Last year, the Waterboys released Life, Death And Dennis Hopper, 25 songs about the late Hollywood icon featuring Bruce Springsteen, Fiona Apple, Steve Earle, and more. The longstanding project of Mike Scott returned last month with a new b-sides LP containing 16 more songs about Dennis Hopper, and it had R. Crumb-ripoff AI-generated cover art. One of the singles also came with an AI-generated music video, and backlash ensued.

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Three days into January, Morrissey’s 2026 started with the first slate of what promise to be many show cancellations this year, as has become the former Smiths singer’s custom. But it seemed like things were actually picking up for Moz this time. After years of scrapped gigs and aborted album launches, this month he’s actually managed to share the lead single from new LP Make-Up Is A Lie and gotten back onstage. Now, the sad Morrissey news has resumed.

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On her new single “Nothing Comes Easy,” folk artist Joy Oladokun is here to remind us that we are human and getting hurt is a integral part of that. It’s normal. It will pass. We have time, and time heals all. “Don’t take it on you/ It’s just the cold truth,” she sings, embodying a…

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The LA band Host Family makes a noisy version of indie pop that sounds like every cool underground band from the ’80s put together. Their music probably made a lot of sense to audiences when they performed around town with acts like bar italia, Feeble Little Horse, and Mo Dotti. Host Family released their debut…

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“When It’s Cold I’d Like To Die” dates all the way back to before Moby became a TRL-grade household name with Play. The ballad, from the producer’s 1995 album Everything Is Wrong, has experienced a renaissance over the past decade due to its inclusion in multiple scenes from Stranger Things. “It’s reaching hundreds of millions…

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Meet Organ Tapes, the enticing project of London’s Timothy Zha. He’s been putting out music since 2013, and the accompanying visuals are as captivating as the sounds. This is true of “Gun To The World,” his new single out today. It comes with a music video that feels like an evocative short film at only a…

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John Darnielle is never not writing and recording new songs. Darnielle’s Mountain Goats have now released 23 official albums; their last one, Through This Fire Across From Peter Balkan, came out just a couple of months ago. Now, they’ve got another new song. In a Bandcamp-alert email. Darnielle says that the band wasn’t planning on…

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Hey. it’s another shoegaze band! San Diego four-piece Sparkler have been putting out music since 2020, and they’re about to follow their 2023 debut Big Sonic Chill with a new album called Glidewinder. They recorded the LP over two busy, experiment-heavy weekends. I don’t know their previous work, but Glidewinder lead single “Postal” has a…

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Big-deal pop stars love announcing their returns and unveiling their new albums at the beginning of the year, and now we’ve got another one. Vaguely feline clothes-horse heartthrob Harry Styles is coming back on March 6 with a new LP called Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally, a frankly very irritating title. (That’s six words, one period, and one comma. I am not looking forward to typing it a bunch of times.)

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Hunky actor Joe Keery was a member of the band Post Animal when he was cast as Steve Harrington on Stranger Things in 2016. Since 2019, Keery has been making music under the name Djo. He released his song “End Of Beginning” in 2022, and it became a viral hit and reached the Hot 100 two years later. (My kids informed me that the track, released independently on AWAL, was pretty much the only song on TikTok during the Universal ban.) In the wake of the Stranger Things finale, “End Of Beginning” is suddenly more popular than ever, even though it wasn’t actually featured in the episode.

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