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It’s officially the last week of The Late Show. For one of his final episodes, Stephen Colbert paid tribute to some of the worst ideas the late-night show has had, including dressing Michael Keaton up as a pigeon. Monday night’s show opened with a bit featuring Keaton, who appeared outside Colbert’s office window as a literal bird man. In the clip, Colbert was struggling to come up with a show idea featuring the actor when he spotted pigeon Keaton tapping on the glass and strutting outside. “That pigeon looks just like Michael Keaton,” he mused. It turned out to be…
Genesis Owusu is an alt-rap MC with a prog-rock mind, fond of exploring the human condition in fabulist form. On his 2021 debut, Smiling With No Teeth, the Ghanaian Australian dynamo depicted the twin burdens of depression and racism as two black dogs gnawing at his conscience; for the 2023 follow-up, Struggler, he inhabited a character named The Roach, an unsubtle avatar for the underclass rising up against an omnipotent adversary dubbed God, who, in this case, was less a religious deity than a shadowy stand-in for capitalism and authoritarianism.But despite his affinity for elaborate world-building and comic-book characterization, Owusu…
vote7.5 Bands: HOLD MY OWN Duration: 00:21:13 Available from: 04/17/2026 Label: Daze Style The hardcore community very often sees the birth and death of multiple projects created by the interchange of musicians within the scene, especially within the same geographical area.The frequenting of the same environments, the support of the groups and the infinite line-ups of every single concert only help the conception of new projects, more or less serious: some don't even make it to the recording studio, others develop quite quickly.The latter is the case of Hold My Own, who were born in 2021 as a bridge between…
About 15 years ago, Kwesi Darko, under his Blue Daisy alias, was hailed as the next Tricky or Burial or Flying Lotus or Massive Attack, depending on who you asked. His debut album, The Sunday Gift, offered all the playful energy associated with the experimental L.A. beat scene of the time, but rubbed with a distinctly London grit, Technicolor synths strobing across dark corners. He was tipped by tastemakers from Mojo to Mary Anne Hobbs and sent touring around the world—at which point Darko decided he’d had enough of other people’s expectations. Stubborn, mercurial, and determined to do things his…
In her 2022 song “Sioux Falls,” Jesca Hoop looks out an airplane window and sees a whirling vortex the size of a stadium. Is it a body of water? A crop circle? No—as the plane descends, the scene comes into focus: thousands of men, women, and children, spinning “like thread around a spool,” terror on their faces, trampling those who lose their footing. The uncanny vision is made even eerier when Hoop spots her late mother dragging her five children through the human tide. Despite the grimness of the scene, the tone of the song is peppy and disorientingly pretty,…
The Jamaican patois is back on the Popcaan dancehall cut “Amazing Shape,” and while they’ve made better songs together before, the groove is smooth and he’s got just the right amount of dick puns: “You could make a dead man rise,” Drake sings, a little flat but still catchy. He found a new muse via his TikTok For You Page in viral rapper Stunna Sandy, who I never thought of as anything more than an Ice Spice variant, until “Outside Tweaking,” where she sounds like a star flirting with Drake over the lush Jersey club breakdown like he’s the middle-aged…
When Drake surprise-dropped three albums last week, his friend and frequent producer Gordo was as surprised as everyone else — even though he'd been working on the music for the last year and a half. “I knew it was going to be two albums,” he tells Rolling Stone on a recent call. “I didn't know it was going to be three.” But Drake kept his entire rollout a secret, even from his closest collaborators. That meant that on May 15, when the album trilogy swept the internet, Gordo did what most fans did: He spent time listening through the three…
The rocker tells it: 500 thousand people: “It will be different from Modena Park” Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM
Mystery Jets have announced their new album ‘A Hole To See The Sky Through’ with its hazy title track – check it out below. Read More: Five things we learned from our In Conversation chat with Mystery Jets’ Blaine Harrison The band last released a studio album in 2020 in the form of ‘A Billion Heartbeats’, but appeared to tease a new era last week with the release of new single ‘Black Sage’. Now, they’ve shared news of their seventh studio album, with ‘A Hole To See The Sky Through’ set to arrive on August 21 via Fiction Records – you can…
Ike Willis, the singer and guitarist who spent a decade with Frank Zappa and starred on his three-disc rock opera Joe's Garagedied on Saturday, May 16, his family confirmed to Rolling Stone. He was 70. A cause of death was not immediately available. In a 2022 JamBase interview, Willis revealed that he'd been diagnosed with prostate cancer. In a statement, Willis' family said they were “deeply heartbroken” to share the news of Willis' death. He died in North Las Vegas “among loved ones.” The statement continued: “Ike was not only a great father, but a musician whose unmistakable voice, humor,…
