new music
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Despite a decade and a half having elapsed, At the Drive-In picks up where its flagship album Relationship of Command left off without skipping much of a beat.
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A cut from Ab-Soul‘s newly released LP Do What Thou Wilt. Joined by Mac Miller on the hook and bridge, Soulo professes his love for many people and things, including – you guessed it – drugs. Of course, he does come across as conscious about substance dependence along the way.
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The penultimate entry in this year’s Adult Swim Singles Program comes courtesy of Krallice, the most progressive force in American black metal. The track will also appear on the band’s new album Prelapsarian, which drops on winter solstice (December 21) and follows up this past New Year’s
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Xiu Xiu teases its forthcoming album FORGET with “Wondering,” one of the most danceable songs the outfit has written to date. The full thing drops February 24 via Polyvinyl.
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The kick-ass lead single from Nightmare Logic, the sophomore album by TX crossover thrash band Power Trip, out February 24 via Southern Lord.
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Clarence Clarity follows up last month’s single-EP-thing SAME with an experimental love song accompanied by a fittingly apathetic video.
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Nails and Full of Hell team up for a few complementary tracks that amount to five minutes of unrelenting grind – don’t expect anything less from either band at this point. The physical release is available for preorder via Closed Casket Activities.
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This opening track from Childish Gambino‘s new album Awaken, My Love! announces a powerful change of pace – Donald turns in a killer vocal performance as he ventures into the world of psychedelic soul. Glad to say I’m finally hyped for a Childish Gambino project! The full thing drops
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Off We Got It from Here… Thank You 4 Your Service, the final album by veteran hip hop group A Tribe Called Quest, out now via Epic. Definitely check out their performance of the track on last night’s episode of Saturday Night Live if you’ve yet to:
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Metallica‘s latest music video achieves a charming “chill dads at Guitar Center” vibe, but accompanies a song that’s about as badass as anything the band’s written up to this point. The track’s from their 10th album Hardwired… To Self-Destruct, out November 18 via Blackened.
