For a while now, Madonna has been teasing Confessions On A Dance Floor 2 — the sequel to her 2005 album — and buzz around it has only increased since caught her apparently filming a big scale music video earlier this month. Meanwhile William Orbit, the main producer and co-writer of Madonna’s 1998 smash Ray Of Light, says she’s been ignoring his proposals to make a Ray Of Light 2.

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The LA-based artist Kelsey Lu, a classically trained cellist with a tremendous sense of vision, released her debut album Blood back in 2019. Since then, she’s scored a couple of films and collaborated with people like Yves Tumor, Mykki Blanco, and Jamie xx. Now, she’s signed with Dirty Hit, and her new album So Help…

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Thursday might’ve prayed, prayed every single day, to avoid any situation where they’d have to cover the 4 Non Blondes song “What’s Up,” but those prayers did not come true. The music lessons app Musora has a video series where they challenge bands to come into the studio and figure out how to cover songs that fall far outside their comfort zones. Past hits include jazz combo Generation Y covering Nirvana, folk-pop duo Fionn covering System Of A Down, and Norwegian prog-metallers Leprous covering a-ha. Now, it’s Thursday doing 4 Non Blondes’ unkillable 1993 smash.

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Olympia’s Some Velvet Sidewalk made a lot of noise between the years of 1987 and 1997. Founded by Al Larsen on vocals and guitar and the late Robert Christie on drums, the DIY band put out a bunch of lo-fi rock albums on K Records, at times recruiting associates like future Bikini Kill co-founders Tobi…

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Goose. Geese. Now, Wildgoose. None of these musicians sound the same, but they are all magical in their own distinct way. The latter, lo-fi folk musician Natalie Wildgoose, is the latest to add to the growing fowl-rock canon. Her new single “River Days” is simply gorgeous. I hear a bit of Julia Jacklin and Adrianne…

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Last month DJ Seinfeld shared the ARY-featuring “Of Joy,” a sweet dance floor jam that the Malmö-based producer said was the first song he wrote for “an upcoming new project, which has also been a work in progress for a long time.” Now, that new project is on the horizon: It’s a full album called…

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Last November, Kehlani locked in her first Top 10 hit with the single “Folded.” Last month, the song won her two Grammys, one for Best R&B Song and one for Best R&B Performance. She’s not letting that momentum fade into the ether: Today she announced her new self-titled album is out next month via Atlantic Records.

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In 1996, the Butthole Surfers hit the big time. For years, they’d been known as the biggest freaks on the American underground rock circuit, and this was during a time when the American underground rock circuit was not exactly light on freaks. (The Replacements were reportedly scared of them.) After their long rampage, the Buttholes…

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Last year, promoter Ignacio Rodriguera, who goes by the name Nacho Corrupted, announced plans for the rescheduled version of CY Fest, a Los Angeles punk festival that was originally supposed to take place in 2025. The 2026 CY Fest, scheduled to come to the Belasco later this month, has a truly impressive lineup, with punk, hardcore, and metal underground legends like the Subhumans, Eyehategod, Pig Destroyer, and Dropdead playing alongside newer bands like Big Boy, Rotting Out, and Mess. But an online feminist group has circulated a number of sexual misconduct allegations against Rodriguera, and some bands have dropped off the CY Fest lineup.

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