Vice’s New Music Friday
Vice also ran a broader New Music Friday guide that flags five songs for the week, noting new material from artists as wide‑ranging as DevilDriver and 6lack. (vice.com) The feature serves as a quick listening map for the week’s notable drops. (vice.com)
Vice’s music desk used its April 17 “New Music Friday” column to narrow a crowded release week to five tracks, with picks spanning DevilDriver, 6LACK, Genghis Tron, There Were Wires, and Return to Dust. (vice.com) The article, written by Stephen Andrew Galiher and published at 5:56 p.m. on April 17, 2026, framed the list as a fast guide to songs worth queuing up over the weekend. (vice.com) Vice’s five selections covered several corners of the release calendar in one post: DevilDriver’s “Dig Your Own Grave,” 6LACK and 2 Chainz’s “Sunday Again,” Genghis Tron’s “I Am All,” There Were Wires’ “Massive House Fire,” and Return to Dust’s cover of Outkast’s “Hey Ya!” with Mat Mitchell of Puscifer. (vice.com) That mix tracks with how Vice has been handling music coverage in April 2026. The same music section also published a separate April 17 roundup focused only on hip-hop and rhythm and blues, selecting three tracks from that lane instead of trying to cover every genre in one list. (vice.com; vice.com) Several of the songs in the broader roundup were tied to bigger release cycles rather than one-off drops. Vice described “Sunday Again” as a track from 6LACK’s forthcoming album *Love Is The New Gangsta*, and identified “Massive House Fire” as the lead song from There Were Wires’ album *Vessel*, due June 26 on Iodine Recordings. (vice.com) Streaming pages and artist sites show how quickly those recommendations can turn into listening and touring prompts. Spotify lists “Sunday Again” as a 2026 single by 6LACK and 2 Chainz, while Return to Dust’s official site showed the band playing Los Angeles on April 17 and San Diego on April 18 as the cover landed in Vice’s roundup. (spotify.com; returntodust.com) Vice has been running these “New Music Friday” posts regularly, with earlier April entries on April 3 and April 10 built around the same five-song format. That turns the feature into a recurring weekly filter, not a one-off list, for readers trying to keep up with new releases across rock, metal, rap, and adjacent scenes. (vice.com; vice.com; vice.com) In practice, the April 17 list worked less like a canon than a map: five tracks, one Friday, and enough range to send metal fans, rhythm-and-blues listeners, and alt-rock browsers in different directions before the next release cycle hits. (vice.com)
