In 2023, Foo Fighters brought in rock veteran Josh Freese as their new drummer, replacing the late Taylor Hawkins. Two years later, the band fired Freese and hired Ilan Rubin away from the mid-tour Nine Inch Nails. NIN simply responded by bringing in Freese, who’d previously been in the band for a stint, thus completing the great 2025 drummer swap. Since then, Freese has expressed confusion over the firing while admitting that Foo Fighters’ music “wasn’t music that I really resonated with.” Now, Dave Grohl has finally addressed the firing for the first time.

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Pearly Drops have not lost steam. Last year producer-duo Sandra Tervonen and Juuso Malin released their latest album The Voices Are Coming Back and they’re already back with a new single “Heaven.” It sounds like plush, saccharine synth-pop, but I think there’s something a bit more sinister going on underneath the surface. “You can run…

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Avalon Emerson has been leading up to the release of Written Into Changes, her upcoming album with her recently revived project the Charm, with the very good singles “Jupiter And Mars” and “Eden.” Emerson began working on the record after moving from Berlin to upstate New York, and that move inspired today’s new single, which…

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Last November, Rostam teased a new era. His new album American Stories, the follow-up to 2021’s Changephobia, is coming out sometime this year. But before he’s moving forward, he’s looking back. Today the former Vampire Weekend member officially shared the original version of “Campus,” from VW’s 2008 self-titled debut album. (We posted about it back…

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Right now, two different Charli XCX-related movies are playing in multiplexes. Last week, she released her album Wuthering Heights, the soundtrack for the film of the same title. She’s also got her Brat mockumentary The Moment, which is in the midst of a big European rollout. While promoting The Moment in Berlin, Charli pissed off some fans by attending an afterparty that was apparently organized by a Russian woman with ties to the Putin regime and the invasion of Ukraine.

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Marisa Shirar is the lead singer for the heavy shoegaze band Fleshwater, and those guys are doing great for themselves right now. Last year, Fleshwater released their sophomore album 2000: In Search Of The Endless Sky, and I saw them headline an extremely sick show with Chat Pile and Balmora. Since then, my daughter has…

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A few months ago, the Pernice Brothers frontman Joe Pernice shared his cover of Aimee Mann’s Magnolia soundtrack classic “Save Me.” Now, Pernice has a new Aimee Mann duet of his own. This spring Pernice will release his new solo album Sunny, I Was Wrong. Pernice recorded the LP with a backing band that includes…

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Right now, veteran Boston bruisers the Dropkick Murphys are out on their annual St. Patrick’s Day tour, and they’ve brought along Haywire, the fast-rising hardcore band from the same city. It’s a truly inspired pairing, and it feels even more obvious now that the two bands are making music together. If you go to one…

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U2 are one of the biggest bands and one of the biggest brands in rock ‘n’ roll history, but it’s been more than eight years since the widely ignored Songs Of Experience, their last album of new music. Since then, they’ve done a lot of work to maintain their legacy. The band opened the Sphere.…

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Chris Rosenau is a musician who’s been working since the ’90s and who’s been in bands like Collections Of Colonies Of Bees and Volcano Choir. Nick Sanborn is the non-singing half of Sylvan Esso, and he’s been in groups like Megafaun and Made Of Oak. At the Eaux Claires Festival in 2015, Rosenau and Sanborn…

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