Khalid reflects on death and reaches out for life guidance on his meditative new song “Self.” The minimal track opens with the singer crooning about his inner demons. “It’s gettin’ hard for me to breathe/’Cause the man that I’ve been runnin’ from is inside of me,” he sings over chiming …
Read More »Elrow, Promoters of Colorful Global Parties, Plot Las Vegas Residency
Barcelona-based party organizers Elrow will set up shop at the Encore Beach Club at the Wynn Hotel in Las Vegas for a residency that will stretch throughout the rest of 2019. The residency will comprise 10 events, the first of which is scheduled for May 19th. Other parties will be …
Read More »The Head and the Heart to Spend Nearly Half a Year on the Road
Indie folk group the Head and Heart will embark on an extensive North American tour this spring that will continue through the summer and fall. The trek covers the time before and after the band releases their upcoming album, Living Mirage, due out May 17th. It also includes an appearance …
Read More »Song You Need to Know: Christian Lee Hutson, 'Northsiders'
Christian Lee Hutson’s “Northsiders” is about memories that haunt. Hutson, an L.A.-based singer-songwriter who’s currently touring with Phoebe Bridgers and Conor Oberst’s Better Oblivion Community Center, spends most of the Bridgers-produced song recounting a naive adolescence with nostalgic remove and striking specificity: “We were so pretentious then, didn’t trust the …
Read More »BTS Ready New LP 'Map of the Soul: Persona'
BTS will release their seventh LP, Map of the Soul: Persona, on April 12th via Big Hit Entertainment. The South Korean boy band’s latest album follows a stream of 2018 releases: the Korean-language Love Yourself: Tear and compilation set Love Yourself: Answer and the Japanese-language Face Yourself. The chart-topping former …
Read More »Death of Prodigy's Keith Flint Ruled Suicide
The death of Prodigy singer Keith Flint has been ruled a suicide as a result of hanging, the BBC reports. A coroner revealed the cause of death to an inquest in Essex, England Monday. A toxicology report is still in the works and a full hearing is scheduled to take …
Read More »'Punk': Johnny Rotten, Marky Ramone Spar at 'Off the F-king Rails' Documentary Event
At the SIR Studio in West Hollywood Monday night, a panel discussion of punk-rock icons devolved into filth and fury — what better way to honor the Epix network’s new docuseries, Punk, which premieres on March 11th? At the heart of the disruption was John Lydon (a.k.a. Johnny Rotten). The …
Read More »Slipknot Ready New Album, Plot North American Tour
Slipknot announced that they will release their new album on August 9th alongside plans to tour North America this summer. The 29-city Knotfest Roadshow will start July 26th at the Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View, California and wrap September 8th at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion at the Woodlands, Texas. …
Read More »De La Soul's Catalog Set to Hit Streaming Services — Except Tidal
The catalog of rap legends De La Soul is set to hit streaming services after decades absent from any digital marketplace. The release will conclude a long-running dispute between De La and their label, Tommy Boy Records, and the attending legal complications that kept their fans from accessing their music …
Read More »Hear Mike Shinoda's Two New Songs 'Prove You Wrong,' 'What the Words Meant'
Linkin Park‘s Mike Shinoda unveiled two new songs, “Prove You Wrong” and “What the Words Meant.” Both tracks appear on the new deluxe edition of Shinoda’s solo debut, Post Traumatic. “Prove You Wrong” finds Shinoda alternately spitting and singing as the song deftly moves between a stomping verse and a …
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