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Electronic experimentalist Yves Tumor offers a jarring examination of the police state in the new video for “Noid.” The track appears on Tumor’s acclaimed 2018 album, Safe In the Hands of Love. On “Noid,” Tumor’s lyrics grapple with police brutality, especially the effect it has on people who may not …

James Ingram, the multi-talented R&B artist who notched hits as both a singer and songwriter, died Tuesday, The New York Times reports. He was 66. Ingram’s friend and collaborator, Debbie Allen, confirmed the news on Twitter, writing, “I have lost my dearest friend and creative partner James Ingram to the …

Portishead singer Beth Gibbons’ concert with the Polish National Radio Symphony — a performance of Henryk Górecki’s Symphony No. 3— will be the focus of a live album due out in March. Domino will release both an audio and video recording of HenrykGórecki: Symphony No. 3 (Symphony of Sorrowful Songs), …

Bon Scott, the late AC/DC singer who fronted the band from 1974 to 1980, vents about financial struggles, hard drinking and the band’s grueling tour schedule in a handwritten August 1978 letter headed to auction. The note, addressed to Valerie Dalli, his girlfriend at the time, is set to start …

Hip-hop duo 88Glam and fellow Toronto native Nav unveiled a gloomy new video for their recent collaboration, “It’s a Flex.” 88Glam’s 88 Camino said the Dan Le-Moyne-directed clip is centered around “fashion, decadence and dissipation.” In the video, Camino, Derek Wise and Nav perform the gauzy, boast-filled cut in a …

Kanye West became hip-hop establishment because he was never willing to conform to other artists’ styles. But in the last few months, the 41-year-old visionary reversed course, skewing his own sound by ingratiating himself to the SoundCloud generation. In some cases, it’s been commercially successful (albeit creatively bankrupt) like“I Love …

When it first appeared on Radiohead‘s 2011 album The King of Limbs, “Bloom” was an expansive wash of interlocking guitar parts, polysyllabic percussion and more than one flugelhorn. In concert, it’s remained one of the band’s most complex live songs, with up to three drummers working at a time on …

The same week Chicago rapper CupkKake was hospitalized following a suicidal tweet, she released a new song, “Squidward Nose.” It’s her first track since releasing the album Eden last fall. On “Squidward Nose,” CupcakKe raps about a man whose “dick’s smaller than [her] toes.” Instead, she chooses the Spongebob Squarepants character Squidward’s nose to ride instead. …

Filmmaker Jim Jarmusch and experimental lute player Jozef Van Wissem will release their fourth collaborative LP, An Attempt to Draw Aside the Veil, on February 8th via Sacred Bones Records. The duo teased the record with the shadowy track “Concerning the White Horse,” which unfurls metallic drones and throbbing toms …

When the biggest sporting event in the United States touches down in Atlanta this February, Rolling Stone will host one of the most highly anticipated and entertaining parties of the year, presented by Mercedes-Benz. LDV Hospitality is an official partner of the event. On Saturday, February 2nd, Rolling Stone will …