I like DNCE’s “Toothbrush” despite myself and its cheesy lyrics, mostly because it sounds like Phoenix (the band) by way of an Orange Julius, and also because invocations of wearing a dude’s t-shirt in the morning always spur a touch of romantic sentimentality. In the new video, plus size model and general goddess…
Legendary punk rocker Alice Bag has been carrying the torch for sharp feminist outspokenness since she helped pioneer the L.A. punk scene in the 1970s, so it’s hard to believe she’s just now releasing her first solo album. As an author, educator, lifelong badass and the leader of The Bags, among many other bands,…
Grimes has just released the music video for “California,” the third track from Art Angels to be set to visuals after the dual video “Flesh Without Blood/Life in the Vivid Dream” and “Kill V. Maim.” Directed by Grimes and her brother Mac Boucher, the video draws on the same tensions as the song itself: whimsy and…
Hole frontwoman Courtney Love has toyed with us before. In 2014 she publicly stated that she, Melissa Auf Der Maur, Patty Schemel, and Eric Erlandson—the band’s mid-90s lineup—had regathered and was producing new material. Then, that summer, she disavowed any possibility of an official reunion. Now, in the year of our…
Since the inception of grime—the hard-edged, futuristic British genre of rap music cultivated in East London in the early 2000s—its central nervous system has operated concurrently with the way teens use technology. Dizzee Rascal, for instance, began recording at the age of 16, making music on Logic in a studio after…
Festival wristbands are those circular rubbery bands designed to be worn around the wrist during a festival to get entry and for things like access to restricted areas. Don’t wear them before the festival starts. Trust us!
There’s something really nice about getting an unmitigated, uplifting, bold reminder to feel good, and that’s exactly what Laura Mvula’s new video does. A salve against the bullshit (whatever you wanna define “bullshit” as), “Phenomenal Woman” was shot in the Bo-Kaap section of Cape Town, and features Mvula being just…
Following his wife’s dazzling new visual album which seems to document his infidelity, Jay Z is reportedly working on an album to tell his side of things. This, if true, is a very poor idea.
Radiohead seems all of a sudden to have taken Kid A’s “How to Disappear Completely” to heart. Beginning on the morning of May 1, their social media presence began to recede, rendering their website a blank page and their Twitter and Facebook accounts stark.
I’ve seen a massive crowd line up around the block to watch an internet-fueled hologram of an anime girl sing. I’ve seen a packed auditorium erupt into a wild cheer for a text-to-speech voice that said: “Hello Seattle.” I’ve seen our present day, in all its bracing cyberpunk wonder, at Hatsune Miku’s live concert at…
Very Specific Playlists is a weekly feature in which Jezebel staffers make very specific Spotify playlists based on their weird proclivities.
After a somewhat harrowing promise that Views would debut on Beats 1 Radio at 10 PM, a delay, and its actual appearance on Apple Music an hour later while OVO Radio was playing Rae Sremmurd’s “Look Alive,” we have so much to talk about. While it’s not exactly the frenzy that Lemonade conjured—it’s 20 songs long, my…
Charli XCX’s “Vroom Vroom” is a typically delectable pop number, and as always the video delivers. Decked out in a latex bodysuit that resembles a high gloss paint job on a sports car, she sings and semi-raps about how no one can touch her in this pop world—cause baby, she’s much too fast.
Among the qualities about Prince that made him such a strange irreplaceable genius, there was the simple way that he moved. How he walked, sometimes floated, into a room. Often, it was more of a lean than a walk, something much more distinguishable. What most called a strut.
The Beyoncé extravaganza on Saturday—whatever it is!—will be free for all. No need to perform an extremely shameful favor for some free HBO or mooch off a friend’s subscription.
Very Specific Playlists is a weekly feature in which Jezebel staffers make very specific Spotify playlists based on their weird proclivities.
In an interview with Rolling Stone published this week, Grimes says she’s unsurprised about the Dr. Luke fiasco, as she’s personally experienced multiple cases of men trying to blackmail their way into sex.
