Author: Press Room
The singer previews the record, out in October, with the new single “Enough” Dawn Richard will go back to the beginning on her forthcoming studio album, Creole Culture. Out Oct. 9, the record draws extensively from the artist’s New Orleans roots without relying too heavily on historical nostalgia. “Creole Culture is my way of saying that New Orleans culture doesn’t have to live in the past to be authentic,” Richard shared in a statement. “It can be progressive. It can be global. It can be pop culture. It can look like me.” The record follows her albums New Breed (2019)…
Music publications BrooklynVegan, Alternative Press, Revolver, and Goldmine have been gutted by parent company Veeps, according to various sources. Nearly all staff at each publication appear to have been laid off yesterday. Veeps, which is now part of Live Nation, seems to have owned the publications since 2024 or 2025. Pitchfork has emailed Veeps and Live Nation representatives for comment. Emails to BrooklynVegan staffers, with the exception of founder Dave Levine, bounced back.Veeps was founded by Good Charlotte’s Benji and Joel Madden and has operated for many years as a ticketed livestream platform. Publicist Jacob Daneman mourned BrooklynVegan on X…
Dawn Richard has revealed details of her first solo album in half a decade. Creole Culture arrives October 9 via Merge. Big Freedia guests on the opening track. Richard has also shared “Enough,” a second taste of the LP following “Baby, Can We?”, her June single with Durand Bernarr. Listen below.In press materials, Richard described “Enough” as being about “unlearning the lie that your value has to be earned.” She added, “Sometimes the greatest act of resistance is believing you were always worthy.”According to Richard, Creole Culture completes a trilogy that began with her 2019 album New Breed and continued…
I’m guessing you’re a fan of the film Stargate.Yeah.Did you also watch the show?Yes, I did. The most interesting thing about this whole thing is that these stargates actually exist, and in ancient ruins, they’re still actually there. We haven’t figured out how to really use them, and we have to assume that there were many more that were built, thousands of years ago.Is it your dream to figure out how to use a stargate?I think the subject is not as farfetched and fictional as we know it. I think we’re closer to having such things than we are far…
Weezer have announced a world tour for 2026/2027, including dates in the UK, Europe, North America and Japan. Find all the details below. READ MORE: Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo: “If Taylor Swift ever wants to make a rock album, I’d love to help out!” The LA band will hit the road this autumn in support of their 20th studio record, ‘The Gold Album’, which is released on August 21 via Reprise/Warner. Rivers Cuomo and co. are set to kick off the extensive trek – dubbed ‘The Gathering’ world tour – with a previously confirmed North American leg throughout September and October 2026.…
The at-home listening experience has long been a fundamental part of the creative process for singer/songwriter Nia Smith. The native Londoner first gained international notoriety during the early days of the COVID-19 lockdown, when her home—by necessity—also functioned as her recording space and listening lab. Initially posting slowed-down, soulful covers of songs by Bruno Mars, Adele, and more to TikTok (where they quickly went viral), she soon began introducing original music, which was embraced with equal fervor by fans and music industry insiders. Smith has been prolific in the past several years. Her first EP, “Give Up the Fear,” was…
In 2022 and 2023, shortly before the portable drone changed armed conflict forever, the war in Ukraine was defined largely by a single, simple statistic: which side could shoot more artillery shells. The answer, for most of those first two years, was Russia. They had a massive stockpile of 152-millimeter shells, produced by a flourishing domestic industry and purchased strategically from third parties around the globe. This latter point was deliberate. Before the invasion of Ukraine had even begun, Russia was buying up stockpiles of shells from other former Soviet republics and colonies, re-taking control of the global supply of…
C aden Alvarez borrowed an orange shirt from his mom, wound himself in a leafy garland, and boarded the subway from his Bronx home to New York’s Union Square. It was late April 2025, and he’d scored free tickets to a pop-up event celebrating the release of Withered, the debut album from D4vd. Alvarez was a fan of the brooding, vulnerable bedroom pop that had turned the then-20-year-old, born David Anthony Burke, into a Gen Z sensation. The costume nodded to the cover of D4vd’s first EP, Petals to Thorns, and helped Alvarez win a $1,000 fan prize. Alvarez watched…
Weezer gathered a slew of guests stars for the raucous video for their new single “C.E.O.” The band, who will unveil their 20th studio LP Weezer on Aug. 21, enlisted Tony Hawk, Curry Barker, Dax Flame, Chit, Rob Riggle, Rob Huebel, Michael Peña, Giovanni Ribisi, and Christopher Mintz-Plasse. The meta clip pays homage to their classic 1994 video for “Undone (The Sweater Song).” Huebel and Riggle play a pair of stereotypical CEOs watching Weezer shoot a music video in front of a gold backdrop, instead of the original blue. Frontman Rivers Cuomo complains about being stuck in the past, telling…
Beyoncé has shared a remix pack to accompany her recent single “Morning Dew (Donk),” including one with a rare verse from Jay-Z. The chaotically high-octane new version of the track—which is set to appear on a 20th anniversary reissue of B’Day—samples a string of hits including Soulja Boy’s “Donk,” the Isley Brothers’ “Between the Sheets,” and interpolations of Sheck Wes’ “Mo Bamba.” Check it out below.The original “Morning Dew (Donk)” was co-written with Pharrell, The-Dream, and Darius Dixson, and produced by Pharrell and Bey. Completing the remix pack are an acoustic version (dubbed “4:44”—that’s its runtime—but not featuring Jay-Z), a…
