Author: Press Room
Brakence is back in action. Today, the Ohio singer-songwriter returned with the announcement of Marrow, his first new album since 2022’s chronic pain-inspired Hypochondriac. Check out the album art and first single “Ready or Not” below. Marrow drops October 23 via Columbia.Since sharing Hypochondriac, Brakence has appeared sporadically on other artists’ songs. He collaborated with Quadeca on the 2023 track “A la Carte”; featured on two songs from Colliding With Mars’ 2024 album Time to Meet God; and contributed to the Aries song “Sleepwalker.”
The VMAs may have already passed, but Willi Carlisle (and a puppet Tyler Childers) may have just given us a new contender for our favorite video of the year. Co-written by Carlisle, Kenny Miles, and Childers, “Gas Station” is a tale of finding your identity on the road and away from convention — even if sustenance comes from a couple of questionable gas station hot dogs. From Carlisle’s upcoming Childers-produced double album, The Universal Bubba, the video for “Gas Station” finds a rambling Carlisle accompanied by puppet versions of Childers (complete with a signature green cardigan) and his band, the…
Death From Above 1979 have announced ‘Private Lives’ – their first studio album in six years. Check out new tour dates and the “ripping” new title track. The new record marks the first from the Canadian rock duo since they released ‘Is 4 Lovers’ back in 2021, and is set to arrive on January 29 via their original label Last Gang/MNRK. Musically, the LP is expected to find the band more invigorated than ever, and was written following several retrospective performances from Sebastien Grainger and Jesse F. Keeler in recent years. Those shows included a tour celebrating the 20th anniversary of…
It’s almost the midterm elections, and you know what that means: a caravan of scary migrants is trekking toward the border, prepared to invade the nation with their foreign criminal ways — according to Donald Trump‘s administration and right-wing media, anyway. With early voting set to begin in some states, and Election Day only a few weeks away, Republicans are using every tool in their arsenal to try to mitigate an electoral backlash to the president’s extremely unpopular first two years back in office. That means fear mongering about migration from South and Central America. But it’s hard not to…
Father John Misty is back with another one-off single. “The X-panded Universe” is either Josh Tillman’s second or third new song of 2026, following “The Payoff” and “The Old Law.” (“The Old Law” had been floating around since 2024 under a different title, “God’s Trash.”) Maybe it’s just me, but it kind of sounds like he’s singing about the latter-day Marvel Cinematic Universe: “In the crossover event/God is only as good as the villains he invents…There must be timelines like this/Where heroes don’t exist.” Listen and decide for yourself below.Tillman shared his last Father John Misty LP, Mahashmashana, in late…
Senator Eric Schmitt thought he had Jack Smith dead to rights. Smith, the former special counsel for the Department of Justice, testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday over his role in investigating Donald Trump attempt to overthrow the results of the 2020 election. Schmitt, a Trump loyalist, wanted to nail him down on a complicated web of alleged lies and collusion with Georgia officials, who were also investigating the president. Schmitt’s key point of evidence: Smith’s presence at an Atlanta Hawks game in Georgia a day after Fani Willis, the Fulton County prosecutor, admitted to a relationship with…
Outkast’s lawsuit against Ovrkast asks how much difference a few letters make. The duo’s trademark company argues that the younger rapper’s name is confusingly similar to theirs. Rebecca Tushnet, a Harvard Law professor who studies trademark law, isn’t convinced. “I’m sort of skeptical of the underlying claim in part because both of these words, when spelled correctly, are completely standard English words with very different meanings,” she tells Rolling Stone. “And I don’t think that you want that level of monopoly over potential performance names.” High Schoolers LLC, the company controlled by André 3000 and Big Boi, sued Ovrkast, born…
Guitarist joined old friend on the Raconteurs’ “Broken Boy Soldier” and the live premiere of White’s “Bless Yourself” Jack White welcomed an old friend, the Strokes‘ Nick Valensi, at his L.A. show Monday night for a couple of songs: the Raconteurs’ “Broken Boy Soldier” and White’s “Bless Yourself.” The latter performance, a song off White’s 2024 album, No Name, was the first time White played it live. Video that White posted from the concert, which took place at the Hollywood Palladium, showed Valensi and him in a classic-rock guitar showdown trading pentatonic lead riffs like the Allman Brothers. (White posted…
Long before the superstar added “Cleveland!” to The Life of a Showgirl deluxe edition, everyone from R.E.M. to Randy Newman and Kid Cudi paid tribute to the the jewel of Northeastern Ohio When Taylor Swift dropped the track listing to the deluxe edition of Life of a Showgirl earlier this month, the title that jumped out to most people was “Cleveland!” This came not long after news that Swift and husband Travis Kelce had purchased a lakefront house near downtown Cleveland, not far from the eastern suburbs where he grew up, and natives of “The Land” were very curious to…
Ryley Walker is back with a new label and his first new music in five years. Today, the singer-songwriter-guitar announced his signing to AD 93 with a new song, “Carrier,” his first release since the 2021 album Course in Fable. Check the track, and the Kendra Calhoun-directed video it’s paired with, below.Walker described “Carrier” in press materials as a “clock-out jam,” a song he chipped away at after long shifts at his service industry gig in New York. “I was thinking of people in my hometown of Rockford, Illinois. Wearing SpongeBob pajama pants to a funeral-type heads. I imagined them…
