Download | Listen via Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Play | Stitcher | Podchaser | RSS “He’s real.” Welcome to Westin Hills Asylum, where all your wildest dreams come true — literally. It’s a place filled with padded cells, future A-listers, an endless supply of cigarettes, and a TV that really puts the “wreck” in recreation room. Take a seat with

Track by Track is a recurring new music feature in which we give an artist the chance to dig deep into their latest full-length record, one song at a time. Silver Lake indie rockers Local Natives are back today with their new album, Violet Street. Available now from Loma Vista, you

HBO and Columbia Records have released For the Throne, the new album inspired by Game of Thrones. Stream it in full below via Apple Music or Spotify. For The Throne (Music Inspired by the HBO Series Game of Thrones) features a long list of prominent guest collaborators from all genres, including SZA,

After a four-year hiatus dedicated to self-discovery, Marina and the Diamonds has returned with a new moniker, MARINA, and new double album. Stream LOVE+FEAR below via Apple Music or Spotify. LOVE+FEAR follows 2015’s FROOT, but technically marks the Welsh pop artist’s first major release under her new name. It was recorded in

The electronic musician fka Chet Faker, Nick Murphy is back with his latest album, Run Fast Sleep Naked. Stream the whole thing below via Apple Music or Spotify. Featuring co-production from Dave Harrington, the record follows 2014’s Built on Glass and 2017’s Missing Link EP. It took four years for the effort to

ScHoolboy Q has released his new album, CrasH Talk, via Top Dawg Entertainment. Stream it in full below via Apple Music or Spotify. Spanning a total of 14 songs, today’s LP sees the South Central LA rapper collaborating with the likes of Kid Cudi, 21 Savage, Lil Baby, Ty Dolla $ign, and YG. It

Last year’s tragic passing of The Cranberries’ Dolores O’Riordan came as the Irish outfit was hard at work on what has now become their final album, In the End. Out via BMG, the full album is available to stream below through Apple Music and Spotify. Produced by longtime collaborator Stephen Street, the record

On Thursday morning, Bruce Springsteen rode on up on his horse with confirmation of his first new album in five years, Western Stars, due out June 14th via Columbia. As promised, he’s let loose his first new single off the record, “Hello Sunshine”. Seeing how the album draws inspiration from the

The countdown is over: Taylor Swift has returned. After teasing the world with cryptic Insta posts, tweets, and one outrageously gorgeous butterfly mural, the blockbuster pop star finally unleashed her new single, “ME!” Featuring an assist by Panic! At the Disco’s Brendon Urie, who’s no stranger to Swift’s catalogue, the new

Prolific Australian psych rockers King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard are back today with their new full-length, Fishing for Fishies. Subscribers of Apple Music and Spotify can listen below. The new LP comes two years after their five-album sprint in 2017 (Flying Microtonal Bananan, Murder of the Universe, Sketches of Brunswick

Back in November, we learned that LL Cool J had filed a trademark lawsuit against the promoters behind the hip-hop music festival Rock the Bells for lifting the name from his 1985 single. Well, he won. #mamasaidknockyouout According to Billboard, a California federal judge has ruled that festival promoters Guerrilla Union must

In the aftermath of his shotgun Vegas wedding, Nic Cage has wallowed away at Los Angeles karaoke bars, singing Prince’s “Purple Rain” in an especially angry manner. We saw one such video earlier this week; now, a second clip of Cage’s late-night croonings has surfaced. Per TMZ, this particular performance

Latin pop star Arcangel was arrested in Las Vegas early Thursday morning and charged with misdemeanor domestic battery. TMZ reports that Arcangel got into an altercation outside the Bound Bar around 3:30 a.m. local time. Surveillance footage obtained by police allegedly shows Arcangel violently kicking the victim up against a

Download | Listen via Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Play | Radio Public | Stitcher | RSS “Razzle and dazzle people with the right lies, and eventually they’ll go blind to the madness right in front of their faces.” Greetings travelers, The Fifth Dimension tumbles further into Jordan Peele’s

Britney Spears is back home. According to TMZ, the 37-year-old pop singer completed her 30-day program at a mental health facility, where it was reported she “needed to focus on herself” after caring for her father, Jamie, in the wake of his “life-threatening” colon rupture. On Thursday afternoon, Spears was spotted

Origins is a recurring feature that asks musicians if they can explain the different inspirations behind their new music. After years making a name for himself in the band Blue Blazer, Los Angeles indie songwriter Jonny Shane launched a solo project in the hopes of creating “more direct, autobiographical” material

Norwegian black metal legends Darkthrone will return with a new studio album, Old Star, on May 31st via Peaceville Records. The band has shared the first single from the record, “Hardship of the Scots”, an exercise in riffage that spans the many eras of heavy metal (stream below). Fenriz, one half of

The Black Keys have announced a new album, Let’s Rock, their first full-length in five years. The duo’s ninth LP overall, the 12-track effort is due June 28th via Easy Eye Sound/Nonesuch Records. While serving as the follow-up to 2014’s Turn Blue, a press release notes the new record harkens back to

Rapper Open Mike Eagle and comedian Baron Vaughn have combined their talents for a new Comedy Central series called The New Negroes. The weekly variety show is packed with multiple stand-up sets, and each episode boasts a new original song and music video by OME in collaboration with different music

While it doesn’t look like System of a Down are ready to record new music anytime soon, singer Serj Tankian has lent his instantly recognizable vocals to a cover of the Blue Öyster Cult classic “Godzilla” for the upcoming movie Godzilla: King of the Monsters. The track — a collaboration

TOMORROW X TOGETHER are the highest-selling new K-pop act of 2019. In March, the band of five teenage boys released their debut album, The Dream Chapter: STAR, and shared its lead single “Crown”. Now, the group has returned with the music video for another track, “Cat & Dog”. The catchy

It’s been 50 years since David Bowie’s first big hit, “Space Oddity”. Parlophone has been celebrating with a series of box sets, first with the already released Spying Through a Keyhole and then Clareville Grove Demos, which is due May 17th. Now, they’ve announced another collection of recordings titled The Mercury

Carly Rae Jepsen is scheduled to release her new album, Dedicated, next month. Already the pop star has given us early previews in “No Drug Like Me” and “Julien”. Now in the lead-up to the LP, Jepsen has filmed a session for BBC’s Live Lounge. For her two-song performance, Jepsen

Wu-Tang Clan are making the most of their 25th anniversary. With their celebratory tour set to kick off next month, the hip-hop icons are also prepping for the release of a new Showtime docu-series called Wu-Tang Clan: Of Mics and Men on May 10th. On top of that, RZA is

The Lowdown: On paper, the combination of Anthrax-style thrash metal with Fall Out Boy’s brand of pop-punk looks as mismatched as an orange juice and anchovy smoothie. We never find out what that shake would taste like, though, since Anthrax guitarist Scott Ian and Fall Out Boy’s Joe Trohman decided

Along with his own Grammy-winning catalog, Prince’s legacy lives on through the numerous hits he wrote for other artists. A forthcoming posthumous album will explore this songwriter side of The High Priest of Pop through his own demos. Due out later this summer, Originals boasts 15 previously unreleased Prince demos.

The Boss is back. Bruce Springsteen will return on June 14th with his first new album in five years, Western Stars. Consisting of 13 tracks, the album was recorded primarily at Springsteen’s home studio in New Jersey, with additional recording in California and New York. Longtime Springsteen collaborator Ron Aniello

Details of the 25th James Bond film were announced on Thursday morning during a live streaming event in Jamaica, home of James Bond creator Ian Fleming. Most notably, director Cary Joji Fukunaga confirmed the film’s cast, which includes returning cast members Daniel Craig as 007, Naomie Harris as Eve Moneypenny, Ben Whishaw

New York’s own Rico Nasty has teamed up with producer Kenny Beats for a new collaborative album called Anger Management. It’s available to stream in its entirety below via Apple Music or Spotify. The joint effort spans nine tracks, including titles like “Cold”, “Cheat Code”, and “Sell Out”. Atlanta hip-hop outfit

BROCKHAMPTON leader Kevin Abstract has released a new album titled ARIZONA BABY. It’s available to stream in full below via Apple Music and Spotify. Due out via Question Everything, Inc./RCA, the new solo collection marks Abstract’s first since American Boyfriend: A Suburban Love Story from 2016. It’s comprised of 11 tracks altogether, six

James Blake’s latest full-length, the nearly flawless Assume Form, is a practice in both emotional resonance and powerful collaborative choices. Appearances

Next month brings the release of the Jamila Woods album, LEGACY! LEGACY!. In the lead-up to the record, the Chicago R&B artist has

The Killers served as Jimmy Kimmel’s musical guest on Monday, performing “Land of the Free” live for the first time

Last week, Smino kicked off his “Hoopti Tour”, which comes in support of sophomore album NØIR. Offering fans a peek into

Last summer, Robyn made her grand return to the stage at a small private party in Ibiza. Turns out the

Earlier this year, The Killers released a brand new single called “Land of the Free”. Packaged with a powerful music

Origins is a recurring new music feature that presents artists with the task of delving into the inspirations behind their

Last night, Better Oblivion Community Center continued their inaugural tour with a standout performance at New York City’s Brooklyn Steel. During

Blood Orange is back today with a new music video for “Hope”, one of the countless standout tracks from 2018’s

Billie Eilish was just on Ellen this past October, but plenty has changed in only a few months. Our 2018

Three years after dropping their debut LP, Blue Wave, Operators are back. The trio of Dan Boeckner, Devojka, and Sam

Canadian punks PUP are back today with their new album, Morbid Stuff. The band’s third full-length overall can be streamed in

Jonas Brothers’ musical comeback continues today as the brotherly trio has unveiled another new single. It’s simply called “Cool” and

Don’t let their sophomore album fool you: Sego most certainly do not suck. Would we have really named them our

Track by Track is a new music feature in which we offer an artist the chance to dig deep into

BLACKPINK have premiered their new EP, Kill This Love. It’s available to stream below via Apple Music or Spotify. Kill

Earlier this year, Noname followed up the release of her masterful sophomore album, Room 25, with the one-off single “Song

During an appearance on The Tonight Show last month, ScHoolboy Q previewed a new Travis Scott collaboration called “CHopstick”. Now,

Veteran metallic hardcore act Ringworm are set to release their new album, Death Becomes My Voice, on May 3rd, via

When Marina announced her newest album, LOVE + FEAR, would be “two eight-track collections that form a set”, most listeners

For the past few years, director Nicolas Winding Refn has kept a fairly low profile in order to put together

Since the early 1980s, Francis Ford Coppola has dreamed of making a passion project he’s long called Megalopolis. The sprawling

Download | Listen via Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | Google Play | RSS  Our fourth season of Filmography, on the films of genre-blending dreamer

Tim Miller’s highly anticipated legacy sequel Terminator: Dark Fate doesn’t return from the future until November 1st. However, Paramount is

Those hungry for more spooky adventures from Ed (Patrick Wilson) and Lorraine Warren (Vera Farmiga) will have to wait a

Nobody should ever doubt a fan’s commitment, and AMC Theaters certainly doesn’t. That’s why they’re outdoing themselves with their forthcoming

The Pitch: A rebellious misfit hopping from one foster home to another, young Billy Batson (Asher Angel) longs to find his

Are you ready to watch 10 years and 22 films-worth of storytelling and universe building come to a climactic finale?

Sometimes dead is better, sure, but what about things that are exclusive and free? That’s why Consequence of Sound and

The Pitch: The Creed family — father Louis (Jason Clarke), mother Rachel (Amy Seimetz), eight-year-old daughter Ellie (Jeté Laurence), and toddler

Feature Artwork by​ Cap Blackard When Stephen King published his first novel, Carrie, on April 5, 1974, the New England

The Twilight Zone was one of the greatest case studies for the wide-reaching scope of science fiction. Rod Serling’s seminal

Since launching it back in the fall, Nick Cave has been actively interacting with fans via his online public forum,

In 1986, after years of work in animation, various other below-the-line contributions, and a pair of short films by his

This feature originally ran in April 2015. We’re revisiting in time for an extremely early Opening Day. With Opening Day

Welcome to Dissected, where we disassemble a band’s catalog, a director’s filmography, or some other critical pop-culture collection in the abstract.

A forlorn man wants to erase the memory of his ex-lover, and the pseudo-scientific process is depicted through him traversing

This feature originally ran in April 2015 and will be periodically updated and re-published with the latest Marvel releases. Welcome

(Editor’s Note: On the 35th anniversary of the iconic rockumentary This Is Spinal Tap, we are honored to have Marty

This article is being revisited in honor of This Is Spinal Tap turning 35 this weekend. I’d argue that it’s

The Lowdown: Most times when an irritated audience member feels the need to get their much-needed opinion out there, they’ll

The Lowdown: Billie Eilish is the poster child for a new pop generation — a generation that bucks the conventional

The Lowdown: The title of Andrew Bird’s new album, My Finest Work Yet, may seem presumptuous, even if almost every

The Lowdown: Tim Showalter’s work is never done. With his seventh album in just a decade, Eraserland, the man behind

They say nothing is certain but death and taxes. I would add another certainty to that list, which is that

The Lowdown: Thirteen years and seven albums into their career, Whitechapel have crafted one of their most fascinating works with

The Lowdown: In a day and age when a good number of rock and metal acts are playing it safe

The Lowdown: Rich the Kid, the self-proclaimed “best rapper in the world,” had a lot to prove. Although his debut

The Lowdown: If you dig into the records of Animal Collective co-frontman Dave Portner, you’ll soon hit water. It’s the

The Lowdown: At age 16, Chief Keef didn’t just emerge onto the rap scene; he erupted. During the early 2010s,

Lykke Li has announced a new, all-female music festival, set to take place in Los Angeles later this spring. YOLA

A brand-new Canadian festival called Chaos AB boasts an impressive lineup for its inaugural year. The two-day event, taking place

Festival d’été de Québec has unveiled its 2019 lineup. Now in its 52nd year, Canada’s largest outdoor music festival returns

The final lineup for Electric Funeral Fest IV has been announced, with Torche, Thou, Dead Meadow, Tombs, Acid Witch, and

Last summer, the prog-rock icons of YES celebrated their 50th anniversary with their extensive “#YES50” US tour. Now, the Rock

Hotel California is one of the most commercially successful album of all time, sitting at No. 3 on the all-time

This fall, Joanna Newsom will return to the road for her first live performances in three years. “The Strings/Keys Incident

Elvis Costello & The Imposters and Blondie will team up for a coast-to-coast co-headlining tour this summer. The 13-city tour

Denver purveyors of doom Khemmis will take their riffs on the road this summer. The band announced the “North American

Sigur Rós frontman Jónsi and his partner/collaborator Alex Somers have announced North American tour dates to commemorate the 10th anniversary of their 2009 album, Riceboy Sleeps. Each

(Editor’s note: The following review covers the first five episodes of Chilling Adventures of Sabrina‘s second season.) The Pitch: After choosing to

The arm of Cowboy Bebop has extended over American pop culture for so long now that seeing a live-action version actually start

It’s been exactly two weeks since Netflix unleashed its epic trailer for Stranger Things 3, and naturally, die-hard fans have

Shudder is keeping things in the family for its forthcoming TV series adaptation of Stephen King and George A. Romero’s Creepshow. Today,

Ted Bundy was a killer. It’s important to remember that part first. He was a serial killer who specifically preyed

Download | Listen via Spotify | Google Play | Radio Public |  Stitcher  |  RSS “The road to hell is paved in good intentions…” Greetings travelers, The

(Editor’s note: The following review covers the first three episodes of Barry‘s second season.) The Pitch: It’s been weeks since hitman-turned-aspiring

(Editor’s note: The following review covers the first three episodes of Veep‘s seventh season.) The Pitch: It’s time for a “New

(Editor’s note: The following review covers the complete eight episodes of Hanna‘s first season.) The Pitch: Ex-CIA operative Eric Heller (Joel Kinnaman, Altered

The Pitch: Sixty years after the original series changed the course of science fiction forever, The Twilight Zone returns for