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1. Gnarls Barkley Ends 18-Year Hiatus With New Song, LP

   18 years after the release of its second album, Gnarls Barkley is back with a new single.

2. Jutes Talks ‘Dilworth’ On ‘Lipps Service’

   Canadian alternative artist Jutes is the guest on the latest installment of the Lipps Service podcast.

3. CHOOSING MY RELIGION

   Oisín Walsh, half of Irish duo Spearside, once toyed with the idea of becoming a priest. It was a calling he shared with many of the artists who influenced him, who he noticed had flirted with religious life. A few years back, he reached a crossroads and took his religious urges seriously enough to explore […]

4. Pop Music’s New Independent Force: Inside the Studio with Tina Win

   Gearing up for the release of her next hit single ‘How To Be Cool’, a dance-pop track reminiscent of the female empowered sound of Lady Gaga’s Bad Romance era, it’s clear Tina Win is done waiting for permission. The 27 year old Romanian-American singer-songwriter is ready to roll out the tracks this year, and she’s […]

5. Metallica Moving Into Las Vegas’ Sphere

   Metallica has finally confirmed it will perform at Las Vegas' Sphere.

6. Rock Hall Nominees: Wu-Tang, INXS, Lauryn Hill

   Nominees are voted on by a panel of 1,200 artists and industry professionals.

7. American Football Go From Boys To Men On ‘Bad Moons’

   'LP4' will be available May 1 on Polyvinyl.

8. Every Outkast Album, Ranked

   André Lauren Benjamin and Antwan André Patton, better known to the world as André 3000 and Big Boi, were both born in Atlanta in 1975. After meeting at Lenox Square mall as teenagers, the two aspiring rappers started a group, first known as 2 Shades Deep. Taken under the wing of the Organized Noize production […]

9. Don’t Mess with Texan August Ponthier

   The truth was out there for August Ponthier. It just took leaving Texas to find it. Growing up queer in the conservative Deep South, the singer-songwriter often felt like an alien in their own hometown. That explains the apprehensive green Martian being led by the hand into a honky tonk on the cover of Ponthier’s […]

10. Shane Parish Unplugs Autechre 

    “Beats per minute” is not a concept that fingerstyle guitarists usually have to worry about. The world of instrumental solo acoustic guitar, rooted in the blues, modernized by John Fahey in the 1960s and carried on by practitioners such as Yasmin Williams, William Tyler and Glenn Jones, tends to move to pastoral and/or private rhythms. […]