Music

On Monarca, the Puerto Rican rapper Eladio Carrion stretches the bounds of trap en español without ever abandoning its core. The follow-up to his 2020 debut, Sauce Boyz, Carrion’s latest album riffs on spiky trap corridos, drippy emo-rap, and bludgeoning drill sounds while pulling an unexpected roster of collaborators into …

Tyler, the Creator has dropped new song “Tell Me How.” He originally wrote the track for a Coca-Cola commercial released last month. “Tell me how it tastes, yeah, the good, good, good,” he raps over a bouncy soundscape. “I’m a little down with the good, good, good.” In the commercial, …

Pussy Riot have released a new song, “Sexist,” which will appear on their upcoming Panic Attack EP, set to arrive March 11th. The new track finds Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova linking up with fellow Russian musician, Hofmannita, while White Punk and Count Baldor produced the menacing beat. In a statement, …

UPDATE (3/2): The members of Akron/Family and Miles Seaton’s widow, Leanne Pedante, have shared a new remembrance page honoring the musician, who died last month. The page also revealed that Seaton’s cause of death was a single-car crash on I-5 near Fresno, California on February 17th; it’s still unclear what …

Record Store Day has teamed up with Vans to release two LPs in support of black-owned record shops. Songs for You, Vols 1 & 2 will be released this summer for Record Store Day 2021. Nineteen artists will be featured on both compilations, including Curtis Mayfield, Otis Redding, Summer Walker, …

Coldplay‘s “Fix You” was always something of a hymn, and last night, the song finally got the choir it needed. On their MTV Unplugged performance, the seven members of South Korean pop powerhouse BTS delivered an angelic, meticulously arranged, goose-bump-inducing cover of the song.It was a ridiculously perfect performance that …

Halestorm have recorded a predictably raucous rendition of the Who’s 1974 hit, “Long Live Rock,” to accompany a documentary also titled Long Live Rock. The song, with its big riffs and anthemic vocals, is a perfect fit for the group. Singer-guitarist Lzzy Hale exalts rock & roll with the same …

Charles Lloyd & the Marvels have released a cover of Leonard Cohen‘s “Anthem,” off their upcoming album Tone Poem. The song comes off of Cohen’s 1992 LP The Future and is known for the lines, “There is a crack in everything/That’s how the light gets in.” The cover features Greg Leisz’ serene steel …

The Weeknd’s Super Bowl LV halftime performance will be the focus of the new Showtime documentary The Show that goes behind the scenes of the 13-minute gig. The 90-minute Pepsi-produced documentary, directed by Nadia Hallgren, will air later this year. Pepsi also dropped a teaser for the upcoming film. The …

Los Angeles rock outfit Cherry Glazerr have released a new song, “Big Bang.” The track is a concise bit of alt-rock craftsmanship, packing a sprawling universe into its sub-three minute runtime. “Big Bang” swells effortlessly from a dreamy simmer to an expansive peak flecked with synths as frontwoman Clementine Creevy …