These days, it feels like the UK trio FLO are the last straight-up pop girl group left standing, at least outside of the K-pop machine. FLO made their name by reviving the sleek R&B of the late ’90s, and they’re extremely good at it. Their very fun debut album Access All Areas came out in…
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In the ’80s and ’90s, Australian duo Dead Can Dance released a bunch of albums of rapturous, evocative music that drew on traditions from across the world. They were a key part of the 4AD roster, and their music never fit comfortably into any goth, post-punk, art-rock, or dream-pop categories. Dead Can Dance broke up…
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As of 2026, it’s been 40 years since the formation of Black Death, the group that evolved into Norwegian black metal pioneers Darkthrone. Darkthrone are a big enough deal that we published a ranking of their albums in 2013, and they’re prolific enough that they’ve released plenty more albums since then. Soon, they’ll add another…
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Today, we get a new surprise album that’s an actual no-shit surprise. In 2022, Scott Kelly, frontman of the legendary long-running underground metal band Neurosis, admitted to abusing his wife and children and wrote that he’s “100% permanently retired from being a professional musician.” In response, Kelly’s Neurosis bandmates expressed their “disgust and disappointment” with…
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Things are not looking good for CY Fest, the underground punk/hardcore/metal festival that’s supposed to come to Los Angeles in a week and a half. Last week, the Instagram page @Feral_bonobos, which lists itself as “the beginning of a decentralized feminist coalition within the punk scene,” circulated many sexual misconduct allegations against festival promoter Ignacio Rodriguera, who goes by the name Nacho Corrupted. Since then, a number of bands have dropped off of the festival, and its immediate future looks truly dubious.
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Ziemba, aka René Kladzyk, put out her albums True Romantic and Unsubtle Magic back in 2020 and 2021 respectively, and we haven’t heard a peep from her since. In the interim, she moved from El Paso to Los Angeles, and she kept working on music. “The Perfect Rose,” Ziemba’s first new song in five years,…
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The young London rapper fakemink has a whole lot of hype around him, and his music has enough fuzzed-out weirdo energy to justify that. He was one of our favorite new artists of 2025, and he ended the year by playing his first few North American tours, including a set at Tyler, The Creator’s Camp Flog Gnaw Carnival. This year, fakemink released his EP The Boy Who Cried Terrified, and his album Terrified is supposed to arrive in spring. He was already set to play US festivals like Coachella, Rolling Loud, and Lollapalooza. Now, he’s announcing a whole North American tour, followed by runs in the UK and Europe.
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Jump Source, the Montreal electronic duo of producers Patrick Holland and Francis Latreille, recently announced their debut album Fold. Arriving next month, the LP features quite a few familiar names in its stacked list of guests: Two of those are billy woods and the cult favorite Japanese art-pop artist POiSON GiRL FRiEND, who respectively feature…
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Sombr had the unique honr of performing in Dublin just one day before St. Patrick’s Day. To celebrate, the Gen Z pop star brought out Mike and Noel Hogan, members of the Gen Z -beloved Cranberries. With the Hogans on guitar and bass, Sombr — decked out in shamrock green — sang lead on their hit “Linger,” a song that came out 12 years before he was born. Sombr can legally drink in Ireland, so he also unsuccessfully tried to split the G on a pint of Guinness onstage. See clips below.
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