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Gabriel Kahane is back, and he's not slowing down. This year already gave us Elevator Songs, that theatrical high-concept stunner he built with Roomful Of Teeth, and now the Portland composer is…
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Beach House just dropped "Dusky," the first single from their upcoming record, and it's a stunner. The Baltimore duo have always known how to build a haze.
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Chrissie Hynde just handed out a rare compliment. The Pretenders frontwoman, patron saint of the perfectly delivered eye-roll, isn't known for gushing about much of anything: she's taken aim at…
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Primavera Sound just dropped its 2027 lineup, and the Barcelona heavyweight is back at Parc del Fòrum from June 3-5. Doechii, Phoebe Bridgers, and Fontaines D.C. top the poster.
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Knifeplay are back, and the wait is finally over. The Philadelphia dream-rock crew led by TJ Strohmer announce their new LP, What Is Truth?, and they're sharing lead track "Love Song" to mark the…
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L7 have shared a new track called "Loma Linda," and it arrives loaded with weight. The band lost bassist Jennifer Finch in July, days after she revealed a brain cancer diagnosis. She was 59.
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Teens In Trouble are back with "I Do," and Lizzie Killian wastes zero time getting to the point.
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Computerwife is back with another taste of Born From A Wish. The new track is called "You Didn't Know," and it's a shift from what came before.
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L7 are hitting the road again, and they've got Janis Tanaka stepping in on bass. She replaces the late Jennifer Finch for the aptly named Last Hurrah Tour, a run that feels heavy and triumphant all…
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Zach Bryan just made a statement. On Friday, October 2, the country star took the stage at Gillette Stadium wearing a "Free Palestine" shirt, and the location is the whole point.
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Charli XCX headlined night one of Austin City Limits on Friday (Oct. 2), and she showed up with a surprise. That's just her move now.
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Gripper are coming for your eardrums. The Philly crew, stacked with members of Teenage Halloween, Latewaves, Nylon, and Street City Surf, deals in trebly, urgent garage-punk that hits fast and leaves…
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Shane Parish just surprise dropped a new album, and the title says it all: Dental Work, out today to help pay for, you guessed it, dental work. The six-string wizard has been on a tear lately.
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Squelette are back, and their new EP Soir d'Orage is an absolute stunner. Here's the thing: France has built its own take on oi, that chant-along street-punk sound you'd swear was born in Britain.
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Ogbert The Nerd are back, and they brought a ripper. Today the New Jersey emo screamers dropped "Stapler," their first new track since the surprise drop of 2024's What You Want.
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Bucket are back, and the Dublin trio sound meaner than ever. Cian Dahdouh, Emmet McNamee, and Korey O'Bryne have shared "Strung Out," a new single that snarls and bites from the first second.
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Fog Lake is back. Aaron Powell, the Newfoundland-raised, Montreal-based songwriter behind the project, has announced his seventh album Hollowbody, due out next month.
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The Rolling Stones aren't done with Foreign Tongues yet. The album dropped in July, another entry in a late-career run that keeps outclassing what anyone expects from a band this deep in.
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brakence is back, and he's gearing up for a full-length. The Columbus digicore maverick announced his new album marrow on Tuesday, dropping it three weeks from now.
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Secrecy are announcing their debut EP, and the name alone tells you everything. It nods to the Germs' "What We Do Is Secret," that whole hidden underground where outsiders get the side-eye. Fitting.
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DIIV just dropped "Trillions," and the video is a straight-up flex. The band suits up, lounges around lavish mansions, fans themselves with stacks of crisp twenties, and reads fictional magazine…
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Ryan Hemsworth is back, and he just signed to Topshelf Records. The producer who built his name on 2013's Guilt Trips and all those genre-hopping remixes is gearing up for a new album called…
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Fresh drops hit the queue this week, and the spread is wide. Greg Freeman is back, building on the quiet-loud dynamics that made 2022's "I Looked Out" such a sleeper gem.
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Peter Gabriel is finally pulling the full picture into focus. The legendary voice behind So and Us opened the year with o\i, and this has been anything but a standard rollout.
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