On 1971’s There’s A Riot Goin’ On, Sly And The Family Stone filtered the creeping hangover of the ’60s into a murky, slurring monument of fugue-state funk. It was an album that reflected the twilight mood of its time: Woodstock optimism ossifying into Altamont dread, “free love” fading into porno reels inside 42nd St.…

According to Pitchfork, Brian Eno has announced a new collection called Music For Installations, which is a fairly appropriate name since Eno reportedly wrote a lot of the music for art installations—which, up until now, was the only place you could hear some of this. The compilation will include “new, rare, and…

Guided By Voices packs more musical ideas into a single album than most bands do into their entire careers, and it does it the old-fashioned way: by keeping them short. Led by the compulsively prolific Robert Pollard, the Dayton, Ohio-bred group rarely breaks the two-minute mark—three minutes would be edging toward…

The Smashing Pumpkins’ attempt to claw their way back to relevance isn’t going super well so far, with original bassist D’Arcy Wretzky being left out of the reunion despite assurances from Billy Corgan that she’d be involved and with tickets for the big Shiny And Oh So Bright Tour reportedly not selling as quickly as…

In Soundtracks Of Our Lives, The A.V. Club looks at the dying art of the movie companion album, those “various artists” compilations made to complement films on screen but that often end up taking on lives of their own.

If the Grammys are out of touch, the iHeartRadio awards are almost too in touch, celebrating the most popular of popular music and rejecting stuff that’s unnecessarily hip or cool. It’s a show, in other words, that can award Maroon 5 with Best Duo/Group Of The Year in 2018 even though Migos was also nominated. Of…

Three staffers, three unabashed recommendations.

Ministry’s AmeriKKKant is cathartically enjoyable but ultimately uninspiring; while Young Fathers’ Cocoa Sugar is another solid dispatch from their distinct, post-genre space; and Of Montreal turns in its spaciest, most sonically interesting set of songs yet with White Is Relic/Irrealis Mood. These, plus Erasure,…

The purest expression of David Byrne’s creative outlook can’t be found on a Talking Heads record or in an elaborate installation or in any of the thousands of words he’s written about songs, current events, cycling, and art. It’s in a movie, and it’s not even the first movie that springs to mind: In the “Shopping Is A…

Boy, it’s been fun as hell watching Rae Sremmurd turn into Rae Sremmurd. The duo popped up in 2015 with a bunch of mean, stuff-you-in-the-locker bangers like “No Flex Zone” and “No Type” and an album that worked way better than it had any right to; its sequel, SremmLife 2, was even better, with a world-conquering…

NME’s Big Reads are going digital only, as Variety reports the storied British magazine will no longer publish a print edition. Time Inc. U.K. announced the decision earlier today with a statement from group managing director of music Paul Cheal.

On Valentine’s Day, Beach House gifted us a new single, “Lemon Glow,” and the promise of a new album this spring. Today the duo has formally announced their seventh full-length album, appropriately titled 7, will be released May 11 via Sub Pop, and they released a second single called “Dive.” They will also head out…

David Byrne has a new album coming out this Friday called American Utopia, and last week he posted a photo on Instagram of the many collaborators he worked with while writing and recording the album over the past two years. It was a rather straightforward post that Byrne probably didn’t think would incite any…

Legendary hip-hop duo Eric B & Rakim reunited last year for a one-off show in honor of the 30th anniversary of Paid In Full, and now it looks like the two of them are hoping to make that reunion a bit more permanent with a proper tour that will kick off this spring. Eric B & Rakim announced the tour on Twitter,…

After teasing new music this weekend with an eerie, tarantula-covered video and revealing full album details yesterday, Neko Case has released the first single from her upcoming seventh solo album, Hell-On, due out June 1 on her longtime label ANTI-. In yesterday’s announcement, Case wrote, “I don’t know what genre…

At this point, it would almost be faster for us to compile a list of celebrities who aren’t releasing their own cryptocurrency, then get savvy readers to start using that list as a means to buy internet goods and services. The dollar is an illusion, baby! Put all your savings into NewswireCoin! But in the meantime,…

As confirmed by The Sacramento Bee (via Variety), Tower Records founder Russ Solomon died on Sunday night from an apparent heart attack, supposedly while drinking whiskey and making jokey comments about the Academy Awards with his family—a moment that, as The Sacramento Bee notes, seems like “the perfect coda” for a…

On Friday, we reported that rapper and music mogul Rick Ross had been rushed to the hospital following a possible heart attack of complications from pneumonia. Ross had supposedly been found unresponsive in his home and was placed on an extracorporeal membrane oxygenation machine (which is used to aid in heart and…

The world is getting a little too stuffy and—ugh—normal these days, as fewer and fewer people are going out in public with scary face paint and dirty black hoodies covered in skulls, so Rob Zombie and Marilyn Manson are going on tour together to give everyone’s conservative moms a much-needed scare. As announced in a…