We’ve Got A File On You features interviews in which artists share the stories behind the extracurricular activities that dot their careers: acting gigs, guest appearances, random internet ephemera, etc.

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A few weeks ago, Jonny Greenwood and Paul Thomas Anderson were unhappy to learn that some of their work appeared in Melania, Brett Ratner’s recent documentary feature/propaganda piece/expensive corporate favor about current sitting US First Lady Melania Trump. Apparently, the film uses Greenwood’s Oscar-nominates score from the Anderson film Phantom Thread. In a statement, Greenwood and Anderson said that they weren’t consulted on licensing the music and that its use constitutes “a breach of [Greenwood’s] composer agreement.” They asked for the music to be removed. Melania producer Marc Beckman has some thoughts on that.

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Modern Woman release Johnny’s Dreamworld in May, and last month they previewed it with the pensive, sprawling lead single “Dashboard Mary.” Today, the London indie rock quartet switch gears with the new track “Neptune Girl.” “This was built off an image of growing up in England, playing in the roads and fields with a friend who…

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For an instrumental band, Object Hours sure do have a way with words. The Carrboro, NC trio’s Bandcamp bio ends with this sentence: “We try to keep songs under 25 minutes for your sake.” You learn a lot about the band from that line. It suggests they are ambitious, courteous, hilarious. Or how about their…

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Tom Jenkinson, the prolific Essex-based producer better known as Squarepusher, has announced his new album. Kammerkonzert, out this April, is billed as the IDM legend’s foray into orchestral music, and you can hear him play the role of composer on today’s new single “K2 Central.” Despite the presence of strings on Kammerkonzert, Jenkinson maintains that…

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In 2023, Miley Cyrus had a huge chart-topping, Grammy-winning comeback hit with “Flowers,” a song that essentially seemed structured as an answer to Bruno Mars’ “When I Was Your Man,” another big hit from a decade earlier. In 2024, Cyrus was sued over the similarity between the two songs — not by Bruno Mars but by Tempo Music Investments, a company that acquired the songwriting catalog of Mars’ collaborator Philip Lawrence. Cyrus tried to get the lawsuit dismissed back then, and her motion was denied. The case remains ongoing, and Cyrus’ lawyers are now making the argument that nobody can own “commonplace tropes in breakup songs.”

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The Clearwater Swimmers announced their Radio Flyer EP with the tremendous lead single “Landline.” Today’s new track, “Engine”? Also tremendous. The New England/New York band (an unholy alliance, per some) continue to be masters of twinkling slow-burn indie rock on this, which bandleader Sumner Bright bills as a companion to the prior single: The sister…

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Galcher Lustwerk’s deep house is smooth as marble. The Cleveland native — born Chris Sherron — began saxophone lessons in elementary school, then came to DAW techniques as a teenager. As a student at Rhode Island School of Design, he became ingrained in the city’s noisy DIY scene. He paid his dues in the White Material collective with DJ Richard and Young Male. The 2012 originals mix for Blowing Up the Workshop, 100% Galcher, thrust him out of obscurity, yielding a deal with Ghostly International and an Azealia Banks co-sign.

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The xx have been working on the follow-up to 2017’s I See You since 2023, while still pursuing their various solo ventures. But other than some impromptu onstage reunions during Jamie xx solo gigs, they haven’t played a proper show together since the summer of 2018. We knew that was about to change — the band is on the lineup for 2026 mega-fests like Coachella, Kilby Block Party, and Primavera Sound — and now we know exactly when they’ll make their grand return.

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Did you ever get so mad that you punched a wall hard enough to do serious damage to your fist and/or the wall? I have. It’s the worst. In the seconds after that, you come down to earth real quick. You’re still mad about the thing that you were mad about, but your situation is…

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