Today is fakemink’s 21st birthday, and he’s celebrating with a new EP. It’s called The Boy Who Cried Terrified, and according to the UK rapper’s Tumblr, it serves as the “teaser project” for his imminent LP Terrified. The seven-track EP includes yesterday’s single “fml .,” which samples Burial’s “Rival Dealer”; per Genius, that song also…

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Last year, the great punk band Ekko Astral founded the DIY trans-rights music festival known as Liberation Weekend and held the first installment in their Washington, DC hometown. It looked awesome. This year, trans rights and Washington, DC are still under attack from the Trump administration, and the festival feels more urgent than ever. Thankfully, it’s coming back for a second year, and its lineup seriously kicks ass.

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Throughout the 2020s, Olive Ardizoni and Michael Flanagan have been making new-age-y “eco-ambient” music about environmental distress under the name Green-House. The project, which began as Ardizoni’s solo venture, has already yielded two full-length albums, and a third is on the way. Hinterlands drops in March via Green-House’s new label home, Ghostly International. As beloved…

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Look at that fucking cover art! Wow. I have seen a lot of dog-ugly album covers in my many, many years on this planet, and it takes a lot for me to really notice another one. This one did it. The cover art for Pain Travels, the first full-length from the Leeds band Love Rarely,…

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Nearly a year ago, Jason Isbell released his stripped-down post-divorce album Foxes In The Snow. The album earned him three Grammy nominations, and with the ceremony looming in Los Angeles this Sunday, Isbell is in town to promote it with a performance on Jimmy Kimmel Live.

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The late Arthur Russell didn’t release his heart-rendingly gorgeous song “I Couldn’t Say It To Your Face” during his lifetime. Russell died of complications from AIDS in 1992, and he achieved cult-hero status thanks to a series of reissues of his music years later. “I Couldn’t Say It To Your Face” finally came out on…

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Charli XCX’s Brat mockumentary The Moment just premiered at Sundance Film Festival. It stars Charli alongside many familiar faces like Kylie Jenner, Rachel Sennott, Rosanna Arquette, Alexander Skarsgård, Kate Berlant, Jamie Demetriou, Hailey Benton Gates, and Charli’s frequent off-screen collaborator A. G. Cook, who also did The Moment‘s soundtrack — a song from it called…

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Philip Glass and Renée Fleming are the latest artists to cancel their events at the John F. Kennedy Center For The Arts.

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Right now, we’re looking at a whole ton of young bands who make Deftones-style guitar-churn music with heavy riffs and vulnerable vocals. Chicago emo-grungers Footballhead definitely fit that mold, and they take the late-’90s thing further than most. Consider: They shot their new video in what appears to be a high-school gym, and frontman Ryan…

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A certain strain of twangy, countrified indie rock has gotten a whole lot of attention over the past few years, and it’s not a uniquely American phenomenon. Consider the case of the prolific Norwich, UK band Brown Horse, who have only been around for a few years but who have already released two albums, 2024’s…

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