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Waxahatchee: Saint Cloud
With Katie Crutchfield’s fifth solo album comes the spring, its essence bottled so powerfully you could name a perfume after it: Saint Cloud, by Waxahatchee. Its sensory trigger has the power to replace the memory of whatever you call this atrophic season happening around us. Instead, Saint Cloud is all lilacs and creek beds, Memphis skylines and Manhattan subways, love and sobriety, the sound of a cherished songwriter thawing out under the sun. This transformative effect was absent on Crutchfield’s previous solo work. Don’t take that as a knock on her intimate, lo-fi 2012 debut American Weekend or 2013’s remarkable follow-up Cerulean Salt, whose songs of love and harm still land like a hundred little knicks to the flesh. Even as Crutchfield revved up the sound and the stakes on 2017’s sea...
The LOX “Loyalty and Love,” YG “Laugh Now Kry Later!” & More | Daily Visuals 5.4.20
It’s been a hella hot minute since we’ve gotten some new work from Yonkers finest, The LOX, but the We Are The Streets rap trio has finally reunited for their day ones who appreciate what they bring to the game. Going with some black-and-white cinematography for their visuals to “Loyalty and Love,” Styles P, Jadakiss and Sheek Louch take it back to their stomping grounds to showcase the struggle that shaped them into the successful men they are today. We love this right here. From the East to the West, YG takes his Lambo for a ride on the coast line and throws up his set for his clip to “Laugh Now Kry Later!” Check out the rest of today’s drops and some joints you might’ve missed over the weekend including work from BBE AJ featuring Boosie Badazz, G Herbo, and more. THE LOX – “LOYALTY AND ...
The Samsung Galaxy A51 Smartphone Unlocked Is Now Available
Source: Samsung / Samsung Galaxy A51 Unlocked Samsung dropped its budget smartphone, the Galaxy S10 Lite back in April. Now the tech giant is dropping another great affordable device the Galaxy A51 unlocked. The Galaxy A51 Unlocked now available via either Samsung’s website or Amazon and offers users the flexibility to pick or choose the plan and carrier that suits them best. Starting at $229.99, the Galaxy A51 is very affordable while featuring Samsung’s latest premium smartphone features. The Galaxy A51 has an edge-to-edge, 6.5″ Full HD+ Super AMOLED Infinity-O Display that promises to deliver an immersive uninterrupted viewing experience whether your gaming or watching movies. Source: Samsung / Samsung Galaxy A51 Unlocked The Galaxy A51 sports a quad-camera system consisting of a 48MP m...
Minimal Bars Icon French Montana Claims His Music Can Beat Anyone, Except Drake & Jay-Z
Source: John Parra / Getty You can’t say French Montana is anything but confident. The Bronx rapper was up to his trolling ways, saying he could beat any rapper in a head to head battle of hits, besides a couple of exceptions. The background here is that the “Unforgettable” rapper was recently thoroughly clowned for his claims that he has more hits than that Compton rapper Kendrick Lamar. So it comes as no surprise that during a recent interview with DJ E Rock on 92.3’s The Bassment, French continued with the “How much coke are you sniffing?” type claims. This time, French said he could compete with anybody—except for Drake and Jay-Z. Well, it’s good to know there are limits to his hyperbole. And he did drop a jewel when he said, “I just want all the underdogs out there, and...
Family Dollar Security Guard Shot Dead After Telling Woman To Wear Mask
Source: kali9 / Getty A security guard working at a Family Dollar store in Flint, Mich. was shot dead after confronting a woman for not wearing a mask inside the establishment. The woman returned with her husband and son, who murdered the man in cold blood and now are on the run. In one of the more tragic instances of heightened tensions due to the coronavirus pandemic, most especially in the Wolverine State, local outlet WXYZ reports that 43-year-old security guard Calvin James Munerlyn was working at the Family Dollar store last Friday (May 1) and told Sharmel Teague she needed a mask to enter. Teague reportedly became upset with Munerlyn and began yelling at him and spat on him according to the reports. Teague returned to the store with husband Larry Teague and her son, Ramonyea Bishop....
Migos Celebrate “Taco Tuesday” on New Track: Stream
Cinco de Mayo falls on a Tuesday this year, and I didn’t even realize it until Migos dropped their new song. The auspiciously timed track is called “Taco Tuesday”, and you can stream it below. As far as the song itself goes, “Taco Tuesday” is a pretty basic cut that barely goes over a minute and a half. The Migos trio, represented by different colored hot sauces in the corresponding lyrics video, trade verses in which they drop a bunch of Mexican food puns while making standard boasts about cash and girls. The whole affair opens with a sample of LeBron James screaming for his favorite weekly meal. Listen to “Taco Tuesday” via its lyric video below, and perhaps get ready for more Migos in the near future. Last month, Quavo teased the possibility of a “Quarantine Mixtape” to keep fans satiat...
The Weeknd Guests on American Dad, Performs New Song “I’m a Virgin”: Watch
Throughout his entire discography, The Weeknd dishes on his salacious, sex-fueled nights and his luxe life of fancy cars and mansions. For his latest project, however, the Canadian R&B singer is looking to change that narrative, if for just 30 minutes. Abel Tesfaye co-wrote and starred in the newest episode of Seth MacFarlane’s American Dad. Titled “A Starboy is Born” (referencing his Starboy album from 2016), it sees the artist show his true colors — and it’s a stark contrast from the rich playboy we’ve all come to know. Kidnapped by Roger the Alien, The Weeknd settles into the Smith family household surprisingly quickly, reveling in homemade lasagna, mundane house chores, and suburban pleasantries. “I miss being around boring people like this family,” he says at the dinner table. The...
Psycho Las Vegas Festival Won’t Take Place in 2020 Due to COVID-19 Pandemic
The Psycho Las Vegas festival will no longer take place in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic. Instead, organizers hope to have most of the scheduled acts return for the 2021 edition of the multi-day event at the Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino. This year’s edition, slated for August 13th-16th, was set to feature Danzig, Mercyful Fate, Emperor, The Flaming Lips, Blue Öyster Cult, Down, Mayhem, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, and many more acts. According to a statement from organizers, “nearly all bands have signed on for the new dates but we are awaiting confirmation from one final artist before presenting our updated lineup.” Those new dates, which include the Psycho Swim pre-party, run August 19th-22th, 2021. Technically, the event is being rescheduled, which means ticket holders can us...
Wire Change Share New Single “The Art of Persistence”: Stream
Wire were all set to drop their 18th studio album 10:20 on Record Store Day. But with that particular holiday delayed and practicing social distancing, the post-punk rockers have now announced that 10:20 will instead be available on all platforms on June 19th. To tide fans over until then, Wire has shared the nearly new song “The Art of Persistence”. Like most of the “strays” being collected on 10:20, “The Art of Persistence” has been around in one form or another for a number of years. It first popped up when the band reconvened in 2000, and made appearances on The Third Day EP (labelled as a “First Draft”) and then as a live performance on Recycling Sherwood Forest as part of Wire’s Legal Bootleg series. Musically, “The Art of Persistence” is a thr...
Yves Tumor: Heaven to a Tortured Mind
Yves Tumor plays a sex god on their latest album, a carnal rock record called Heaven to a Tortured Mind. If you were only familiar with the experimental ambient and noise Tumor was making just four years ago, this might sound unlikely. But transformations and roleplaying are key to understanding why Tumor is among the most interesting artists working today. Genre-bending is an inadequate rubric for describing what makes Tumor’s sound so enticing; with each new record, they seem to embody a genre—its history, its texture, its tropes. The mutations and evolutions across their work are something closer to method acting. Every gesture or affect on display across Tumor’s previous albums represents an engrossing performance of whatever genre they’re studying at the moment. When Tumor became a da...
Fiona Apple: Fetch the Bolt Cutters
It happens to most of us at an early age: the realization that life will not follow a straight line on the path towards fulfillment. Instead, life spirals. The game is rigged, power corrupts, and society is, in a word, bullshit. Art can expose the lies. The early music of Fiona Apple was so much about grand betrayals by inadequate men and the patriarchal world. Did it teach you to hate yourself? Did it teach you to bury your pain, to let it calcify, to build a gate around your heart that quiets the reaches of your one and only voice? Fetch the bolt cutters. Fiona Apple’s fifth record is unbound. No music has ever sounded quite like it. Apple recorded Fetch the Bolt Cutters both in and with her Venice Beach home, banging on its walls, stomping on its ground. Self-reliance is its rule, curio...
KeiyaA: Forever, Ya Girl
Ever since an artist once known as Lonny Breaux decided to defy his label Def Jam and deliver his debut, Nostalgia, Ultra, straight to the internet, the textures of popular R&B have become increasingly homegrown. Whether it’s the lithe heartbreak workout of LE1F affiliate Rahel’s 2015 album Alkali or the collaborations of singer Alexandria and producer Ethereal, there’s been a bounty of music for those who crave soulful vocals over beats from somewhere underground. On her debut album Forever, Ya Girl, the Chicago-bred, New York-based singer/producer/multi-instrumentalist KeiyaA merges Earl Sweatshirt-ish grime and the grit of deconstructed club with hints of psych and funk. It’s easier to find a singular sound when you’re working on your own, which KeiyaA did almost entirely—she poses ...
