Music

Future‘s accompaniment to Director X’s remake of Superfly (which the Atlanta MC co-produced) isn’t as concise a statement on post-millennial criminality as Kendrick Lamar’s Black Panther project was on universal blackness and African identity, and it certainly can’t live up to Curtis Mayfield’s epochal soundtrack to the 1972 original. But …

“The part about the writing that was different than any other album was there was no guarantee that I was going to live long enough to record the album,” Yob leader Mike Scheidt told Rolling Stone, “or maybe even long enough for my bandmates to hear it.” Few genres spend …

Goldfrapp recruited Depeche Mode‘s Dave Gahan for their dramatic“Ocean” video. Singer Alison Goldfrapp directed the clip, which cuts between her own veiled visage and meditative shots of Gahan crooning against a white background. Slow-motion scenes of horses appear throughout as the musicians warn in unison, “Every time I think of …

UPDATE: Fleetwood Mac has joined the lineup for the upcomingiHeartRadio Music Festival. *** Justin Timberlake, Jack White, Carrie Underwood and Mariah Carey are among the artists that will perform at this year’s star-studded iHeartRadio Music Festival, which invades Las Vegas on September 21st and 22nd. Sam Smith, Imagine Dragons, Shawn …

Gorillaz take over Venice Beach with Jack Black in the video for “Humility,” one of two new offerings from the animated outfit’s upcoming albumThe Now Now, out June 29th via Warner Bros. Gorillaz co-founder Jamie Hewlett directed the “Humility” clip, which finds animated singer 2D roller skating around Venice. Black …

Sleep, The Sciences | ★★★★At the Gates, To Drink From the Night Itself | ★★★ 1/2Burn the Priest,Legion: XX | ★★★Five Finger Death Punch |And Justice for None ★★ In the late Seventies, heavy metal transcended musical genres and became a culture. Metalheads grew their hair as long as they …

Johnny Marr will embark on a lengthy North American tour this fall in support of his new album, Call the Comet, out June 15th. The trek kicks off September 15th at the Cannery Ballroom in Nashville, Tennessee and includes stops in Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Mexico City, …

Linkin Park‘s Mike Shinoda grapples dark memories in his gritty new song, “Running From My Shadow,” featuring Grandson. The track will appear on Shinoda’s upcoming solo debut, Post Traumatic, out June 15th. “Running From My Shadow” recalls Linkin Park at their most anthemic with its mix of atmospheric hip-hop and …

ALBUM OF THE WEEK:Courtney Barnett, Tell Me How You Really FeelThe Melbourne axe-slinger’s second album “is noisy and way more pissed off than her 2015 debut, Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit, unsheathing sharp new earnestness alongside her trademark sabers of sarcasm and penetrating observation,” writes …

Whitney Houston was allegedly molested as a child by her cousin Dee Dee Warwick, according to the new documentary Whitney, which premiered at Cannes Thursday. Per the Chicago Sun-Times, the claims were made by Houston’s longtime assistant Mary Jones and Houston’s brother Gary Garland-Houston. Jones said Whitney told her that …