Baltimore is a city full of vacant, decaying houses — places that could be real homes if the building and surrounding neighborhoods were properly rebuilt. That’s the subject of a new documentary called Saving Etting Street. The film, which is currently on the festival circuit, is about the efforts of Shelley Halstead, a carpenter who…

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The LA-based girl group KATSEYE functions as a grand experiment, a chance to see whether the K-pop idol model will work in the US and across the rest of the world. In some ways, it’s a tremendous success. KATSEYE have made a lot of social-media noise, and they’ve got a few genuine viral hits. They…

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PinkPantheress’ Fancy That highlight “Stateside” has been getting a ton of play over the past few weeks since gold medalist figure skater Alysa Liu picked the Zara Larsson remix for her program at the Olympic Exhibition Gala back in February. Pink’s fellow Brit Arlo Parks recently stopped by the BBC Radio 1 live lounge, where she performed her own dreamy rendition of “Stateside” with a trio of synths, a guitar, and bass. The song simply must be sung with a British accent! Parks also performed “2SIDED,” the lead single to her newly-released album Ambiguous Desire. Listen to both songs below.

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When we last heard from Skylar Spence last summer, the artist formerly known as Saint Pepsi was celebrating the 10th anniversary of his 2015 classic Prom King. Now it seems he’s adopted a forward-looking posture, at least partially. Spence shared a new 22-minute mix on YouTube and Bandcamp today called “Almost Butterflies.” It’s a fizzy,…

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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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