In addition, he's been featured on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, Comedy Central and Netflix on Kevin Hart's Hart of the City, The Late Late Show with James Corden, and is a regular on After Midnight with Taylor Tomlinson. Online, his stand-up clips and jokes have received hundreds of millions of views and his podcast, Don't Make Me Come Back There, has over 3 million downloads.
Xaviersobased is hitting the road. The New York rapper has announced the Riverside Tour, which begins in November. The first date is in Vancouver, and Xaviersobased will stop in Los Angeles, Milwaukee, Detroit, and elsewhere, before wrapping things up, on December 18, with a hometown show at New York's Webster Hall. See his schedule below. Also below, watch his new music video for Worth It.
Ticketmaster is encouraging sign-ups and will be selling tickets here. Am I the Drama? arrives this Friday, September 19th. The sophomore album seven years in the making will contain Cardi B's Hot 100 No. 1 singles "WAP" with Megan Thee Stallion from 2020, and "Up" from 2021,
Chicago post-rock staples Tortoise are back with their first new album in nine years. arrives on vinyl, CD, and digital download on October 24, via International Anthem and Nonesuch, with the album coming to digital streaming platforms on November 11. Today, Tortoise are sharing the new song "Layered Presence," with its Mikel Patrick Avery -directed music video. Check it out below.
Watch the performance below. As a song about - well, climaxing - Carpenter unsurprisingly pushed the envelope with her performance. She emerged from a manhole and soon found herself soaked in the rain. She was joined by a group of drag performers holding signs with slogans like "Dolls, Dolls, Dolls," "If You Hate You'll Never Get Laid," and "Protect Trans Rights."
Speak Daggers arrives October 17, via Escho, and features reggae all-timers the Congos and Copenhagen artists Erika de Casier and Fine. Watch the Foushee-directed video for new single USA Baby below. Rnnenfelt and Foushee recently linked up on Little Gods, one of two songs Rnnenfelt recorded with Yung Lean, who operated under his Jonatan Leandoer96 alias. Since then, the Iceage man has reunited with his Lucre EP collaborators, Dean Blunt and Vegyn, for Tears on His Rings and Chains.
"It's all songs and concepts we haven't been close to touch until now," he said. "The mind is wild and we have lost ourselves in the darkest woods, filled with memories, and fantasies. Forbidden thoughts that must be spoken. It would have been impossible to make this album at any other time than now. That's all we ever wanted, and I think you'll find it's all you ever wanted too."
Mavis Staples has announced her 14th solo album, Sad and Beautiful World, due out on November 7 via ANTI-. It was produced by Phil Cook, with Buddy Guy, Bonnie Raitt, Jeff Tweedy, Katie Crutchfield, MJ Lenderman, Justin Vernon, and Derek Trucks all making appearances on it. The album includes her cover of Frank Ocean's "Godspeed" from June, and she's shared another track, a rendition of Kevin Morby's "Beautiful Strangers," which you can hear below.
"When I first heard Asleep at the Wheel and their Bob Wills tribute, it blew my mind that there was a band out there still playing this kind of music," Hedley says, adding, "At its core Western Swing is just dance music. Bob Wills didn't play theatres; he played dance halls. The music is for dancing, and that's what I wanted to come through on these songs."
Folds' subsequent work as a solo artist has elevated his status even further; he has since expanded into scoring for film and television, producing for (and collaborating with) other artists, writing an autobiography, doing a bit of acting, and mounting tours that emphasize an interactive quality.
"We had a few windows in mid-winter and it really felt like there was an urgency to capture a moment in time with these songs, performances, people involved, and against the political backdrop," says Ben Whitely. "The record really feels like a capture instead of a meticulous construction. Part of Joan's concept was not only to go to a place but to draw on the community of musicians from that place."
"A couple years ago Max (Kakacek) and I were both on the brink of moving across the country to be closer to the people we were dating at the time. Over the span of a few months both relationships somewhat abruptly crumbled, leaving us with equal parts confusion and sadness, mourning the futures that would have accompanied those relationships as well as the relationships themselves."