Gwendolyn “Blondy” Chisolm, a member of the extremely early all-female rap trio the Sequence, has passed away. Billboard reports that Chisolm died in Atlanta on Monday after a brief illness. She was 66. Her death follows that of Angie Stone, the former Sequence member who rapped as Angie B long before becoming a star in the late-’90s neo-soul wave, and that leaves Cheryl “The Pearl” Cook as the sole surviving member of the Sequence.

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We know David Eugene Edwards as the mythic, grizzled frontman of the dark, gothic country-rock bands 16 Horespower and Wovenhand. Three years ago, Edwards released Hyacinth, the first album to come out under his own name. Next month, he’ll follow it with a new one called Mercurial Silence. It might be mercurial, but it won’t…

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Sturgill Simpson wants to clear something up — and no, it’s not the origins of his teenage rap video that just hit the internet.

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proun are an Austin trio who put a dreamy, emo-folk spin on classic alternative rock. The band started as the solo project of singer/guitarist Jamie Weed, and after putting out a couple of EPs in the past few years and welcoming bassist Dante Zatto and drummer/engineer Alex Peterson into the fold, their debut album Maybe…

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If you know anything about the past few years in the Chattanooga rapper Isaiah Rashad’s life, then you might be surprised to learn that he’s got a new album on the way. You will not, however, be surprised to learn that the album is called It’s Been Awful. That guy has been through it.

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Did you hear the lead single from the new Slippers album Slippers 08? It was called “Wants For Everyone,” and it ruled. So does “Fool In Your Room,” the new Slippers track out today. This anxious indie-pop jangler finds Madeline Babuka Black lamenting her circumstances via lyrics like “I can’t find my wallet or keys/…

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The members of the San Francisco shoegaze trio Midrift were 16 and 17 years old when they blew up with the viral hits “Twin Flames” and “unrequited.” They were children! They’re a couple of years older now, which means they’re still crazy young, and they’ve become one of the bigger shoegaze-revival bands out there. They’re…

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Warning: new Warning album incoming. The influential UK doom metal band will return in June with Rituals Of Shame, their first release since 2006’s standard-bearing Watching From A Distance, a towering work that paved the way for latter greats like Pallbearer. Lead single “Stations” is out now. It plays like a hefty, funereal power ballad,…

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Jon Spencer is currently a man without a Blues Explosion, but that won’t stop him from rocking out as if he still had a Blues Explosion behind him. (The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion haven’t been active since 2016, so he’s been a man with no Blues Explosion for a decade.) Spencer released a solo album…

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Nottingham’s No Peeling play post-punk in the fun way, not the dour way. They released their self-titled debut EP last year, and in a few weeks they’ll be back with EP2. Lead single “Stationery” keeps up the band’s penchant for short bursts of neon cartoon energy. It sounds like it’s reflecting off a funhouse mirror…

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