• 25 Best Songs 2015: The Weeknd, Drake, Justin Bieber, Kendrick Lamar & More

    Among your “Pretty Girls” and Vine stars, you had real gems in 2015. From some surprise pop breakthroughs from the likes of Jason Derulo and The Weeknd to touching indie songs from Braids and Sufjan Stevens and some of the most fiery rap in years from Kendrick Lamar and Kanye West, this year was not wanting for great songs.
  • Grimes Shares Unreleased Song ‘Fifteen Minutes To’ [LISTEN]

    Claire Boucher, better known as Grimes, has surprise-released a new song, "Fifteen Minutes To." The singer-songwriter shared the previously unreleased track via her Tumblr account, stating that it "probably" pre-dates one of her full-length albums from 2010, 'Halafaxa.'
  • Arcade Fire's Will Butler Reviews Grimes' 'Art Angels' Album

    Will Butler of Arcade Fire has reviewed Grimes' new Art Angels album on Talkhouse, the website where artists talk about other artists. Despite asserting early-on that "Grimes is coming, to a large extent, from the world of 2000s pop, but she creates a giant, esoteric, viable world teeming with all sorts of poisonous Jurassic life" the Canadian multi-instrumentalist and composer overcomes his general disdain for 2000s pop (and Jurassic-era life on Earth) for just long enough to compare Grimes to Eiffel 64 and discuss the cultural importance of Bob Dylan and Prince, among other pop music and literary icons.
  • Mixtape Monday: This Week's Newest Tracks For Sharing

    Each and every week we put together our favorite tracks that had premiered a few days prior into one magnificent mixtape to share with you and your friends. This time around we've decided to share new 2015 songs from Justin Bieber, Sam Smith, Banks, Grimes and more right here!
  • Stream Grimes Album 'Art Angels' Featuring Janelle Monae

    Grimes, born Claire Boucher, has at last released her long-awaited album Art Angels. After nearly three years of back and forth about the possibility of a new album that included scrapped projects and near misses, Grimes has completed a project she feels confident enough to present to the world. The album only has two features in total coming from Janelle Monáe and Aristophanes.
  • Mixtape Monday: This Week's Newest Tracks For Sharing

    Each and every week we put together our favorite tracks that had premiered a few days prior into one magnificent mixtape to share with you and your friends. This time around we've decided to share new 2015 songs from Ariana Grande, Justin Bieber, Grimes and more right here!
  • Grimes Announces 'The Rhinestone Cowgirl Tour,' Tentative Album Release Date

    Grimes has been promising a new album for quite some time now, making music, scrapping it and then making more. More concrete details have started to emerge in numerous interviews recently, which is a sign itself that she is doing press in anticipation of something, for her upcoming, still untitled fourth album. In addition to the Visions follow up, the "Oblivion" singer has announced The Rhinestone Cowgirl Tour, which will take the artist across North America on a month-long tour during October and November.
  • Grimes' Claire Boucher Talks New Album, "Diss Tracks" and Scolds the Media

    Grimes' Claire Boucher, Recent covergirl for Fader and electro sensation, plans to release the follow up to 2012's 'Visions' in October. The track listing to Boucher's forthcoming LP is set to include "a lot of diss tracks" including a song "about male producers," which, according to her recent profile for Fader, was inspired by "a guy who acts like he knows everything and then comes back crawling on his knees, which has happened to me so many times."
  • Grimes Announces 'Visions' Follow-Up, Year After Scrapping More Pop Disc

    Alt-pop, alt-whatever musician Grimes has once again announced a release date for her new album, although we're inclined to believe it when we see it. The performer stated that her follow-up to 2012's Visions would be released during 2014...but then she axed the entire album after deciding that it came across as too commercial. The new album, which doesn't have a title as of yet, was confirmed for October 2015 by the performer this weekend.
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