Last year, Jaime Brooks, the artist who first rose to underground online fame under the name Elite Gymnastics, released a new Default Genders album called main pop girl 2019, ending a half-decade break between full-length projects. It was a fascinating and rewarding collection of electronic pop songs that was widely heralded as one of Brooks'

Rappers sing now. It's a given. It's a part of the landscape. This is not new. Things have been moving in this generation for more than a decade. Fifteen years ago, T-Pain released an album called Rappa Ternt Sanga, and its title was a lie. T-Pain was rapping and singing at the same time. These…

The 21-year-old Sacramento rapper ShooterGang Kony has been making music for a few years now. Last year, he broke out nationally with the extremely thorough Second Hand Smoke mixtape and with "Charlie," a stupidly funky Bay Area anthem. But now that he's earned some attention, ShooterGang Kony is going in a different direction, and we…

The South Florida band Seed Of Pain play a fervent, intense, blood-gargling form of metallic hardcore -- one built on riffs and grooves and screams. It's a visceral, physical sound, and it kicks a whole lot of ass. Today, the band -- which shares members with other Florida bands like Ecostrike and Envision -- releases…

Last night, Fox dedicated the coveted after-the-super-bowl spot to The Masked Singer, its absurdist singing-competition show. On that utterly fucking ridiculous program, an adaptation of a South Korean show, celebrities in surreal and outlandish costumes sing songs, and the show's judges attempt to guess who they are before unmasking them as the...