For several years, Morrissey has publicly complained that no record label will release his new music. Capitol was allegedly supposed to share Bonfire Of Teenagers in 2023, but instead he departed and said the label was trying to wreck his career. In September the former Smiths frontman said labels wouldn’t put out the LP due to the controversial title track, and in November he said it was because free speech is criminalized.

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Lady Gaga had a big hit with Mayhem this year, earning her seventh #1 album and seven Grammy nominations. But for her new concert film, the pop star is turning the clock back to her Joker: Folie à Deux era. Harlequin Live: One Night Only was filmed in September 2024 at LA’s Belasco Theatre in front of a small audience, and its setlist focuses on her covers of jazz standards from the film’s companion album that was released a few days before the show. She had never before performed those song live. Why release it now? “It’s kind of a rebellious project,” Gaga told Variety. “And, by Harlequin standards, Christmas is the perfect time to release something rebellious.” The film, which was shot by Marcell Rév, premiered at the Grammy Museum in LA last week and it’s available to watch on YouTube starting tonight.

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It’s a good day to be Bob Vylan. Months after the British rap-punk duo faced a swarm of backlash for leading their Glastonbury crowd in a “death to the IDF” chant back in June, UK police have announced that they’re ending their criminal investigation against them and “no further action” will be taken.

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Some Lamb Of God fans were likely somewhat disappointed to discover that the band was in fact not performing in Spartanburg, South Carolina last week. The confusion was at the hands of StubHub, who’ve apologized for erroneously promoting a Christian Christmas concert as a concert by the heavy metal veterans.

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Last week Steven Drozd unceremoniously announced that his 30-year-plus tenure with the Flaming Lips had ended, writing on Threads in a since-deleted post: “They’re done with me — but we’re not talking about it. So I’m moving on.” On Sunday, in response to online criticism of frontman Wayne Coyne, Drozd’s ex-bandmate Matthew Duckworth Kirksey addressed the split in a statement shared as an Instagram collaboration with the band. “This idea that Steven was THE musical genius, and Wayne is just some weirdo artist… Its just not true,” it read. Threads devotee Drozd shared his own statement the same day:

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“Can we end my roughest gambling year on a good note??,” Drake asked on Instagram over the weekend while announcing three nights of Kick livestreams with creator BenDaDonnn, his last of 2025. (Over the summer the rapper revealed that he lost $8 million in just a month.)

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Max B, the underground Harlem rap star who broke out with his debut mixtape Million Dollar Baby in 2006, was released from prison a few weeks ago after serving 16 years behind bars for a conviction that was eventually vacated. Last year, Max called into The Joe Budden Podcast to break the good news that he’d…

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It’s been 30 years since Queen last put out a studio album, but the cup that is their very expensive catalog hasn’t runneth empty just yet. Next year they’ll be reissuing their 1974 sophomore album Queen II, but as an early holiday present, they’re sharing one of the deluxe edition’s bonus tracks: a previously unreleased…

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Every year since 2009, the impressively consistent Sondre Lerche has premiered a just-recorded contemporary cover song on Stereogum around Christmastime. (The first one was a take on Animal Collective’s “My Girls.”) Last year the Norwegian musician did a Ryuichi Sakamoto-inspired interpretation of Chappell Roan’s “Good Luck, Babe!,” and today, he’s shared his cover for 2025:…

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New Year’s Day also marks Public Domain Day, when the copyrights for thousands of published works expire, allowing anyone to freely record, perform, or interpolate them. This time around that means musical compositions (music and lyrics, not recordings) copyrighted in 1930, and the list includes classics like “Georgia On My Mind” (music: Hoagy Carmichael, lyrics: Stuart Gorrell), “Dream A Little Dream Of Me” (music: Fabian Andre and Wilbur Schwandt, lyrics: Gus Kahn), “I Got Rhythm (music: George Gershwin, lyrics Ira Gershwin), and the English version of “Just A Gigolo” (music: Leonello Casucci, lyrics: translated by Irving Caesar from Julius Brammer).

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