Fresh off the release of their comeback single, “100,” last month, K-pop act SuperM dropped their new single and video, “Tiger Inside,” on Tuesday. The moody, dubstep-inspired track will be included on SuperM’s debut full-length album, Super One, due out September 25th. “Tiger Inside” was first teased during SuperM’s “Beyond …
Read More »Smashing Pumpkins Unleash New Songs 'Cyr,' 'The Colour of Love'
Following a mysterious countdown, Smashing Pumpkins have unleashed two tracks, “Cyr” and “The Colour of Love,” from the semi-reunited band’s upcoming album and follow-up to 2018’s Shiny and Oh So Bright, Vol. 1 / LP: No Past. No Future. No Sun. “Cyr is dystopic folly,” Billy Corgan said in a …
Read More »Tim Heidecker Contemplates Life After Death on New Song 'Nothing'
Tim Heidecker ponders the afterlife in “Nothing,” the latest single from his upcoming albumFear of Death, out September 25th via Spacebomb Records. Co-written with Natalie Mering, a.k.a. Weyes Blood, “Nothing” sees Heidecker coming to terms with mortality — and what lies on the other side: “Nothing, that’s what it amounts …
Read More »Tupac Love Letters, Notorious B.I.G. Crown Headed to Auction
Tupac Shakur’s teenage love letters and the Notorious B.I.G.’s “King of New York” crown are two of the top lots up for sale at the first Sotheby’s auction dedicated fully to hip-hop, taking place September 15th in New York. The auction will feature more than 120 items spanning hip-hop’s history, …
Read More »Busta Rhymes Previews New Album With 'The Don and the Boss,' Featuring Vybz Kartel
Busta Rhymes has tapped Vybz Kartel for a new song, “The Don and the Boss,” the first offering from the rapper’s next album, Extinction Level Event 2: The Wrath of God. The track boasts a booming beat with thick bass hits and brisk percussion holding down scattered synth loops and …
Read More »100 Gecs Pit Mushroom, Mouse Against Each Other in 'Hand Crushed By a Mallet' Remix Video
100 Gecs have recast the classic cat and mouse chase as a bonkers fever dream in the new video for their remix of “Hand Crushed by a Mallet” featuring Fall Out Boy, Craig Owens and Nicole Dollanganger. The animated video — directed by Dario Alva and written by Weston Allen …
Read More »Lil Uzi Vert Announces Live, Ticketed Virtual Performance
Lil Uzi Vert has announced a live virtual performance to be livestreamed on August 27th at 6:00 p.m. EST. The ticketed virtual concert will be made available to fans around the world for a flat rate of $15 per ticket. Passes for the show are on sale now; each ticket …
Read More »From W.A.S.P. to 'WAP': The Weird History of Moral Panics Over Lyrics
Conservative politicians and media figures absolutely freaked out over Megan Thee Stallion and Cardi B‘s Numbe One hit “WAP” last week, in the latest of a long series of panics over boundary-pushing lyrics in rap and rock. The new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now, with Brittany Spanos and Rob …
Read More »Watch Sammy Hagar and the Circle Cover Van Halen's 'Don't Tell Me (What Love Can Do)'
Sammy Hagar and his band the Circle have recorded a lockdown rendition of the 1995 Van Halen single “Don’t Tell Me (What Love Can Do).” The song, which Hagar hasn’t sung in 25 years, originally appeared on Balance and was partially inspired by the death of Kurt Cobain. “When I …
Read More »Muse Soundtrack a Sci-Fi Contagion in 'Simulation Theory' Trailer
Muse have announced that they’ll be releasing a new feature-length motion picture, Simulation Theory, in select international IMAX theaters on August 17th and across streaming platforms on August 21st. Based around their 2018 album of the same name, Simulation Theory is part concert film, part sci-fi fiction narrative. The movie …
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