December 23, 2021

Protest: Billy Bragg on lockdown, Thatcher, and QAnon

• The best albums of 2021 from The Daily Music Report
• The best songs of 2021 from The Daily Music Report
• 3 New Albums Out this Week you Should Listen to Now: Nick Cave and Warren Ellis, Chief Keef, and Roddy Ricch
• Best New Music Playlist featuring Neil Young with Crazy Horse, Big Thief, Waxahatchee, Best Coast and more…
• ZZ Top sells publishing catalog and royalties for $50 million
• Brian Eno slams NFTs: “Now artists can become little capitalist assholes as well”
• Guided by Voices cancel New Years shows in Atlantic City & Brooklyn amid Omicron wave
• Thom Yorke debuts The Smile’s ‘Free in the Knowledge’ at first post-lockdown performance: Watch
• Chief Keef breaks his 3-year silence with an absolute banger of an album, 4NEM
• Neil Young and Crazy Horse release their 14th album together, Barn
• South of France release their first single off their upcoming LP, ‘My Spirit Animal/My Baggage’
• Colorado’s chillhum closes out 2021 with a powerful set of songs, ‘snow’ and ‘listen along’
• L.A.’s Slouch Online has released, ‘Skelly’s,’ his last single of 2021
• Midnight Pool Party release their fourth and final single of 2021, ‘TRUTH’
• L.A. indie outfit, Spectre Jones, release their first single of 2021
• ‘REDEEMED’, cln’s latest release of 2021 is a chill-electro-pop track that was too good to let go of
• 21 cool pop albums from 2021 you might have missed
• The 20 best hip-hop albums of 2021: Critics’ picks
• Under the Radar announces Covers of Covers album, shares Grandaddy and EMA tracks
• Tomorrowland will expand to three weekends in 2022
• Dave Navarro and Anthony Kiedis reunite to cover Lou Reed’s ‘Walk on the Wild Side’: Watch
• Billie Eilish delivers sultry acoustic performance of ‘Billie Bossa Nova’: Watch
• The Weeknd drops ‘Echoes of Silence’ video to celebrate mixtape’s 10th anniversary: Watch
• SZA and Kacey Musgraves are both really interested in a collaboration
• 10 best ’70s London punk bands, from Siouxsie And The Banshees to Sex Pistols
• Twitter is in love with photo of Alice Cooper serving food to children
• Late Metallica bassist Cliff Burton’s Dawn of the Dead shirt returned to family 35 years later