Remember Control Top? God, that band ruled. Control Top came ripping out of Philadelphia’s DIY punk underground in 2018, and they made some really great songs. “Type A“? “Chain Reaction“? Bangers! Control Top’s Covert Contracts album came out in 2019, and they were still playing shows as recently as 2024, but I guess they broke…
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“It’s quite funny talking about this,” Getdown Services’ Josh Law jokes. “Like, if you overheard this conversation, you’d think we’d made fucking Kid A.” Sitting beside bandmate Ben Sadler on one side of a video chat, Law is explaining the comedic grey area inhabited by their forthcoming album Massive Champion, announced today with the release…
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We named Westside Cowboy one of the Best New Artists Of 2025, not long after the Manchester seven-piece released their debut EP This Better Be Something Great and just before they released their second EP So Much Country ‘Till We Get There. Their hot streak continues with today’s announcement of Westside Cowboy’s debut album It Goes On,…
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As legend has it, Olivia Osby and Avsha Weinberg met in high school math class, where Weinberg would sneak glances at Osby’s laptop to see what music she was bumping. After bonding over indie acts like the Microphones and Alex G, the duo formed Lowertown in Atlanta in 2018. They soon relocated to New York and quickly became a staple of the indie rock scene. Last year I caught a surprise rooftop set they did on the Fourth of July, enmeshed in a mosh of sweat and vape smoke under a sky of sporadic fireworks before the event was shut down by cops.
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Reality Awaits, the first new album from the Strokes in six years, is due out next month. Early singles “Going Shopping” and “Falling Out Of Love” have set off fiery debates within the fan base, partially because of Julian Casablancas’ choice to sing through Auto-Tune. I don’t object to Auto-Tune any more than I object to distortion pedals, but the new songs have not necessarily bolstered my confidence about Reality Awaits.
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Aleshea Harris initially wrote IS GOD IS as a stage play that premiered in 2018. Since then, it’s been adapted into her feature directorial debut, which premiered last Friday. Meanwhile, art-pop artist Moses Sumney dabbled in acting, playing supporting roles in projects like Ti West’s MaXXXine and the Weeknd’s HBO series The Idol. Lately, Sumney has been…
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Before releasing her debut album Swimming Towards The Sand last fall, Toronto’s Rachel Bobbitt could always be counted on to post some lovely new song to her Bandcamp every few months. Today, she’s done it again. “Where Do You Want To Be?” is an easygoing yet vaguely mournful track that moves at a measured pace.…
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Snag, DIY screamo warriors from Milwaukee, sound like the world collapsing all around you. Their music feels that way, too. It’s all about the anxiety of living in the end times, expressed with vivid and visceral immediacy. After scrambling around in the underground for many years, Snag have hooked up with the Converge-affiliated label Deathwish,…
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When Mitski released her stunning new album Nothing’s About To Happen To Me in February, some fans noticed the lyrics to “Rules” feature the numerical sequence “6-7.” Yes, those numbers arrive when Mitski is literally counting up to 11, but any mention of “6” and “7” together is bound to spark memories of last year’s endlessly popular meme/verbal compulsion, in which “6-7” became a meaningless, all-consuming refrain among young people. Thus, “Rules” has been gaining attention on TikTok in recent weeks, leading up to one concertgoer shouting the phrase indiscriminately during a recent Mitski tour stop.
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Spain’s High Court has acquitted Shakira of tax fraud, ordering the government to reimburse her for a wrongly imposed 2021 fine equalling over $64 million. The ruling is in regards to a case alleging that Shakira had spent more than 183 days in Spain in 2011 — the minimum number of days required to be considered a tax resident of the country — without paying taxes.
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