Azealia Banks Announces Tour

Image via Instagram Azealia Banks has announced a brief tour in support of her recent album Broke With Expensive Taste. Beginning with a stint at Coachella, she’ll soon make stops in Boston, New York and Chicago. Find a full list of dates below. Read our Update with Azealia Banks. Azealia Banks: 04/10, 4/17 Indio, CA – Coachella Festival04/16 Los Angeles, CA – Club Nokia 05/11 New York, NY – Irving Plaza 05/15 Chicago, IL – Concord Music Hall05/19 Boston, MA – Paradise Club Watch the video for...

Sonic Youth Announce Bad Moon Rising Rei...

Last year, Sonic Youth - who are currently on indefinite hiatus – announced a refurbishment of their pre-Geffen, out-of-print catalog. They re-released their seminal album Daydream Nation (yes, again) on 2xLP and CD, followed shortly thereafter by The Whitey Album, their one-off as Ciccone Youth. Now, the band have tapped 1985′s Bad Moon Rising for a similar treatment. It’s out on April 14 via the band’s own label on 2xLP and CD. In addition to the album and its bonus tracks, the repackaged Bad Moon Rising features the bonus tracks “Satan Is...

Arcade Fire’s Will Butler Shares S...

Every day this week, Arcade Fire‘s Will Butler has written a new song based on a news story in The Guardian. Now, he’s shared “By the Waters of Babylon”, a song about ISIS destroying the museum in Mosul. You can listen to it above. “By the Waters of Babylon” is the last of Butler’s Guardian-inspired songs. On Monday, he released “Clean Monday”, a song about the Greek debt crisis, followed by “Waving Flag”, inspired by articles about anti-apartheid figure...

Kanye West Performs "Only One"...

Kanye West is currently in London, where he’s talked to Zane Lowe and premiered a new song at the BRIT Awards. He also shot a performance of “Only One” for the Norwegian-Swedish talk show “Skavlan”, which features a spare setup not too unlike his staging at the Grammys. Watch the performance below, via Consequence of...

Kanye West’s "Never Let Me Do...

Photo by Erez Avissar As others like Grizzly Bear, Rick Rubin, and novelist Michael Chabon have recently done, Michael Bolton has taken to the annotation site Genius to add his thoughts, as XXL points out. Bolton marked up Kanye West‘s “Never Let Me Down”, a The College Dropout cut that samples Blackjack’s “Maybe It’s the Power of Love”, which Bolton sings lead on. Read his annotation below: When Kanye and Jay-Z’s publishing reps reached out to me about clearing this sample, I was surprised and flattered I wrote this song in the...