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Nicolas Cage is having a bit of a rough time. Last month, he drunkenly got married in Vegas. Four days later, he filed to have the marriage annulled. But the woman he married, Erika Koike, says that the marriage was real and is seeking spousal support. So how is Nicolas Cage coping? Karaoke. This past Sunday, 4/21, was the third anniversary of Prince's death. And that very same day, as TMZ reports,...
In Aldous Harding's video for "The Barrel," Harding, a singer and songwriter from New Zealand, stares into the camera. She stares hard. She stares in a way that could only be described as "Lynchian" -- half-smiling, never breaking her gaze, holding her eyes on us for so long that, even through the medium of music video, we start to feel uncomfortable. In some shots, she stares at something off-camera,...
Last month, when Mac DeMarco announced his new album Here Comes The Cowboy with the lead single "Nobody," Mitski fans quickly noted the similarities to her 2018 LP Be The Cowboy, which also had a single called "Nobody." Some of those fans were pretty mad at him about it. And in a new interview with Huck magazine, which took place the day after the album announce, DeMarco directly addresses the controversy: For...
Back around Dilla Day, I took a look at one of the most famous sirens in hip-hop and dance music -- the wooooop that kicked off Mantronix's 1988 sample-collage classic "King Of The Beats" and became Dilla's signature drop during the last few years of his life. And while it's a funny sort of example of how you don't even need to use a melody or a break to create an instantly recognizable touchstone...
South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg gave us another illuminating peak into his musical tastes in a recent interview with the Los Angeles Times. At one point, Buttigieg was asked about the Harvard Crimson essay he wrote in 2003 as an undergrad on Dave Matthews Band, Radiohead, and 9/11. “One summer later, it seemed everyone on campus was listening to Radiohead. The band’s tone of alienation and danger—more...
The 2020 presidential candidates would like us to believe they’re just like us. And music, as they see it, is the great equalizer. Beto O’Rourke was once in a band with Cedric Bixler-Zavala of At The Drive-In and the Mars Volta. During a recent presidential campaign stop, he said that “it would be an honor to have the Mars Volta play anything along the campaign or in this presidency.” Pete...
If you were a rock photographer in the mid-'60s, being invited to photograph Bob Dylan was perhaps the best thing that could happen to you. You'd get a front-row view to the then-burgeoning countercultural revolution. You'd get to trade wisdom with the tousle-haired genius who wrote "Visions of Johanna.” And, if all went well, you'd have your photo credit slapped onto some of the most definitive...
Last week, Flying Lotus announced his new album, Flamagra, the producer's first proper full-length in five years, since 2014's You're Dead. The thing's stuffed and star-studded -- it has 27 tracks in all, and its first single, "Fire Is Coming," features none other than David Lynch. Today, FlyLo is sharing two new tracks from it, which he's allowed to do because there are so many of them. Neither of...
If you were a rock photographer in the mid-’60s, being invited to photograph Bob Dylan was perhaps the best thing that could happen to you. You’d get a front-row view to the then-burgeoning countercultural revolution. You’d get to trade wisdom with the tousle-haired genius who wrote “Visions of Johanna.” And, if all went well, you’d…
La Dispute were in a rut. After playing together (give or take a few members) for close to 15 years, the post-hardcore experimentalists were too stuck in routine and familiarity with each other to come up with ideas for their upcoming album. In search of something — anything — to jump-start their songwriting process, bass…
Admittedly, the name Intellexual is a bit of a forehead-slapper, but hear me out here: The record is good. Like, really good. You’d expect as much from Nico Segal and Nate Fox, guys who played a key role in crafting Chance The Rapper’s euphoric sound and who count Frank Ocean (“U-N-I-T-Y”), Kanye West (“Ultralight Beam”),…
As Weyes Blood, Natalie Mering has spent her career making more than just records: She’s created fully immersive experiences. The singer-songwriter has been self-releasing albums since she was 15, initially using the moniker “Wise Blood” from the Flannery O’Connor novel for her songs. For her self-released debut album The Outside Room, released in 2011, Mering…
In the beginning of 2017, Priests released their debut album Nothing Feels Natural. It was a long-awaited confirmation that this was one of the most exciting young rock bands of our time, and it wound up ranking towards the top of our list of the best albums of that year. Just under two years later,…
Coffee with Charlotte Gainsbourg seems like it should take place in black and white. There’s something distinctly classical about the 47-year-old, almost as if she walked out of the frame of an old film and into the streets of contemporary New York. But when we meet a few blocks from her apartment in the West…
Patrick Stickles does everything with intention. Having now released music via his Titus Andronicus project for over a decade, Stickles long ago proved that even in his work’s most aesthetically raw moments, there are layers of thought at play. So, while it may come as some surprise that he’s announcing a new album called An…
Is there a 2010s indie band more misunderstood than the Drums? When Jonny Pierce’s once-Brooklyn-based indie-pop project first emerged at the top of the decade with their indelible self-titled debut, it was with a wave of hype brought on by the typically mouth-foaming British music press and the local ubiquity afforded by notching multiple CMJ…
When William Lindsay arrived at Drexel University in 2010, Philadelphia still lagged behind his hometown of Columbus as far as music scene credibility went. The Caracara frontman recalls a vibrant “pay-to-play” scene dominated by an early incarnation of Twenty One Pilots, “The coolest band that was crushing those 200-cap shows.” Metalcore and its mutant toxic…
For someone who’s perpetually ahead of the curve, Laura Stevenson rarely seems to get the praise she deserves. The New York-based singer-songwriter has spent the past decade penning the type of songs that you can’t help but hold close to your heart, occasionally wiggling them loose to share them with people close to you. There’s…
Today, Tim Showalter returns with Eraserland, his sixth album as Strand Of Oaks. It almost didn’t happen. As the touring behind 2017’s Hard Love was coming to a close, Showalter found himself defeated. After the wild journey from his 2014 breakthrough HEAL to its follow-up, something didn’t click. Unsatisfied with his band, with the project…
“Jailbreak The Tesla” is an evocative title, one that can work as a mantra for the Phoenix hip-hop trio that created it. “That was kind of the idea of Injury Reserve,” says Nathaniel Ritchie, the rapper also known as Ritchie With A T — “taking this thing that’s supposed to be this futuristic modern car,…
Throughout SXSW last week, there was one question everyone invested in this year’s crop of emerging indie names seemed to be asking: “Have you seen Black Midi yet?”
Tracking Down is a Stereogum franchise in which we talk to artists who have been out of the spotlight for a minute.
The last time Dido booked a tour, it was 2003 and the soft-pop singer was riding high on the success of mid-’00s radio megahits “Thank You,” “Here With Me,” “White Flag,”
Plenty of bands have long histories, forged from bonds of friendship formed in a distant childhood past. Shared upbringings, shared surroundings — these can provide good raw material for a couple artists to come together and define their identity within and against the rest of the world. In the case of Isaac deBroux-Slone and Raina…
