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Danny Elfman continues his yearlong plan to release new music on the 11th of every month with “Kick Me,” a punk tirade from the Oingo Boingo singer that attacks elitism. “Kick me I‘m a celebrity, kick me I‘m a celebrity/Losers not invited,” Elfman snarls on the track. “Kick me I‘m …

Rolling Stone interview series Unknown Legends features long-form conversations between senior writer Andy Greene and veteran musicians who have toured and recorded alongside icons for years, if not decades. All are renowned in the business, but some are less well known to the general public. Here, these artists tell their …

Godspeed You! Black Emperor return this spring with their new double album G_d’s Pee at State’s End!, the Montreal post-rock collective’s first LP since 2017’s Luciferian Towers. The album, due out April 2nd, features four tracks — two 20 minutes in length, two around six minutes — with a vinyl …

Finneas has joined forces with Until the Ribbon Breaks for a reimagining of “What They’ll Say About Us.” Inspired by Black Lives Matter and actor Nick Cordero’s death from Covid-19 complications, the video features footage from protests, a quote from James Baldwin (“I can’t believe what you say, because I …

Carnage would be a broad subject for any artist, especially anyone who has devoted an album solely to the art of the murder ballad. But this is Nick Cave, and in true Bad Seed fashion, there’s a twist: The crime scene here is spiritual rather than corporeal. Carnage, a collaboration …

“You hear Georgia when I open my mouth/don’t make no difference what I’m talking about,” Charlie Starr sings in the very first line of Blackberry Smoke‘s new song “You Hear Georgia,” laying bare the focus of the group’s new album — an ode to their home state also titled You …

Pussy Riot have released a new song, “Toxic,” featuring Dorian Electra and produced by 100 Gecs’ Dylan Brady. The song finds the Russian punk outfit melding their style with Electra and Brady’s hyper-pop acumen, with the track fluctuating between blistering rave beats and a completely blown-out chorus. “Come here mansplain …

Bartees Strange and his band performed an NPR Tiny Desk concert in the basement of his studio in Falls Church, Virginia — not too far from both his and NPR’s home base in Washington, D.C. The indie artist played several songs from his debut album Live Forever, released last year; …

The new film Judas and the Black Messiah tells the story of the FBI’s infiltration of the Black Panther movement in the United States. Directed by Shaka King, the movie is set to the backdrop of what is now acknowledged to be the 1969 assassination of Black Panther leader Fred …

New Orleans R&B singer Dawn Richard has announced Second Line, her first album since signing to her new label Merge Records. The LP is due out on April 30th and Richard describes the project as “a movement to bring pioneering Black women in electronic music to the forefront.” “You never …