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Osees Surprise-Release New Album 'Off Course' — Don’t let the fact that John Dwyer is always releasing new music trick you into taking him for granted. In the first half of this year, the California psychedelic garage-punk king has already launched the new side project Heathen Ax
Not all AI workers think the tech could kill everyone — In text exchanges and conversations, multiple people who have worked for leading companies are sceptical of the warnings.
Napsack Announce New Album 'More Mountains': Hear "If I Could Write" — Knapsack were ’90s emo pioneers who reunited last year. This post is not about them. It’s about Napsack, the countrified indie rockers from Cleveland. In October, Napsack will release their new album More…
Thundercat Sets Fall North American Tour — The Distracted AF run features support from Channel Tres, TiaCorine, Fera, 54 Ultra, and Kitty Ca$h
Lopsided Tech Bets Get Hit in AI Stock Selloff — Tech ETFs saw massive inflows this summer.
Lorde Speaks Out Against "Fucked Up" AI Glasses — Last month, Kylie Jenner was the face of the new Meta AI Glasses campaign, and Ninajirachi was disappointingly the soundtrack. On Thursday (July 9), Lorde performed at the Mad Cool Festival in Madrid and spoke up against smart…
Watch a Young Knight Conquer a Castle in Navy Blue’s New Music Video — Cardboard towers and swords dominate the touching “Sir Render” visual
The Strokes Push Back Album, Announce Hometown Show With Beach House, TV On The Radio, & Fcukers — The Strokes have some good news and some bad news for you. Bad news first: You’ll have to wait longer for Reality Awaits. The band’s first album in six years was scheduled for relea
@ Share New Song "Punish My Mind": Listen — In June, @ announced their new album Autosmile and unveiled the compelling title track. The electronic folk outfit is back today with the idiosyncratic second single “Punish My Mind.” “‘Punish My Mind’ is a chill song about…
Hew Share New Song "Reconciliation": Listen — Lindsay Minton and Mercy Harper are members of the Houston emo band Football, etc., and they’re also in Hew, a relatively new band that’s set to release their debut album Your Version this summer. We’ve already posted the title track,
Album Of The Week: Nixon Boyd 'Every Time We Turn A Corner' — Usually when I adore a musician, I instinctively hate their imitators, out of loyalty and a desire for originality. But when singer-songwriters come along and remind me of Elliott Smith, I swoon. It’s not like he…
CD Sales Growth Outpaces Vinyl (Despite Half Of Gen Z & Millennial CD Buyers Not Owning CD Players) — Wednesday, entertainment and music data compiler Luminate released their midyear report that “highlights changing consumer behaviors and the evolving economics driving music,…
Veeze Returns With Surprise Mixtape — Y’all Won is out now
L7 Bassist Jennifer Finch Dies at 59 — The grunge musician died on Saturday after being diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer
Album Of The Week: Nick Hakim 'I Can See' — Theoretically, Nick Hakim makes soul music, but it’s more like visiting spirit music. The Queens-based polymath, a trusted collaborator for figures as disparate as Adrianne Lenker and Lil Yachty, can be heard on many kinds of records.…
How Strange It Is Announce New Album 'There Is No Evil': Hear "Slime" — Meet How Strange It Is, a Portland band making fuzzed-out indie rock and announcing their new album called There Is No Evil today. The lead single “Slime” is a dreamy, infectious banger in the vein of Wishy…
Morrissey Attacks Johnny Marr In Lengthy Screed Over New Smiths Documentary — In 2024, Morrissey complained that he was being erased from the Smiths’ origin story, and now he’s angry about it again. In a since-deleted Morrissey Central post titled “The Art Of Forgery,” the…
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Uncle Acid Drummer Slams "Soft As Shit" Gorillaz For Forcing Early End To Their Roskilde Set — There’s always some kind of drama when Damon Albarn plays Roskilde. In 2015, the Blur and Gorillaz leader was forcibly removed from the stage at the Danish music festival after…
$100 AI Music Video: Claude Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol — We gave Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol the same song, a budget, web search, and local ffmpeg, then let each autonomously direct a music video.
Chrome Hearts Clothing Drops Neil Young Lawsuit — The Los Angeles brand that shares its name with Young’s band has voluntarily dropped its trademark infringement claim
Catch a Glimpse of Phoebe Bridgers in Her New Film With Robert Pattinson — A24’s Primetime also stars Merritt Wever and Skyler Gisondo
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Tutto quello che credi di sapere sull'immigrazione è falso | Lorenzo D’Agostino | TEDxMessina — Lorenzo D'Agostino invita a guardare oltre i luoghi comuni che circondano il tema delle migrazioni. Attraverso dati, inchieste e testimonianze mostra come molte narrazioni…
Protests in Spain over government's handling of Ceuta migrant crisis — Spanish opposition parties accuse Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez of abandoning the residents of Ceuta.
Standing On The Corner Share Two New Songs: Listen — The mysterious Brooklyn collective Standing On The Corner released a new album last year, but you probably didn’t hear it. You had to really work to hear Standing On The Corner II, since the LP has never appeared on a…
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The Sound and Music of 'Hyper Light Drifter' — The neon, nightmarish soundscape of the acclaimed Hyper Light Drifter has proven to be an incredibly unique part of the game. Over the course of three years, the music and sound were slowly forged, though it took countless…
Glasshouse Red Spider Mite Share New Song "Hell 1000": Listen — I continue to grow depressed over the conversation around AI in the music industry. That doesn’t mean I don’t want the discussion to stop, but it’s still discouraging to continually blog more about AI rather than…
Beck Announces New Album 'Ride Lonesome': Hear "In The Night" — Somehow, it’s been nearly seven years since the last Beck album. In the waning weeks of 2019, Beck Hansen released Hyperspace, a forward-thinking pop-rock album that counted Pharrell Williams among its core…
Fuming Mouth Announce New Album 'The Ringing Bell': Hear "A Blaze Of Nihilism" — In 2023, Fuming Mouth unleashed their sophomore album Last Day Of Sun, which saw frontman Mark Whelan grappling with his battle with leukemia. The band has stayed quiet since, with some tours and son
zayALLCAPS Announces New Album My Uncle Told Me Some Real Ass Shit on the Phone Yesterday — The follow-up to 2025’s Art Pop * Pop Art is out this month
Cold Court Share New Single "Cola": Listen — Philadelphia glitch masters Cold Court are back with the new single “Cola.” It’s their final single, following “Burn” and “Backslang,” from their forthcoming EP (^_^) / that’s out this Friday. “Cola,” which was the last song that Mini
Sharp Pins Share New Single "Saturday Sun": Listen — Human hook-factory Kai Slater is a member of the and Lifeguard and a key piece of Chicago’s Hallogallo scene, the circle of super-young bands documented on the recent Red Xerox compilation. Slater also makes groovy ’60s-style…
TikTok to pay $400m to US in one of largest child privacy settlements — The deal stems from a 2024 lawsuit alleging TikTok and its parent company ByteDance collected "vast amounts of data" on millions of users under the age of 13.
Petri Nets as a Music Sequencer — A music sequencer built entirely on Petri nets — token rings become drum machines, Euclidean rhythms fall out of the topology, and polyrhythm comes free.
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The Chicks to Tour Taking the Long Way for Its 20th Anniversary — Coming to North American theaters and concert halls this fall
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Twisted Teens Announce New Album Florida Water Blues — The New Orleans duo’s second LP of 2026 is out this Friday, followed by an extensive tour
Peter Bjorn and John Plot Writer’s Block 20th Anniversary Tour — The indie trio’s revered album will get the live treatment this fall
Crash Of Rhinos Play First Show In 13 Years — On Friday (July 17), Crash Of Rhinos played their first show since 2013. In Nottingham, the band kicked of a short tour in support of Logbook, the Derby emo revivalists’ first album since that year. “That last tour was so…
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FFO: Chillin Share New Single "All I Know": Listen — Over the next week, a band called FFO: Chillin will open five shows for Joyce Manor and Glitterer. FFO: Chillin hail from Concord, New Hampshire, they have a couple EPs to their name (which is great, by the way), and they…
Lightning strike kills Thai footballer during match — Footage shows the moment a lightning strike hit a football player in southern Thailand, during a semi-final match.
China’s Alibaba takes another swipe at America’s AI supremacy — Alibaba says its latest model can compete with Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5.
Carly Rae Jepsen Announces New Double Album 'Day And Night' — Look who’s back! Carly Rae Jepsen, queen of critically acclaimed cult-favorite pop stars, has recently been teasing a return, and it’s about time. Jepsen never stops touring, but she hasn’t dropped a new album since…
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AirPods Max 2 Discounted by $120 Across Amazon and Best Buy — Apple's AirPods Max 2 have hit $429.00 on Amazon this week, down from $549.00. This sale is available in two colors on Amazon, while Best Buy has all five models in stock at this low price. Note: MacRumors is an…
Beck Announces First Album in 7 Years — Listen to “In the Night” from Ride Lonesome, which reunites Beck with Joey Waronker, Justin Meldal-Johnsen, and Nigel Godrich
This artist recreated famous songs using only the sounds of their own voice layered together — it's hypnotic how a single person becomes a whole band 🎵
Underscores Calls Out "Misogynistic" Houston Venue Meow Wolf For Limiting Her Production — Underscores has been making waves this year, releasing the much-hyped album U and starting raves from the back of a U-Haul. Last night the up-and-coming hyperpop star called out the Houston
'New Girl' Creator To Write Britney Spears Biopic — We learned back in 2024 that Britney Spears had sold the rights to her memoir, The Woman In Me, to Universal, and a biopic was on the way with Marc Platt producing and Jon M. Chu directing. Now, we finally have an update. The…
Watch U2 Crash a Family’s Apartment in New Music Video — The single, “Street of Dreams” is from their forthcoming as-yet-untitled studio album
How Hull kept plan to stun Man Utd secret — Hull City boss Sergej Jakirovic kept his plan to topple Manchester United on their Premier League return under wraps for weeks, assistant head coach Dean Holden tells Match of the Day.
Reading & Leeds Replace New Artist Showcase With "Nepo Baby Stage" — When the UK sister festivals Reading and Leeds took place over the weekend, there was one hilariously bleak change in the programming. Since 2007, when the BBC launched its BBC Music Introducing platform…
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9 New Albums You Should Listen to Now: Ariana Grande, the Durutti Column, and More — Stream new releases from Ariana Grande, the Durutti Column, and Arca