The 2026 BRIT Awards, the UK’s equivalent to the Grammys, will take place this Saturday at Manchester’s Co-op Live, but they’ve already revealed one winner. PinkPantheress, the wildly influential singer, songwriter, and producer and Alysa Liu inspiration will be honored as Producer Of The Year. We’re again reminded that she is not the weakest link.

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The prolific old-school country artist Charley Crockett already has 15 studio albums to his name, and he’s about to add one more to that total. Less than a year ago, Crockett released Dollar A Day, the second LP in his Shooter Jennings-produced Sagebrush Trilogy. This spring, he’ll finish out that trilogy with the release of a 20-track opus called Age Of The Ram. On his Substack, Crockett has written a whole explainer about the concept behind this LP:

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Heather The Jerk is Heather Sawyer, a Madison-based garage rocker and member of bands like the Hussy and Proud Parents. MRR described her late 2024 cassette Not Very Motorcycle as bedroom pop-punk, which at least gets you in the ballpark for new tape Scroll If You Love Devil. The tracklist compiles 10 short, sweet, scrappy…

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On Friday, Philadelphia shoegaze institution Nothing will release their new album A Short History Of Decay, which pushed the band’s sound in a bunch of different directions. This time around, frontman Nicky Palermo has put together a lineup that includes Cloakroom’s Doyle Martin and Cam Smith, Best Coast’s Bobb Bruno, and Manslaughter 777’s Zachary Jones.…

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Guatemalan-born, Montreal-based Santiago Castillo releases indie-electronic music under the name Hockitay. New single “over/over” is our first preview of a forthcoming EP. In a recent interview with The Line Of Best Fit, he says this tune is designed for winter, so if you’re snowed in on the East Coast today, you might want to queue…

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Olympic figure skater Alysa Liu has been making history. On Thursday (Feb. 19) the 20-year-old won America’s first gold medal in the Winter Olympics’ women’s free skating event since 2002. And she’s got a second gold for the team event. In interviews, she’s been expressing her love for PinkPantheress, and tonight she skated to the Zara Larsson remix of “Stateside” at the Olympic figure skating Exhibition Gala at the Milano Ice Skating Arena.

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Last year, Tulsa’s Bob Dylan Center presented a 50th anniversary concert for Bob Dylan’s Blood On The Tracks at Cain’s Ballroom. Last night, a celebration for 60 years of Bob Dylan’s Blonde On Blonde took place at the venue. The evening, MC’d by comedian Jordan Klepper, featured Natalie Merchant, Craig Finn, Hamilton Leithauser, and more performing tracks from the classic album in addition to some non-Blonde songs from Dylan’s discography.

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More CKY drama. In November last year, a British nu-metal group called BLACKGOLD pulled out of their tour with the Pennsylvania rock band due to frontman Chad I Ginsburg’s “disrespect” and “narcissism.” Yesterday, CKY’s bassist Mike Leon, formerly of Soulfly, posted a statement that he quit the band due to Ginsburg’s “toxicity” and “unprofessionalism.” Ginsburg then responded with a video saying Leon was actually fired for hating dogs.

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Last year, we named Phoenix’s Glixen a Band To Watch and put Quiet Pleasures on our list of the best shoegaze albums of 2025. Now, the band is back with an ultra-hazy new track called “Unwind.” “‘Unwind’ is about that feeling of relief when someone comes back to you after they’ve left,” bandleader Aislinn Ritchie…

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Last year, LAKE released their 10th album Bucolic Gone. Now the indie pop band’s Eli Moore is announcing his debut solo LP The Power Line and sharing the title track. About the single, Moore says: The album was recorded and mixed at the Anacortes Unknown Recording Studio with Nicholas Wilbur and features Mark Buzard (The Format),…

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