Montreal singer-songwriter Brigitte Naggar makes earthy and ruminative music as Common Holly. Following up her 2017 debut Playing House, Naggar has announced her sophomore full-length, When I say to you Black Lightning, her first for new label home Barsuk. The new collection of music chiefly concerns humanity’s emotional challenges and how we ...

Common released his last studio album, Black America Again, back in 2016. Last year, he shared an album with August Greene, his supergroup with pianist Robert Glasper and drummer Karriem Riggins. Today, Common announced his forthcoming solo LP and shared a new single. "Hercules" is the second single off Let Love, following lead…

All with a common theme of Badness... Bastille's Dan SmithBastille have tackled a new mash-up that sees them covering Billie Eilish, Taylor Swift and Lady Gaga. Performing at BBC Maida Vale Studios, the London band delivered a cover of all three artists – with a common theme of “Bad” featuring in all of the songs. After per...

Think you might know what the most used word is?Slipknot perform live at Download 2019A Slipknot fan has compiled a list of the most commonly-used words found in the band’s lyrics. Read more: Slipknot’s blistering set at Download festival 2019 showed their reign is far from over Reddit user disintegration wrote: “I ran Sli...

Jack White's been so commonly associated with good-ol'-fashioned rock 'n' roll over the years that it's been easy to overlook the fact that he often works similar to how dance producers do. For starters, there's nothing more explicitly tied to how dance music operates than running your own label to put out releases from yourself…