Big-time Father John Misty fan Elton John has been in career retrospective mode for a good long while now. He released a saucy memoir and oversaw his own fantastical biopic. He launched a three-year-long farewell tour, now in limbo due to the pandemic. And today he has announced Elton: Jewel Box, a box set featuring…

Run The Jewels just released their monstrous, long-awaited album RTJ4 last month, and that should be enough Killer Mike and El-P verses to sit around and process for a while. But today, we get a couple of new ones. Run The Jewels have teamed up with Travis Barker, the Blink-182 drummer and moonlighting rap producer,…

Devonté Hynes, the man who records as Blood Orange, is usually one of the busiest, most prolific collaborators on the landscape. During the quarantine era, Hynes has been relatively quiet; we haven't posted anything he's done since he showed up on the Avalanches' single "We Will Always Love You" back in February. But this past…

Last weekend, Killer Mike, who just put out the powerful new Run The Jewels album RTJ4 with El-P, gave a speech urging protesters in his Atlanta home not to burn down the city. And last night, he once again went on Real Time With Bill Maher to expand on his thoughts regarding the protests, destruction…

Nite Jewel is a professor now. The last time we heard from the bedroom-pop vibe-manipulator Ramona Gonzalez was nearly two years ago, when she released a two-song single that featured the tracks "On Your Own" and "The Jokes On You." These days, Gonzalez is studying for her PhD in musicology at UCLA, and she's also…