death grips

This week, a handful of festival lineups were announced, as well as tour dates from Red Hot Chili Peppers, Silverstein, and others.

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Danny Elfman has announced his new album, Bigger. Messier. Elfman also shared a new version of “Kick Me” featuring Iggy Pop.

Viral musician Curtis Waters, aka Abhinav Bastakoti, just launched his latest EP, PLASTIC WORLD. The release includes “BAD MOOD” featuring Brevin Kim, which seamlessly transitions into “PSYCHO ICON.” Departing from previous lighthearted tracks such as “Stunnin’” and “Freckles” from his debut album, Pity Party, this new EP sees Waters challenge himself sonically by incorporating heavier […]

For a music genre, trap metal is still a baby. That being said, hundreds of Bones-core, Ghostemane-core and Scarlxrd-core tracks were uploaded to SoundCloud by the time you finished reading this sentence. Is there any room for the latest fusion of metal and hip-hop to expand and evolve, or is it doomed to repeat and […]

Collaboration among artists can make good songs turn into great ones. Surely, the alternative scene has witnessed this, whether it’s Alex Gaskarth and Mark Hoppus joining forces to create Simple Creatures or even My Chemical Romance and the Used coming together to work on “Under Pressure.” These collabs, of course, were no surprise, as the […]

Sometimes, the best music doesn’t come purely from guitars, basses, drums and so forth. There are instances where the coolest sounds that make or break a track come from everyday objects, voices of strangers and more.  Recording technology has come a long way from the old days, where if you wanted a weird sound, you […]

In a recent note posted to Facebook, Death Grips have announced their breakup. The band have canceled all upcoming tour dates—including their opening gig with Nine Inch Nails and Soundgarden—but still plan to released their double album, the powers that b. “we are now at our best and so Death Grips is over. we have […]

Soundgarden and Nine Inch Nails have announced they will be touring together this summer. The pair, who will be co-headlining, notably played together twenty years ago at Molson Park in Barrie, Ontario.  That Canadian festival marked the beginning of what some referred to as a “professional competition” between them.  “We had a chip on our shoulder about Soundgarden because their record [Superunknown] […]

When we last checked in with experimental hardcore hip hop group Death Grips, the band had just made their surprise third album, Government Plates, available for free download. In the few months since, Government Plates has seen an “official release” to iTunes, Death Grips have announced plans to tour and record throughout 2014, and the trio even inked a new publishing […]

Death Grips have returned with a surprise new album, Government Plates, which is available now to stream and download for free. The record was originally slated to arrive in 2014. A followup to 2012's No Love Deep Web, Government Plates marks the group's third proper full-length release, and second consecutive album to be self-released/leaked by the band, this time though […]