Issa Rae didn’t find out how her dad, a Senegal-born doctor, felt about her HBO series Insecure until a couple months after the first season wrapped. In fact, she thought he might hate it. “Then in our family group chat, he dropped a really inappropriate reference about Lawrence’s back shots …

Prophets of Rage – the supergroup/“elite task force of revolutionary musicians” featuring members of Rage Against the Machine, Public Enemy and Cypress Hill – explore Western culture’s damning stereotypes on their thunderous new track “Radical Eyes.” Frontmen Chuck D and B-Real alternate rhymes on the song, anchored by a bluesy …

Last April, singer-songwriter BJ Barham, the leader of the country-rock band American Aquarium, announced that the longstanding members of the group were going their separate ways. For Barham, that meant a solo tour in support of his debut effort Rockingham. Now, the North Carolina native has put together a new …

Godspeed You! Black Emperor will release their sixth studio album, Luciferian Towers, on September 22nd via Constellation Records. The Canadian post-rock collective will promote the LP with a North American and European tour launching September 3rd at Montreal’s Mile Ex End Musique Montréal Festival and concluding November 7th at Paris’ …

The Grateful Dead deliver a limber performance of “Touch of Grey” in a new clip from their previously unreleased July 12th, 1989 concert at Washington D.C.’s RFK Stadium. The whole concert will air at movie theaters nationwide tonight, August 1st, as part of the the Dead’s seventh annual Meet-Up at …