“Rush Hour (An Inadvertent Meditation for a Friend)” is a collaboration between Speed the Plough’s John and Toni Baumgartner featuring Beirut based vocalist Mayssa Jallad Continue Reading
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Songwriter Shelly Peiken Revisits "Bitch" for '2.0' Album (premiere)
Shelly Peiken is no stranger to a good song. She’s co-written two chart-toppers for Christina Aguilera (“What a Girl Wants”, “Come on Over Baby”) and Continue Reading
Ryan Hamilton & The Harlequin Ghosts Honor Their Favorite Songs With "Oh No" (premiere)
Ryan Hamilton & The Harlequin Ghosts latest single, “Oh, No” arrives on 14 August ahead of the band’s full-length release Nowhere to Go But Everywhere, Continue Reading
Rufus Wainwright Makes a Welcome Return to Pop with 'Unfollow the Rules'
We’ve all been there, haven’t we? You emerge sometime in the morning after, bleary-eyed, furry-tongued, and with an aching, but indistinct feeling that you did Continue Reading
The Band's Discontented Third LP, 1970's 'Stage Fright', Represented a World Braving Calamity
As with any new decade, 1970 ushered in both the promise of fresh prospects and the continuity of the same misfortunes. For roots rockers the Continue Reading
Rina Sawayama Reveals She Wrote a Song With RM of BTS
Fans of singer-songwriter Rina Sawayama have been long begging for a collab with Namjoon — famously known as RM — of BTS. In a video Continue Reading
Blackpink Announce Selena Gomez as Surprise Collaborator for Next Single
It's official! Selena Gomez is the featured guest singer on Blackpink's upcoming new single. The K-pop group, composed of Jisoo, Lisa, Jennie and Rosé, revealed Continue Reading
Kelly Clarkson Will Fill In for Simon Cowell on ‘AGT’
Kelly Clarkson will step in for Simon Cowell as a judge on America’s Got Talent as he recuperates from his recent back injury. The AGT Continue Reading
The Redemption of Elton John's 'Blue Moves'
“Blue Moves is an Elton John album. It is not his best.” Thus begins the latest book in Bloomsbury Academic’s 33 1/3 series, each volume Continue Reading
Jess Cornelius Creates Tautly Constructed Snapshots of Life
The titular distance chronicled on Jess Cornelius’ solo debut album can be measured in a plethora of ways: geographical as someone born and raised in Continue Reading
'Can You Spell Urusei Yatsura' Is a Much Needed Burst of Hopefulness in a Desultory Summer
The mid-to-late 1990s saw English guitar music surrender entirely to domesticity. For a remarkable spell, Britain had been an incubator of cutting edge outsiders who Continue Reading
The Erotic Disruption of the Self in Paul Schrader's 'The Comfort of Strangers'
People are strange. This is the lesson we learn from strangers. The English “strange” derives from the Old French estrange, which in turn derives from Continue Reading
Jamila Woods' "SULA (Paperback)" and Creative Ancestry and Self-Love in the Age of "List" Activism
“Down here in the bottom, there ain’t no room for me. I don’t wanna make no babies, I don’t need a man to save me,” Continue Reading
HBO's 'Lovecraft Country' Is Heady, Poetic, and Mangled
When Watchmen premiered last fall, its opening sequence set during the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 provided a harrowing entry point into the series’ tangled Continue Reading
Kathleen Edwards Finds 'Total Freedom'
There’s a strange beauty to Canadian singer-songwriter Kathleen Edwards’ latest album, Total Freedom. She wistfully looks back at the people she’s known and loved, the Continue Reading
A Fresh Look at Free Will and Determinism in Terry Gilliam's '12 Monkeys'
Auteur Publishing have followed up their Devil’s Advocates series of slim volumes on individual horror films with Constellations, an even slimmer set of volumes on Continue Reading
Stream Sunset Capone’s Passionate Fusion Of Rap & EDM On His New Release ‘Heart’
Sunset Capone shared with his rapidly growing audience a brand new single named ‘Heart.’ Known for his love for mixing genres, Sunset Capone created a Continue Reading
Machine Gun Kelly Unveils New Vampire Bite Tattoo on His Neck
Welcome to PopCrush's Daily Break! Here's a breakdown of today's hottest pop culture and lifestyle stories as heard on PopCrush Nights, airing across the country. Continue Reading
Eleanor Underhill Takes Us to the 'Land of the Living' (album stream)
Eleanor Underhill’s Land of the Living arrives on 7 August. The Asheville, North Carolina singer-songwriter has delivered an expansive, LP that touches on familiar elements Continue Reading
Monte Warden and the Dangerous Few Play It Cool
According to recent polls, Americans are having more sex in the daytime than ever before. The conventional wisdom says this is likely because people are Continue Reading