essay for Bon Iver’s Self-Titled 10th Anniversary Reissue
Bon Iver have reissued their 2011 sophomore album Bon Iver for its tenth anniversary, complete with a special essay written by Phoebe Bridgers. Stream the LP below on Apple Music and Spotify. The new edition of the studio set features all 10 songs on the original tracklist along with live versions of “Hinnom, TX,” “Wash.,” “Beth/Rest,” and bonus tracks “I Can’t Make You Love Me” and “Babys” recorded at AIR Studios. In her poetic introduction, Bridgers lays out her personal history as a fan of Bon Iver and their music, detailing her memories of the self-titled album in delicate second-person prose. Advertisement Related Video “The second Bon Iver record came out. It did not sound the way you expected,” she writes. “It was massive, sprawling, unbelievably complex — The Beach Boys on opiates....
Daft Punk Streaming Rare Live Performance from 1997 and ‘Homework’ Deluxe Edition
Surprise! To celebrate the 25th anniversary of Daft Punk’s debut album Homework, a rare recording of the duo performing maskless in 1997 will stream on Twitch beginning at 5:22 p.m. ET / 2:22 p.m. PT. The recording in question is taken from Daft Punk’s December 17th, 1997 gig at the Mayan Theater in Los Angeles as part of their “Daftendirektour.” Today’s Twitch stream is billed as an “exclusive and time limited piece of content” that will only be shown once. Daft Punk have also released a digital deluxe edition of Homework featuring 15 remixes, nine of which were previously unavailable on streaming platforms. The expanded tracklist includes contributions from Masters At Work, DJ Sneak, Todd Terry, Motorbass, Slam, Ian Pooley, I:Cube, Roger Sanchez & Junior Sanchez, and more. It’s avail...
Celebrating Thierry Mugler’s Inimitable Legacy
Prolific fashion designer Thierry Mugler died on Jan. 23 at the age of 73. Through the 1980s and 1990s, the French designer helped to shape an era of colourful catwalks with artfully sculpted and larger than life designs. More recently, Thierry Mugler and his eponymous brand experienced a renaissance since stars like Cardi B and Kim Kardashian were often seen wearing his archival creations — and we couldn’t help but indulge in finding Mugler’s most over-the-top ’90s fashion designs. It was 2019 when Mugler charmed Instagram’s influential set of baddies. Cardi B showed up at the 2019 Grammys in a Mugler Couture oyster gown from 1995 that was inspired by the 1480’s painting The Birth of Venus by Botticelli. The following year, the “WAP” singer wore a...
