Kamaal Williams

Plus: Foo Fighters, Arcade Fire, The Goon Sax, Thursday, $uicideboy$, Cass McCombs, Show Me the Body, You Am I, Bonny Light Horseman, James Murphy, Juan Maclean, Built to Spill, The Delgados, Lollapalooza, and more tour / festival news.

Friday's NYC-area shows include Elton John, Mdou Moctar, Bartees Strange, Bonobo, Cold World, and more.

Plus: Jeff Rosenstock, Imperial Triumphant, Smerz, Noise Pop 2022, The Tossers / Crazy & The Brains, Eagles, Converge, The Body, and more tour and festival news.

The Barcelona festival has two different weekends (one that the organizers say ”we owe you” and one that ”we owe ourselves”), and there are also weekday shows and a Sunday brunch on the beach...

Though jazz never went away, the past few years have seen a serious jazz renaissance that continues to grow and intersect with hip hop, electronic music, and more. Here are 15 of this year's jazz albums that we strongly recommend...

This week's Notable Releases include Courtney Marie Andrews' personal, stripped-back new album, Boldy James & Sterling Toles' full-band jazz-rap collab, The Acacia Strain's guest-filled, late-career triumph, Gulch's new rager, and more...

Listen to new songs from Lomelda, Throwing Muses, The Lemon Twigs, Vampire Weekend, Kamaal Williams, J Balvin, Spun Out (ex Ne-Hi), and more.

Listen to new singles from Psychedelic Furs, Kelly Lee Owens, Deradoorian, Full of Hell, Necrot, JPEGMAFIA, Tourist & The Range, Dent May, Bent Arcana (Oh Sees / TVOTR), Anamanaguchi, Bing & Ruth, Jess Williamson/Hand Habits, Katie Dey, and more.

Our April 2020 playlist includes tracks by Matt Berninger, Phoebe Bridgers, Perfume Genius, Jason Isbell, Neil Young, The 1975, Hayley Williams, Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist, Ka, Standing on the Corner, Cut Copy, slowthai & Kenny Beats, Protomartyr, Jeff Rosenstock, Owen Pallett, Deerhoof and more.

UK jazz/electronic/hip hop musician Kamaal Williams has announced his sophomore solo album, Wu Hen, due July 24 via Kamaal's own Black Focus label...