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The sixth album from noise-punk-rap cyber-transgressives Death Grips is one of their least aggressive offerings to date, but still quite disruptive. Special guest DJ Swamp, the enfant terrible of the Nineties turntablism boom, is almost like a fourth member of the band, squiggling and squarking all over Year of the …

Last year, as Amy Helm was amassing material for her second solo album, she had one song that kept gnawing at her. Co-written by Mike “M.C.” Taylor and the National/Bob Weir sideman Josh Kaufman, “This Too Shall Light” was equal parts swinging groove and the spiritual heaviness that Taylor brings …

Pusha-T announced a headlining U.S. tour. The rapper/G.O.O.D. Music president will promote his recently issued third LP, the Kayne West-produced Daytona, on the brief trek, which launches August 3rd in St. Louis, Missouri and wraps October 13th in Oakland, California. Fellow G.O.O.D. Music emcees Valee and Sheck Wes – who …

Miguel will continue to showcase his 2017 album War & Leisure on his newly announced The Ascension North American tour. After wrapping upthe War & Leisure trek in April, the latest slate of 26 dates kicks off late summer with an August 23rd show in Boston and works its way …

Up and coming crooner Jacquees possesses one of the great tones in contemporary R&B – glinting and willowy, his voice skims over beats with guileless, melismatic charm. But on his debut album his musical choices are as single-minded as his voice is elastic. He slips from one romantic conquest to …

Caroline Rose is looking for optimal fun. This is why, on a visit to the Toledo, Ohio, zoo, she steers us to an elevated wooden walkway where we can feed giraffes. “I know their tongues are, like, this big,” she says. It’s a morning off on Rose’s year-plus tour for …

Death Cab for Cutie grapple with the inevitability of change in the video for their new song “Gold Rush.” The track marks the first single off the group’s upcoming albumThank You for Today, out August 17th via Atlantic. “Gold Rush” is a rumbling alt-rock ballad that finds singer Ben Gibbard …

By now, Kanye West and Kid Cudi’s collaborative effort Kids See Ghosts has hit all major streaming services. Its release last night – a livestreamed listening party outside of Los Angeles – was clouded in confusion. The event was delayed several hours without any updates, and one attendee described the …

It’s a foggy May evening at La Marina, a bar and lounge nestled along the Hudson River at the northern tip of Manhattan. Behind the dock, sweltering Caribbean dance grooves blast from an outdoor sound system. Hundreds ofparty-goers amass behind the restaurant, sweating under the influence ofperreo– a doggy-style dance …

Virginia Hanlon Grohl, mother of Foo Fighters leader Dave Grohl, is developing a docuseries based on her 2017 book, From Cradle to Stage, featuring interviews with fellow music moms. For the original project, Virginia spoke with numerous mothers of famous musicians, including Marianne Stipe (mother of R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe), Donna …