Flying Lotus Shares New Captain Murphy Song "Mudhole": Listen — Look who’s back! Well, no, that’s not quite right. Captain Murphy can’t really be “back” because he’s not a real person. He’s the rap alter-ego for Flying Lotus, the visionary producer who has continued making music
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Katy Perry & Chief Keef Squash Beef, Drop "Legendary Lovers" Remix — Hey, remember when Katy Perry and Chief Keef had beef with each other? No? You have no memory of such a thing ever occurring, or any frame of reference on how such a thing might occur? Well, it did. Sort of. “Be

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Weezer Launch The Gold Album With Wednesday Collaboration — Rivers Cuomo and Karly Hartzman duet on “We Might as Well Be Strangers”
Porch Light Share New Single "Under": Listen — Porch Light, the young Minneapolis rock band, probably have a bone to pick with Noah Kahan. Type their band name into any DSP and you’re greeted with a song from Kahan’s recent blockbuster The Great Divide, a problem they weren’t…
Obama Presidential Center Opens With Bruce Springsteen, U2, Stevie Wonder, Eddie Vedder, & More — The vast, sprawling $850 million edifice known as the Barack Obama Presidential Center — it’s not a library, though it has a library — has been in the works for more than a decade,…
Lucy Dacus Shares Blaze Foley Cover "Clay Pigeons": Listen — The Texan outlaw country singer Blaze Foley was never a big name during his lifetime, but his legend has grown since he was shot dead in 1989 at the age of 39. Foley has been the subject of tribute songs like Lucinda…
Album Of The Week: Mallory Hawk 'Chinook' — Who needs a style when you’ve got the songs? We’re living in a musical landscape mediated by algorithmic overlords, in which listeners often seek to be soothed by (possibly evil) ambient tones, burrow deeper into (often frictionless)…
Zach Bryan Shares New Song "Breakfast In Bed": Listen — Prolific country-rock megastar Zach Bryan loves to drop a new track without warning or context. Sometimes, that music never even appears on streaming services. Sometimes, it’s just a video of him playing an unreleased song a
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Emily Robb & The ER Band Share New Single "All Around The Street Corners": Listen — Philly guitar deity Emily Robb expanded into a wide range of sounds for January’s score to The Space Between Attack And Decay, including full-band rock ‘n’ roll. She keeps that train rolling on he
Hovvdy Share New Single "Blast": Listen — I don’t think of Hovvdy as a band where the singer holds a microphone, which is to say I don’t think of core duo Will Taylor and Charlie Martin as frontmen in the classic sense. The band’s music feels too insular and introverted for that
SZA Warns AI Is Exploiting Black Artists, Calls Out Diplo — Last week the Atlantic posted an upsetting report about datasets of music that are being used to train AI. If they weren’t already aware, major artists from Bad Bunny to Nirvana are part of it. The Atlantic identified…
Martha Skye Murphy & Roy Montgomery Announce New Album 'Nebular': Hear "Cloudburst" — In 2024, London-based experimental singer-songwriter Martha Skye Murphy released her riveting debut album Um, which featured composer and guitarist Roy Montgomery on the beautiful single…
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Los Skeepers Share New Single "NADA MÁS+": Listen — There’s a new boyband in town. Los Skeepers (Juan Andrés Paiz, Alex Olivares, Joaquín Flores, Juan Pablo Nájera, Danniel Díaz Contreras, and Jeremy Sandoval) formed in Guatemala City and released their debut single…
Bluesky launches group chats, as company shifts focus to community features | TechCrunch — Bluesky's latest feature is group chats, arriving amid a shift in focus on building features for smaller communities.
Amanda Seyfried Reveals Viral Dulcimer Performance Stemmed From A Shelved Joni Mitchell Movie — Last year, Amanda Seyfried went viral for her brief cover of Joni Mitchell’s “California” on the dulcimer, which left Jimmy Fallon, his audience, and the entire internet stunned. Now,
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Katy Perry Acquires Demonic Scorpion Tail In "Watch It Burn" Video — Katy Perry is burning it all down on her new single, aptly titled “Watch It Burn.” You might be wondering how she is doing that — maybe with some matches or a Molotov cocktail? Nope. She’s using her newly…
Civilians flee as Somali troops and opposition-allied militias trade fire in Mogadishu — Violence flares before protests on Thursday over president’s decision to remain in office after his term expired
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Steve Lacy Seemingly Spoils 'Spider-Man: Brand New Day' On Red Carpet Livestream — WARNING: The following post may contain spoilers about Spider-Man: Brand New Day. Do not read it if you wish to remain unspoiled. Spider-Man: Brand New Day, the fourth Spider-Man film to star Tom…
Listen to Rivers Cuomo Cover Whitney Houston, Outkast, Dolly Parton, and More — A series of 15 covers popped up without warning on Cuomo’s YouTube page over the weekend
Previously Unknown Velvet Underground Song Revealed In New Book — Author Richie Unterberger’s new Velvet Underground history Do What You Fear The Most is out this week. It surely contains many superb factoids, but one in particular will be of special interest to VU heads. Ryan…
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Whitmer Thomas Shares New Song “Candy Corn” With Video Starring Joe Pera & Carmen Christopher — Whitmer Thomas is perhaps best known as an actor-comedian, but he’s keeping the ball rolling with his singer-songwriter career. The Alabama native is following up last year’s Tilt EP…
Red Hot Chili Peppers Sell Music Catalog to Warner for $300 Million — The deal includes the band’s entire recorded output, including their 13 studio albums
Elvis Costello Announces First-Ever 49th Anniversary Box Set (Probably) — We don’t see a lot of people celebrating the 49th anniversary of some momentous achievement. For that matter, we don’t see a lot of 48th or 47th anniversary galas, either. People tend to like nice, round…
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No Joy Announces Big Life, Big Leaf EP, Shares Title Track — Jasamine White-Gluz reunited with Fire-Toolz’s Angel Marcloid for the companion to last year’s Bugland
Thom Yorke Talks New Solo Album, Next Radiohead Tour, Music Industry Arseholes — Thom Yorke was honored at Thursday night’s Ivor Novello Awards, taking the podium after an introduction by surprise presenter Harry Styles, who called Radiohead his favorite band and announced he los
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Tinashe Knows Fame Is “Too Easy” on New Song — Co-produced by Kimj and Zack Sekoff, the single is her first original material in two years
Dovetail Share New Song "if you let me (nsii)": Listen — Almost a year ago, Dovetail released a very beautiful track called “raining here, too.” In the fall, I caught them at New York’s beloved Night Club 101 opening for Ken Park; the two Vassar students wore angel wings on…
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Rubio’s bypass plan: Can the world escape the Strait of Hormuz chokepoint? — Experts warn that Marco Rubio's Hormuz bypass plan is hindered by pipeline limits and severe Red Sea threats.
Loukeman Readies Fall Tour — Luke Fenton will make stops in North America and Europe
My Stepson’s Hateful Views Are Damaging My Business. What Should I Do? — I would love to bar this person from our home, but I cannot.
PUP Share New Song "If This Is It," Stop-Motion "Concrete" Video — The reliably energized Toronto pop-punkers PUP have a long history of sick-ass videos, and they add to it today. It’s been about a year since PUP released their album Who Will Look After The Dogs?, and it…
Neil Young Covers Series 'Heart Of Gold' Expands To Three Volumes — Neil Young deserves more than one tribute album. He has written too many great songs and made too much of an impact, and one compilations of Neil Young covers won’t do the trick, no matter how impressive it may…
Ipswich sign midfielder Florentino from Burnley — Newly promoted Ipswich Town complete the signing of Portuguese midfielder Florentino Luis from Burnley for an undisclosed fee.
The Cradle Announce New Album 'Get Yourself A Man & Other Love Songs': Hear "Human Nature" — Last year, Paco Cathcart released their first album under their name after over 50 albums as the Cradle. But now the singer-songwriter is back to using the moniker to announce a new LP…
Bedouine Shares New Single "One Thing Right": Listen — We are mere hours from Neon Summer Skin, the first new Bedouine album in five years. That’s fantastic news. Azniv Korkejian further ramped up our excitement with the excellent singles “Long Way To Fall,” “Always On Time,” and
J Mascis Makes Opry Debut — Last week, John R. Miller’s new alt-country LP The Great Unknowing (recorded at Leon Russell’s legendary Church Studio in Tulsa) came out digitally. The acclaimed Appalachian musician returned to the Grand Ole Opry last night and introduced a…
OpenAI announces solutions to 10 longstanding maths problems — Ten conundrums that stumped human mathematicians for years have been cracked by OpenAI's Astra model, continuing a hot streak of AI-driven breakthroughs that are shaking up the field
US Uses Euros to Buy Yen to Avoid Weaker Dollar, Strategists Say — The US Treasury may be using euros rather than dollars to fund its yen purchases to avoid weakening its own currency and casting doubt on its strong greenback policy, according to strategists.
Charli XCX Shares New Song "Camera": Listen — We have only a few more days until the release of Charli XCX’s highly anticipated Brat followup Music, Fashion, Film. So far the pop star has shared the singles “Rock Music,” “SS26,” and “Wink Wink,” along with the B-sides “I Keep…
BabyChiefDoIt Is Ready For His "Big One" — Read our interview with the young Chicago drill star. Plus: The best rap tracks of the month.
Monty Roberts, who trained horses through trust, dies at 91 — The internationally acclaimed horseman defied the conventional method of breaking horses and developed his own gentler approach — based on horses' non-verbal language. Roberts spoke with <em>Fresh Air</em> in 1997.
Dawn Richard Announces New Album 'Creole Culture': Hear "Enough" — The arty R&B explorer Dawn Richard has gone down many fascinating paths over the years, and she has radiated strength through all of it, whether testifying against Sean Combs or making experimental records with…
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