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San Francisco’s Portola has unveiled its 2025 lineup led by LCD Soundsystem, The Chemical Brothers, Underworld, The Prodigy, Moby (performing his album Play in full), Christina Aguilera, Peggy Gou, and Dom Dolla.

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Organized by Goldenvoice, the San Francisco-based dance and electronic festival returns to Pier 80 on Saturday, September 20th and Sunday, September 21st. Other notable acts featured on the 2025 lineup include Anti Up (Chris Lake & Chris Lorenzo), Dev Hynes’ Blood Orange, Mau P, The Rapture, Arca, Caribou, Duke Dumont, 2manydjs b2b Erol Alkan, The Blessed Madonna b2b Tiga, Magdalena Bay, Rico Nasty, The Dare, Brutalismus 3000, Bob Moses, Kelly Lee Owens, Boy Harsher, Kreayshawn, and Ravyn Lenae, among others. Plus, Despacio, the high-powered sound system and immersive audio experience designed by LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy and David and Stephen Dewaele of 2ManyDJs, will be on site at Portola for its San Francisco debut.

BBC Sets Cast For ‘Two Weeks In August’ Disaster Drama

Casting has been set for BBC disaster drama Two Weeks in August. Jessica Raine stars as Zoe, Damien Molony is her troubled husband Dan and the cast also features Nicholas Pinnock as their old friend Solomon and Antonia Thomas as his new wife Jess, alongside Leila Farzad and Hugh Skinner as uni friends Nat and Jacob. Revealed by Deadline in February, the show comes from Shrink Next Door scribe Catherine Shepherd and I May Destroy You producer Various Artists. Set in Greece, it tells the story of a woman who goes on holiday with her family and friends to rediscover joy in her life. But, here in paradise, what starts with...

Coronation Street spoilers and updates for the week of March 25 tease gunshot drama, pregnancy emergencies, someone’s caught and more!

Rob Donovan (Marc Baylis) causes gunshot drama, Dee-Dee Bailey (Channique Sterling-Brown) has a pregnancy emergency, Dylan Wilson (Liam McCheyne) is caught, and more!

Rob’s Gunshot Drama

At Rob’s request, Tracy Barlow (Kate Ford) reaches out to his sister Carla Connor (Alison King) with a fabricated business offer, urging her to come to No.1 immediately.

Carla is taken aback to discover Rob at the Barlow residence, visibly in distress and holding a gun. Is Rob planning to take Tracy with him as he flees, or is he seeking revenge against Carla?

Meanwhile, Lisa Swain (Vicky Myers) is appalled by the hostage crisis unfolding, but will she risk her own safety to rescue Carla and bring Rob to justice?

Or has she arrived too late as a gunshot rings out; in the hospital waiting area,...

Coronation Street spoilers for the week of March 17 tease six scandalous spoilers! Rob Donovan’s (Marc Baylis) proposition, Debbie Webster’s (Sue Devaney) worrying symptoms, Dee-Dee Bailey’s (Channique Sterling-Brown) shocking offer and more.

Betsy’s Afraid As Rob Is Still Free

Next week, Tracy Barlow (Kate Ford) will come face-to-face with her ex-fiancé Rob, who is a killer-will she fall for him again?

Lisa Swain (Vicky Myers) informs Carla Connor (Alison King) that Betsy Swain (Sydney Martin) is too frightened to go outside while Rob is still free. In response, Carla offers to take a day off to care for Betsy.

However, a situation at Underworld forces Carla to leave, leaving Betsy alone and scared when the doorbell rings. Later, Carla sees Rob’s prison guard girlfriend, Mandy Waring (Rebecca Atkinson), at the hospital and contacts Lisa, asking Roy Cropper (David Neilson) to keep an eye on Mandy.

Rob...

The music community is truly coming together for those affected by the Los Angeles fires. On Monday, Give a Fuck LA announced a star-studded lineup for “Benefit and Auction for LA Wildfire Relief” on Feb. 5, featuring performances by Hayley Williams, Lucy Dacus, Muna, and Finneas.

The Hollywood Palladium show is also set to feature appearances from Jenny Lewis, Christopher Owens, Fred Armisen, Courtney Barnett, St. Vincent, Kevin Morby, Reggie Watts, and Scout Willis. Symone, the Linda Lindas, and Rostam and Sasami are also featured on the lineup for the show,...

We're at the end of 2024, and you know what that means. It's time to look back at what all happened this year. We'll start off by saying that it's been a rollercoaster of a year for many of the streaming services, especially Netflix. While there were many renewals from the streamer, there were also some cancellations.

This year, the streaming powerhouse pulled the plug on 17 of its original series, and there's even a chance there will be more cancellations since 2024 isn't quite over yet. Obviously, a show getting canceled is never a good thing, and it sucks for the people who were hoping for additional installments. However, there's one Netflix show that got the boot this year that we're not exactly sad about.

In this article, we shared all the Netflix show cancellations from this year as well as discussed why we weren't necessarily hurt by one of the shows being axed.

With presidential candidate Kamala Harris and even some tone-deaf Republicans co-opting the Brat aesthetic and lingo on social media, it seemed like Charli Xcx’s cultural currency had reached critical mass. Pitchfork, Dazed, and others were quick to prematurely declare “Brat Summer” over. To which the singer promptly clapped back, “oh ? see u next week :)”

The latest Brat brand extension is a new remix of “Guess,” featuring Billie Eilish. A standout track from the album’s cheekily titled deluxe edition, Brat and it’s the same but there’s three more songs so it’s not, the frenetic hyperpop song (co-written by Charli and 100 gecs’s Dylan Brady) echoes Eilish’s own tongue-in-cheek ode to oral sex, “Lunch.” “You wanna guess the color of my underwear/You wanna know what I got going on down there,” Charli teases before Eilish gets in on the not-so-subtle innuendo: “Charli likes boys,...

"You need to carry on and finish it." Kino Lorber has revealed an official trailer for an indie LGBTQ drama titled Sebastian, made by a Finnish-British filmmaker named Mikko Mäkelä. This originally premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, and it also played at the Provincetown & Frameline Film Festivals. Sebastian follows a burgeoning young journalist who turns to sex work to research his first novel. But where will this lead him? What will he discover? Another intimate, hypnotic exploration of repressed sexuality through cinema. Posing tantalizing questions about the creative process and the recurring cultural conversations about authenticity in art and who can / should tell certain stories, the film stars Ruaridh Mollica as Max, aka Sebastian, whose "fearless lead performance should elevate him to rising star status", and who has already been cast based on his work here in the upcoming HBO series from Armando Iannucci called "The Franchise...

Good news for all of the brats out there: Charli Xcx has already dropped a deluxe version of her new album Brat. Dubbed Brat and it’s the same but there’s three more songs so it’s not, the new tracklist boasts (as you might have guessed) three new tunes from the pop star.

The three new songs of Brat and it’s the same but there’s three more songs so it’s not follow the 15 initial tracks of Brat and are titled “Hello goodbye,” “Guess,” and “Spring breakers.” Each picks right up where Brat left off, embodying Charli Xcx’s idiosyncratic approach to pop music. Notably, “Hello goodbye” sees the artist once again linking up with A. G. Cook, while “Guess” features writing credits from the likes of Dylan Brady (of 100 Gecs) and Harrison Patrick Smith (of The Dare). Stream them all below.

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Everything Now will not return for a second season. Netflix has cancelled the British teen comedy-drama series, according to an interview with Dylan Brady on Film Update. The actor (Mary & George), Coronation Street) was involved in the writing of the series and authored the sixth episode.

The Everything Now series, which stars Sophie Wilde, Lauryn Ajufo, Harry Cadby, Noah Thomas, Stephen Fry, Niamh McCormack, Sam Reuben, Vivienne Acheampong, and Alex Hassell, launched in October 2023.

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Skrillex has reunited with Boys Noize for a new single, “Fine Day Anthem.” The pair recently previewed the track during a show in Berlin and it marks their first collaboration since their dual 2019 EP Turn Off The Lights.

The cover art for the single, created by digital artist Thomas Harrington Rawle using both studio photography and manual digital painting, is intended to evoke ’90’s rave photos. On Twitter, Skrillex noted that the duo have included snippets from single in their DJ sets for the past year.

“Fine Day Anthem” follows...

Postmodern attempts at genre defiance have become de rigueur for pop artists today. In a streaming-dominated world where we can type away on our laptops to ambient hip-hop in the morning, sing along to old yacht-rock hits on our afternoon commute, and dance to Edm at night, what other way is there to keep our attention than to try to give us everything everywhere all at once? We’ve gotten a few attempts to do just that so far in 2023, from Kara Jackson’s quietly rebellious blending of folk and R&b, to Yves Tumor’s kitchen-sink instrumentation, to 100 gecs’s audacious and absurd hyperpop assaults.

Many of the artists who appear on this list, though, no longer seem content to just break down old barriers, as they also seek to shatter interpersonal and emotional ones as well. The oft-cited isolation of modern living, heavily exacerbated by the pandemic, has...

Skrillex takes TikTok’s “Point of View” trend to a new level in the music video for his Fred Again.. and Flowdan collaboration “Rumble.” The three musicians are smaller parts of a bigger machine as the video pulls together footage of the audience at their third surprise pop-up concert with FourTet at London’s The Troxy in January.

Directed by Manu Cossu, some of the ravers captured in “Rumble” work the camera, flashing intense gazes into the lens. But most of the stars of the video couldn’t care less...

It’s not every day that an album receives polar-opposite reviews. Divisiveness to that extent – the sort that has one critic heralding the record as a glimmering bravura of 21st-century pop music, another comparing it to a bazooka firing out the world’s worst genres at your face – is almost unheard of these days. It’s really quite the feat for 100 gecs. But the duo – Laura Les, 28, and Dylan Brady, 29 – loathe reading reviews. “I hate it,” says Les in her chronic deadpan. “But it’s nice when they’re nice.”

And they are. Reviews of their second album – bar that bazooka comparison – have been very nice, if a little surprised by 10,000 gecs. With 2019’s 1000 gecs, Les and Brady did not so much burst onto the scene as explode. Their debut is a flash-bang of high-energy dance-pop as you’ve never heard it, sliced through with razor-sharp shards of ska, dubstep,...

Just a couple of weeks after sharing their new album 10,000 gecs, 100 gecs took over Los Angeles’ Boiler Room the other night for a DJ set that incuded — among an array of bangers — a very gec-ified version of “Toxicity” by System of a Down.

It’s not too difficult to trace Laura Les and Dylan Brady’s abrasive, industrial hyperpop back to System of a Down’s adrenaline-fueled nu-metal. The duo toned down the original track’s guitars in favor of chopped-up instrumentals, a few beat drops, and bass boosted loud enough to cause some minor tectonic shifts.

The hour-and-a-half-long set also included House of Pain’s “Jump Around,” Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ “Heads Will Roll,” Harry Belafonte’s “Jump in the Line” back-to-back with Smash Mouth’s “Walkin’ on the Sun,” Skrillex’s “Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites” mashed up with Vince Staples’ “Yeah Right,” and many other great choices. See 100 gecs’ remix of “Toxicity” below,...

On their new album, 10,000 Gecs, the hyperpop 100 Gecs face down life after going viral with their breakthrough album, 2019’s brilliantly realized 1000 Gecs. It’s a challenge familiar to every extremely online disruptor, from Death Grips and Slayyyter to Danny L Harle of PC Music. Do you double down on the manic internet fusillade, or moderate your antics into tastefully eccentric pop bait? It’s the punk conundrum, Gen Z style.

To be sure, the second album from Dylan Brady and Laura Les contains plenty of genre-blurring craziness. “Billy Knows Jaime,...

Exclusive: The BFI and BAFTA have set the 2023 cohort of the BFI Flare x BAFTA mentoring scheme, which provides support to six Lgbtqia+ filmmakers working towards their debuts in film and television.

The programme runs in partnership with BFI Network and is in its ninth year. Alums include Aleem Khan (After Love), Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor, Georgi Banks-Davies (I Hate Suzie), Kayleigh Llewellyn, and Georgia Oakley (Blue Jean).

This year’s programme will support writer Dylan Brady, writer/director Phoebe Brooks, writer Matilda Feyiṣayọ Ibini, writer/director Sarah Grant, writer Bethan Marlow, and writer/director/producer Shiva Raichandani.

As part of the initiative, the participants are matched with industry mentors and invited to attend a two-day lab of events during BFI Flare, the BFI’s Lgbtqia+ film festival. The festival runs this month from March 15-26. They will also receive access to wellbeing...

100 gecs today share new single “Hollywood Baby” from the forthcoming album 10,000 gecs, which is set for release March 17th via Dog Show Records / Atlantic Records.

“The highly anticipated single has become a fan favorite during their recent shows, with grainy phone videos of the song circulating heavily in online forums and social media since the first timed they performed it in late 2021. The excitement for the song has been apparent ever since, with supporters showing up with the lyrics memorized despite the song ever being officially released.

“A music video accompanies the single, directed by Laura Les and Dylan Brady and edited by longtime 100 gecs collaborator Weston Allen, showcasing the gecs dancing while setting off fireworks in their apartment.

10,000 gecs is available for pre-order now.

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100 Gecs are literally burning down the house in the video for “Hollywood Baby,” the latest single off the duo’s upcoming LP 10,000 Gecs.

In the 100 Gecs-directed visual, Laura Les and Dylan Brady set off a Fourth of July amount of fireworks in the confines of their own apartment, risking life and limb to create a music video that perfectly explodes in step with every beat of “Hollywood Baby.”

Already a fan favorite at the duo’s riotous shows, “Hollywood Baby” finds 100 Gecs smashing their hyperpop sensibilities together with the pop-punk...

100 gecs have premiered their new single “Hollywood Baby” along with the reveal of the full tracklist for their upcoming sophomore album, 10,000 gecs.

“Hollywood Baby” has been a staple of the 100 gecs’ live repertoire since its debut in late 2021, but now gets its full-fledged studio treatment by the experimental pop duo, comprised of Laura Les and Dylan Brady, with some crucial contributions from drummer (and tourmate) Josh Freese. The ripping track quickly tears away any illusions of Tinseltown glamor as Les tells the titular “Malibu Barbie” to “go pitch your fit/ No one gives a shit/ Better off if you just get over it!”

100 gecs similarly let the Hollywood scene go up in flames for the song’s accompanying music video, which sees Les and Brady light fireworks inside their apartment while dancing among the smoke and debris. The visual, directed by the duo and edited by longtime collaborator Weston Allen,...

100 Gecs will hit the road this spring for a six-week North American tour in support of the hyperpop duo’s upcoming LP 10,000 Gecs.

The trek kicks off April 4 in San Jose and finds the band circling the U.S. over the course of 31 shows before winding back in California for a leg-ending gig in Anaheim. Check out 100 Gecs’ website for ticket information.

10,000 Gecs, 100 Gecs’ much-anticipated second album and follow-up to 2019’s 1000 Gecs, arrives on March 17. In December, after announcing the new LP, the duo of Laura Les and Dylan Brady...

The duo of Dylan Brady and Laura Les, 100 gecs, announces that the band’s highly-anticipated sophomore album, 10,000 gecs, will arrive on March 17th, 2023.

Along with this announcement, 100 gecs also released a surprise EP, Snake Eyes, featuring 3 unreleased tracks including “Torture Me” (w. Skrillex) and “Hey Big Man”, which has been a crowd favorite as the show opener on their recent tour.

10,000 gecs is available for pre-order on vinyl, CD, iTunes, and digital pre-save now.

This year, 100 gecs completed their headlining world tour and performed at festivals such as Coachella, Governors Ball, Bonnaroo, Primavera Sound, and Lollapalooza. A testament to their music not only wormholing into Gen-z ears but also gathering the respect of Alternative legends, the band was also handpicked to support acts such as Nine Inch Nails and My Chemical Romance this year.

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Centred on a chaotic family coming to terms with an autism diagnosis, the Israeli comedy-drama “Yellow Peppers” never aired on British television, but it’s had a pronounced influence on British TV schedules over the past decade. First, it begat Peter Bowker’s direct adaptation “The A Word,” which over three series relocated several of its predecessor’s storylines to a picturesque Lake District setting, achieving the holy-grail combo of excellent reviews and high ratings for the BBC before finding a transatlantic home on Sundance TV.

Now “The A Word” generates its own variation in “Ralph & Katie,” a six-part spin-off charting the further adventures of soccer-mad Ralph (Leon Harrop) and his baker beloved Katie (Sarah Gordy). Noteworthy as characters with Down’s syndrome played by actors with Down’s syndrome, these lovebirds first won hearts during a third-series subplot on “The A Word,” moving in together against the advice of their overprotective,...

Lollapalooza 2022 kicked off on Thursday in Chicago’s Grant Park with headliners Metallica, Lil Baby, and Caroline Polachek. Like the variety offered at the topline of the fest, the day featured an eclectic mix of music. From TikTok stars to rock royalty and the return of the Kidzapalooza stage for the first time in three years, there was something for every age group on Day 1. And if there was an underlying theme beyond appealing to a wide swath of fans, a handful of artists with famous kinfolk are taking center stage throughout the four-day festival.

100 Gecs are back with a new song, “Doritos and Fritos,” the second offering from their highly-anticipated next album, 10000 Gecs.

“Doritos and Fritos” does what 100 Gecs always do best, bridging the gaps between styles and eras as it swings between vintage Nineties alt-rock — seriously, the bass line sounds straight out of a Primus song — and glitched-out bubblegum pop. The lyrics remain perfectly irreverent as well, with Dylan Brady deadpanning about eating burritos with Danny DeVito, while Laura Less drones, “I went to France to get some new pants/I went to...

BBC One’s The A Word spin-off Ralph & Katie, which was created by a group of disabled writers overseen by Peter Bowker, has entered production in Manchester and the Lake District.

The six-parter from ITV Studios, Keshet Productions and Tiger Aspect, which follows the two beloved A-Word characters played by Leon Harrop and Sarah Gordy, has also unveiled cast including Gogglebox narrator Craig Cash, Dylan Brady (Get Even), Jamie Marie Leary (Traces), Sam Retford (Screw) and Daniel Cerqueira (Pennyworth). Returning actors from Bowker’s The A Word include Pooky Quesnel, Nigel Betts and Matt Greenwood.

The groundbreaking show is the UK’s first to feature an all-disabled writers’ room, with five writers overseen by World On Fire creator Bowker.

A program to give disabled people in the North West of England access to the show’s production will run...

100 Gecs bust out the wizard robes in the new video for “Mememe,” the first offering the from the duo’s highly-anticipated next album, 10000 Gecs.

“Mememe” finds 100 Gecs delivering ska-style verses and sky-high arena rock hooks, though the entire song is characteristically peppered with genre-exploding flourishes. The “Mememe” visual is equally over-the-top, shot largely on a fish eye lens — often from the perspective of inside someone’s mouth — as 100 Gecs’ Dylan Brady and Laura Les dance and jump around a sunny field in luxurious wizard robes.

“Mememe” is one of a...

100 Gecs are set to kick off a North American tour later this fall.

The 34-date 10,000 Gecs tour will launch on October 8th at the Fox Theater in Oakland and run all the way through December 9th, when the run wraps at Terminal 5 in New York City. Tickets for all shows will go on sale July 16th at 10 a.m. local time via 100 Gecs’ website.

100 Gecs released their debut album, 1000 Gecs, back in May 2019, while last July they followed it up with the remix compilation, 1000 Gecs and the Tree of Clues.

Tom Morello has teamed up with Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova for “Weather Strike.”

The Ksti Hu-directed video features distorted lyrics and blinding lights, as Tolokonnikova sings, “I’m sorry I just puked on your police suit” backed by Morello’s riff.

“Pussy Riot is one of the most radical and important activist musical groups of all time,” Morello said in a statement. “Their fearless blending of art and confrontation is a constant inspiration and it’s an honor to combine forces on this powerful, revolutionary track ‘Weather Strike.'...

Pussy Riot have released a new song, “Sexist,” which will appear on their upcoming Panic Attack EP, set to arrive March 11th.

The new track finds Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova linking up with fellow Russian musician, Hofmannita, while White Punk and Count Baldor produced the menacing beat. In a statement, Tolokonnikova described “Sexist” as a comment on rape culture that “tells a fictional story of a heroine being invited to a hotel room by a high-level male government official, being harassed, and winding up murdering her abuser in self-defense.

Pussy Riot have released a new song, “Toxic,” featuring Dorian Electra and produced by 100 Gecs’ Dylan Brady.

The song finds the Russian punk outfit melding their style with Electra and Brady’s hyper-pop acumen, with the track fluctuating between blistering rave beats and a completely blown-out chorus. “Come here mansplain me,” Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova sings, “Your balls meet my knee/Freedom I’m craving/Dare to mansplain me.”

“Toxic” arrives with a music video, directed by Tolokonnikova and featuring 3D art by Ksti Hu. The clip opens with...

Update Feb. 14: A week after ABC teased Claudia Conway’s audition in the season premiere of American Idol and a day after the teen lowered expectations by saying on social media that she was not happy with how she did, viewers got to see for themselves tonight.

The audition indeed was not a runaway success, and judge Katy Perry had to stop Conway in the middle of her performance to ask her to try a different song. After some discussion over the teen’s “limited range,” judge Luke Bryan gave her a “no” but “yes”es from Perry and Lionel Richie sent Conway to Hollywood, much to the delight to her famous parents who both make an appearance. Watch the full video above.

Updated: Days before the American Idol premiere on Sunday, Claudia Conway revealed that she is “not happy” with her audition for the long-running singing competition show.

Rebecca Black celebrated the 10th anniversary of her surprise viral hit “Friday” with a bonkers new remix featuring Big Freedia, 3Oh!3, and Dorian Electra, produced by 100 Gecs’ Dylan Brady.

The new remix is about as different from Black’s 2011 original as you can get, with Brady warping the sanitized mall pop into something delightfully delirious. Black’s vocals are pitch-shifted into oblivion, while Dorian Electra and 3Oh!3 chip in quick verses and Big Freedia steps in for a big bounce breakdown.

The “Friday” remix arrives with an equally over-the-top music video,...

100 Gecs have dropped a wild reimagining of Linkin Park’s classic, “One Step Closer,” marking the first in a series of remakes to further celebrate the 20th anniversary of the band’s 2000 debut, Hybrid Theory.

The track starts off pretty faithful to the original, with 100 Gecs recasting the intro with a bit more Edm wobble. But by the first chorus, the song explodes into a surreal yet cohesive collage of genres — one that, of course, would make Linkin Park proud — with both Laura Les and Dylan Brady adding their vocals to the song.

Hyperpop heroes 100 Gecs get back at Santa Claus for a poor showing of presents on their new holiday song, “Sympathy 4 the Grinch.”

The track finds the duo reaching into their bag of musical tricks and pulling out a ska-heavy sound (complete with requisite “pick it up!” ad-libs) to back their tale of Christmas vengeance. Laura Les and Dylan Brady share vocal duties, crafting the story of a person so disappointed with their gifts that they find Santa and steal his whole bag: “Never gave me a goddamn thing that I want,...

To mark what would have been Juice Wrld’s 22nd birthday Wednesday, producer Benny Blanco shared “Real Shit,” a previously unreleased collaboration with the late rapper.

In a lengthy Instagram post that accompanied the release of the track, Blanco reminisced about first meeting Juice Wrld and recording with the rapper; “Real Shit” is the first-ever track the pair worked on.

“My friend played me a song like two or three years ago… I looked at him and said it was one of the best songs I had ever heard… My...

Rico Nasty has announced that her major label debut album, Nightmare Vacation, will be released on December 4th via Atlantic.

The LP will feature collaborations with Trippie Redd, Aminé, Gucci Mane, and Don Toliver, as well as production from Dylan Brady, Take a Daytrip, Avedon, and Tay Keith. So far Rico Nasty has released the album singles “iPhone,” “Own It,” and “Don’t Like Me” featuring Gucci Mane and Don Toliver.

The rapper told Rolling Stone that it was her most personal project yet, and described it as a “more...

Rico Nasty has tapped Gucci Mane and Don Toliver for a new song, “Don’t Like Me,” the third single from her upcoming album, Nightmare Vacation, out this December via Atlantic.

The track boasts an ebullient beat with soft synth plunks shimmering atop booming bass and crisp drums. Rico leads the way, teaming up with Toliver on the instantly memorable chorus, then peeling off a delightful verse (“Ooh, roll one up just to keep me high/Ooh, don’t look down if you scared of heights”) before Gucci Mane takes over.

Callin and Brendan Paulhus are driving toward an inferno. It’s mid-September 2020; Los Angeles County has 474 new reported cases of Covid-19, the city is experiencing some of the worst air quality and pollution in the world, and five million acres across the West Coast are scorched due to forest fires. The Paulhus brothers knew all this, and still decided to pack up Bren’s 2016 Toyota Sonata on a Monday, put money down on a four-month lease, and make the cross-country drive from their family’s home in Massachusetts. They have 29 hours left until their destination.

100 Gecs, the critically beloved, genre-blending, extremely online duo from St. Louis, take Number One on the Breakthrough 25 Chart, which ranks the fastest-rising emerging artists of the month.

While Dylan Brady and Laura Les won over a number of music fans last year with their debut studio album, 1000 Gecs — it ranked 10th on Rolling Stone’s list of the best albums of 2019 — it was the remix album released in July that exposed them to more mainstream attention. With features from the likes of Charli Xcx and Rico Nasty, 1000 Gecs and the...

It’s a Spring Saturday and somewhere deep in Philadelphia, five twentysomethings are huddled in a small apartment, each hunched over a computer. The click-clack of their keyboards is the only sound heard in the room, but via their devices, they’re running one of the largest music festivals in the world.

April 25’s Block by Blockwest, a cheeky twist on the annual South By Southwest confab which was called off this year due to the Covid-19 pandemic, took place on Minecraft, the beloved online game in which block-shaped players can build the virtual worlds of their wildest dreams.

The team behind this particular world is Courier Club, an up-and-coming indie rock band consisting of singer and guitarist Timothy Waldron, lead guitarist Ryan Conway, bassist Michael Silverglade and drummer Jack Kessler. Along with Silverglade’s brother and self-taught Minecraft expert, Steven, they saw all of coronavirus’ music-related cancellations as an...

Charli Xcx is releasing her quarantine album, How I’m Feeling Now, on May 15th, so one can imagine that the pop star is hard at work scrambling to get the LP finished in time.

Yet, miraculously, Charli has still found the time to film an entire music video at home for “Claws,” one of the new album tracks, with her boyfriend Huck Kwong.

Directed by Charli and Charlotte Rutherford, the video is pretty straightforward: Just Charli Xcx partying in front of a greenscreen in a whole slew of outfits...

Charli Xcx dropped a new pop gem, “Claws,” off her upcoming quarantine album, How I’m Feeling Now, out May 15th.

Produced by 100 Gecs’ Dylan Brady, the electro-pop track centers around the chorus — “I like everything about you” — with tropical artwork to match its lyrics: “I’m not shy, make you sigh/Slip and slide up my thighs/Juicy just like clementines/Sorry if I make you cry.”

“Claws” follows the lead single “Forever,” released earlier this month. The song’s video featured a vast collection of Xcx’s personal...

100 Gecs are learning how to play with fire. Inside a Manhattan magic shop, Dylan Brady and Laura Les’ eyes pop as they flip open a trick wallet that bursts into flames and click a secret button on a coffee mug that shoots forth a bright blaze. The shop also doubles as a Harry Houdini museum and is filled with old artifacts: handcuffs, locks, posters, a coffin Houdini escaped from in 1907. In between tricks, Les recalls trying, and failing, to start a magic club in elementary school (no one else wanted...

Initially, Brevin Kim‘s new song “the wedding” is serene. The song begins with a guitar pluck, a disembodied howl, and the voice of a man singing, “Ain’t shit cool about falling.” The moment of tranquility lingers for less than 30 seconds as a sense of cascading doom teases itself on the horizon. Then the bottom drops out.

Screeching synths fill the vacuum, intense drums add to the discord, and the former ghostly voice comes to the forefront yelling, “Wake me up. I’m falling.” Sonically and thematically, the soft...

Deb Never‘s “Swimming” is brutally direct. “Treat me like you give a fuck about me now / If I ever let up, will you hold it down,” Never sings to open the song. Her only companion is a lone, somber guitar riff. Then, as if to slightly puncture the melodramatic air, frenetic drums courtesy of Dylan Brady’s (member of the fantastic 100 gecs) suddenly arrive to add a semblance of chaos to the dourness.

“Swimming” is built on a sense of propulsion underscored by immediate breaks. Drums drop out as quickly as they appear.