Update (4.13.18, 4:00 p.m.): Nicole Schoenholz has shared a statement with TrackRecord, indicating that the post which appeared on r/emo this Wednesday was from her friend, and that she would not comment further on the allegations:
Cameron Boucher, frontman of the popular emo band Sorority Noise, has been accused of rape. Late Monday night musician Nicole Schoenholz—who currently performs as One Hundred Year Ocean and used to play with The World Is a Beautiful Place & I am No Longer Afraid to Die—posted an allegation on her personal Facebook…
Sound the dang alarm because Ariana Grande is back, baby!
Old man Jack White, a maker of music and haver of opinions, has had a spotty run of both lately. On the press tour for his most polarizing solo album, Boarding House Reach, he’s taken some attention-grabbing stances, from restricting cell phone use at live shows to praising controversial psychologist Jordan Peterson.…
Cardi B co-hosted Tuesday’s episode of The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, and her effortless, comedic stage presence has me convinced that she could do Fallon’s job—not that I want her to, she should keep making music (please don’t stop making music). I have to admit, watching Cardi make Jimmy Fallon laugh seriously…
The music industry is inaccessible in many ways, down to the medium in which fans can purchase tickets, new findings by Attitude Is Everything (an English charity that seeks to improve access to live music for the deaf and people with disabilities) has revealed. The organization’s fourth annual report highlights the…
This year has been good to the rock superpowers of yore, who’ve teased new things with countdowns or simply Tooled around in studio. It looks like the group I’d most like to hear from have tried their hands at revivalism, too: System of a Down, the nu metal-adjacent hard rockers who hold up way better than you…
Cardi B’s full-length album Invasion of Privacy delivered one of the year’s best getting-ready/going-out songs, “She Bad.” (The two-syllable title perfectly captures the track’s ethos and serves as a personal inspiration to me.) Not to be outdone, Drake submitted his entry into the Song of the Summer category early,…
Even if you find the humor of Saturday Night Live, in 2018, to be largely unfortunate (just me?) the cast and crew truly knocked it out of the park Saturday, April 7 with help from (honestly it would’ve been nothing without her) rapper Cardi B, pop culture’s sole savior. The “Bodak Yellow” talent blessed 30…
There are endless benefits to representation across media—there’s power in seeing your story, and the stories of others, reflected in television, film, music...all platforms. There are endless dangers in it, too—tokenization is prevalent, perhaps, deceptively, more now than ever, which means conversation must be…
They’ve been too few and far between, since Meek Mill was sentenced to 2 to 4 years in jail last November for a nearly 10 years-old probation violation, but the rapper has a reason to hold out hope for justice. After Genece Brinkley, the judge who’s seemed less than scrupulous throughout the process, denied Mill bail…
Cardi B’s debut album, Invasion of Privacy, (pew pew pewwww, airhorn sounds) is out now, which means today is the day that you, yes you, should listen to it. It features songs with Migos, SZA, YG, Kehlani, Chance the Rapper, Bad Bunny, and J Balvin. I’m on my first listen of the day, and it’s so good. So run, don’t…
File this under genius ideas I wish I came up with: Two Minutes to Late Night, a YouTube channel that refers to itself as “the world’s only heavy metal-themed talk show,” found a Ornithologist (that’s science for “person who studies birds”) named Tom Stevenson to compare iconic metal vocalists to bird calls, because…
Russell Simmons has been avoiding the public eye for the last few months, following allegations of sexual assault or rape from multiple women that span decades of his career. On Wednesday, he addressed the accusations from one of these women: Jennifer Jarosik, a yoga instructor who sued against Simmons for sexual…
Anyone who follows or participates in the music industry probably understands what a crass and unjust enterprise it all is—and if they don’t, they definitely should. An immediate example: at the highest levels of influence among pop and hip-hop artists in the United States, gender representation was especially poor in…
Frances Bean Cobain—daughter of iconic Nirvana frontperson Kurt Cobain and Hole singer Courtney Love, best friend to Mindless Self Indulgence’s Lyn-Z, aspiring YouTube chef and extremely cool 20-something—has made her first foray into original music. In a new video posted to her official Instagram account Wednesday,…
Tool, the iconic American rock band famous for such arty-metal, heavy rock radio hits like “Prison Sex,” “Stinkfist,” and other songs your hard cousin enjoys, is supposedly working on a fifth studio album—their first in 12 years, since 2006's 10,000 Days. My personal conspiracy theory is that is exactly how many days…
The entertainment world doesn’t want anyone to forget the tragic shooting that occurred at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida on Valentine’s Day and left 17 people dead, including students as young as 14. On Tuesday, Broadway Records announced a charity concert called From Broadway With Love: A…
Here’s a thing that’s been going on for a little while: How I Met Your Mother star Josh Radnor has been playing in a folk duo with Australian musician and 2008 PETA World’s Sexiest Vegetarian nominee Ben Lee. Their first album, released under the name Radnor & Lee, came out in November 2017, and they stopped by…
It feels like every upwardly-mobile actor these days somehow finds time to be in a band. At least three of the Stranger Things kids are in bands (I don’t get it either, aren’t they all 12-year-olds?) Then there’s those actor-musician crossovers from the early-aught days of yore, that only Olds will remember: Ryan…