PJ Morton launches The Culture, a weekly, live-streamed trivia show quizzing artists, actors, and distinguished guests on their knowledge of black entertainment, art, and more. Morton will host the series on his YouTube channel, where viewers can comment and play along as he puts a trio of contestants to the test.
PJ Morton launches The Culture, a weekly, live-streamed trivia show quizzing artists, actors, and distinguished guests on their knowledge of black entertainment, art, and more. Morton will host the series on his YouTube channel, where viewers can comment and play along as he puts a trio of contestants to the test.
Mansur Brown announces the release of a three-track EP, entitled 'Tesuto.’ The EP which spans genres of R&B, hip hop, electronic and ambient will be released on Thursday, July 9 via Soulection Records, the independent label and creative hive for worldwide, experimental musicians that was started by the Los Angeles-based DJ collective Soulection.
With her new album, accomplished singer Nikki Yanofsky makes a bold creative shift: for the first time in the young artist’s already long and impressive career, Nikki leads by her own creative intuition, bucking expectations and painting a clear personal portrait of who she is today. Recorded at Warner-Chappell studios in NYC and produced and co-written by Zachary Seman and Roger Kleinman (Joey Bada$$, ASAP Rocky), the album also features the last two songs that decorated songwriter Rod Temperton (“Thriller”) ever penned.
That's How Rumors Get Started was produced by Sturgill Simpson, and co-produced by Margo Price and David Ferguson. The ten new, original songs were primarily recorded at EastWest Studios (Pet Sounds, "9 to 5"), during the week Margo received her Best New Artist GRAMMY nomination, in the middle of her pregnancy with daughter Ramona. The album is Margo Price's debut for Loma Vista Recordings.
The Midnight announce MONSTERS, their new album to be released July 10 on Counter Records. MONSTERS finds the duo of Tyler Lyle and Tim McEwan, who’ve gone from online cult fascination to the #1 spot of the Billboard Electronic Album Chart, creating a sweeping sound that fuses Americana archetypes with an evocative electronic palette referencing synth-driven film scores, deep house, pop, and rock. MONSTERS sees a continuation of The Midnight's immersive world-building that has attracted a rabid fanbase — a communal coalition of internet culture obsessives, bedroom producers, Tumblr goths, cosplayers, teenagers, their parents, and everyone in between — who have been pining for a new album for almost two years.
PJ Morton launches The Culture, a weekly, live-streamed trivia show quizzing artists, actors, and distinguished guests on their knowledge of black entertainment, art, and more. Morton will host the series on his YouTube channel, where viewers can comment and play along as he puts a trio of contestants to the test.
"A record I didn't want to write but needed to," says rapper/composer/producer Oddisee of his new EP Odd Cure (Outer Note Label). Surprise-released, the urgent album was created in just 8 weeks between March and May. The songs came quickly, written while Oddisee was in self-isolation for two weeks in his Bed-Stuy studio. He flew back to America just days before lockdown in NYC, from a performance in Thailand. To keep his family safe, he stayed away. The conversations he had while living in his studio - while inspecting a constant flow of news, social media, word of mouth, misinformation, conspiracy theories and statistics about the first weeks of the pandemic in America - are directly what led to the songs on Odd Cure.
Ugly is Beautiful was previously slated to come out in March, but Oliver paused its release due to the continued lockdown. Now he’s ready to share the music this Summer and save us from the boredom of CDC guidelines. Oliver already shared many tracks that will appear on the album, from the bummer anthem “Let Me Down,” the jaded “Cash Machine,” the tender (sounding at least) “Alien Boy” and the reflective “Hurt.” His songs mesh hip-hop beats with a deep love of punk-rock snarl and pretty melodies; he’s a Gen Z-er who deeply cares about the craft of a good song. His bowl cut is exceptional, and so are his surreal music videos and mockumentaries that consistently track millions of views.
PJ Morton launches The Culture, a weekly, live-streamed trivia show quizzing artists, actors, and distinguished guests on their knowledge of black entertainment, art, and more. Morton will host the series on his YouTube channel, where viewers can comment and play along as he puts a trio of contestants to the test.
Indie pop progenitors The Naked and Famous are set to triumphantly return in 2020 with the release of their much-anticipated new album Recover this July. Reformed as a duo (founding members Alisa Xayalith and Thom Powers), The Naked and Famous’ forthcoming LP reasserts the group as one of modern indie-pop’s most exciting sonic trailblazers, taking them to emotionally inspired depths, while maintaining the fresh effervescence that has led to over 600 million collective streams to date.
Big Wild announces Touch (Reworks), a new EP reworking and remixing singer-songwriter-producer Jackson Stell's unexpectedly timely single "Touch." The adventurous and multilingual five-track collection is out July 24th on Counter Records, with the new remix by Australian-based duo Hermitude out today, transforming "Touch" into an agile shuffle as the beat drops into finger snaps and sparse, soulful drums.
Nashville newcomer Zoë Nutt understands that time is precious. Although struggling with hearing loss from an early age, Zoë (now 27) wrote and recorded her new albumHow Does It Feel in the wake of a cochlear implant surgery intended to save her from complete and total deafness. Out July 24, the album rarely addresses her lifelong battle, but is blatantly informed by the maturity, self-awareness and artistic resilience as a result.
PJ Morton launches The Culture, a weekly, live-streamed trivia show quizzing artists, actors, and distinguished guests on their knowledge of black entertainment, art, and more. Morton will host the series on his YouTube channel, where viewers can comment and play along as he puts a trio of contestants to the test.
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