Well, this is all getting very confusing. Yesterday, the lineup for the Great American State Fair was announced, with acts like Milli Vanilli, Morris Day And The Time, C+C Music Factory, Young MC, Bret Michaels, Flo Rida, and more on the bill to celebrate 250 years of the USA. Shortly after, Morris Day And The Time dropped off, saying he wouldn’t be performing despite the “rumor.” Young MC promptly followed suit. Now, Milli Vanilli reportedly won’t be appearing either, according to a member who is not Fab Morvan.

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Terrible news: The three members of the Japanese action comic punk band Peelander-Z have suffered critical injuries after a semi-truck rear-ended their tour van in Albuquerque last Monday (May 18). They’re currently receiving treatment in an intensive care unit for broken bones, fractured vertebrae, broken ribs, and other serious traumas.

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You don’t have to be a conspiracy theorist to admit that you’ve encountered some lizard people in your life. Maybe they’re not actual lizards, cold-blooded with detachable tails, but simply greasy, soul-sucking humans. That’s what Band To Watch alums Man/Woman/Chainsaw warn us about on their new single “Goddamn, Lizard Man!” The proggy PSA, the latest…

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“I close my eyes only for a moment, then that moment’s gone. All my dreams pass before my eyes with curiosity. Dust in the wind. All they are is dust in the wind.” Kerry Livgren of the band Kansas wrote those profound words in 1977, and they have not blown away like dust in the…

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Last fall, alt-pop singer d4vd made lots of headlines when a dead body later identified as 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez was found in his Tesla. It wasn’t until last month that he was arrested and charged with murder, but at the time the story took the internet by storm as users were connecting the dots between 20-year-old David Anthony Burke and Hernandez. Now, NBC reports that a Google software engineer has been charged with insider trading after using confidential company information to make over $1.2 million on Polymarket, wagering that d4vd would be Google’s most-searched person of 2025.

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When not stealing valor from seven-footers like Victor Wembanyama and our Tom Breihan, the so-called Tallest Man On Earth continues to release lovely user-friendly folk-rock. Today the Swede born Kristian Matsson resumes that pursuit with the release of “Colors,” his first new song in three years. This song is really working for me. “I need…

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Jesus Is The Path To Heaven is a musical trio led by singer-songwriter Jordan Hoban alongside bandmates Thommy Underhill and Zach Jordan. A band name like that one leads me to expect music loaded with spiritual and emotional tension, and on their new single out today, the band delivers on the implied promise. I don’t…

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For the past two years, Lauren Morgan, formerly of the TikTok-viral indie band SALES, has been releasing excellent indie-pop under the name Lorg. Maybe you caught “Brandy” or the Nightlands collab “Crossroads,” and maybe your entrypoint is “Marathonia.” Out today, the song flows with an irresistible momentum, matching languid chillwavey guitar strums with a lo-fi…

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Lindsay Minton and Mercy Harper are members of the Houston emo band Football, etc., and they’re also in Hew, a relatively new band that’s set to release their debut album Your Version this summer. We’ve already posted the title track, and now they’ve followed it with the stormy, soaring rocker “Reconciliation.” I think this song…

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This summer the proud nation known as the United States Of America will officially celebrate its 250th birthday. Donald Trump is doing his very best to turn this into a celebration of his own magnificence, and the proceedings will include a UFC event on the White House lawn and a grand prix race in Washington, DC, a city not exactly built for automotive speed. The Freedom 250 people have also put together the Great American State Fair, a series of concerts on the National Mall that will attempt to make America 1990 again.

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