Rihanna

  • Mipso Closes Out 2023 at Johnny Brenda’s: “We’ll be delightfully unhinged.” (11/19)

    “I imagine we’ll be almost sort of delirious from all of time we’ve spent on the road…  We’ll be delightfully unhinged,” jokes Libby Rodenbough of Mipso’s upcoming, November 19th show at Johnny Brenda’s.  The show is not only the North Carolina-based, indie-Americana folk quartet’s last show of their current...
  • Kimbra’s A Reckoning: “It’s really about facing yourself.” (2/14 at WCL)

    “I’m just making the shit I wanna do, and I sense that freedom in the record,” Kimbra tells me of her latest album during a Zoom chat earlier this month.  That record is A Reckoning, the New Zealand art pop musician’s fourth LP and first to be released independently. ...
  • Meet BAYLI, 11/13 at UT (w/ Magdalena Bay)

    BAYLI is currently our favorite alt-pop-phenom-on-the-rise to emerge from the confines of lockdown-inspired internet fandom.  “She makes bops for the it-girl that resides in all of us,” says The Face.  The queer, Black singer/songwriter first made a major splash on her own with 2021’s stories from new york EP,...
  • Breland Talks Cross Country (9/22 at MilkBoy)

    “I’m in service to the songs.  And what I mean when I say that is songs kind of have a life of their own.  There’s an energy when creating a song where I want the song to do what the song wants to do and not necessarily what I...
  • May Rio on “Stay[ing] open, and a little bit confused.”

    Earlier this week May Rio (of Poppies) released a music video for “Reservations,” a morosely quirky ballad about being smitten with a recovering junkie.  The video, directed by Michael Jenson, was rendered on Mario Paint and edited on VCRs.  The audiovisual combo is a poignant reminder of the early-mid...
  • Dear Rihanna,

    Do you just always look good? Rihanna visits Jerusalem this past Sunday, covered from head-to-toe, and she still steals the show… Fucking GORGEOUS!! What’s his name must be missing you hard right now. TTLY, Conrad...
  • New Video: Rihanna, “Rockstar 101” Ft. Slash

    Is Slash really apart of this? He’s not in the video at least… Either way, love Rihanna, LOVE this video!! What’d you all think?… TTLY, Conrad...
  • Rihanna Films New Music Video In France

    I don’t really know her album well enough to guess at what her next single might be (if you know, however, let me know in the comments!), but Rihanna was out today in the fog at the castle of Vigny, in the suburbs of Paris, shooting some scenes for it’s...