Have you seen MUNA live? It’s a fucking party. The LA trio makes sleek, dancey indie-pop, and their shows are giddy singalongs. I’m used to hearing MUNA tracks with fun, flirty lyrics. I’m not used to hearing them talk like this: “How America gives more than America takes/ We give weapons to dictators in apartheid…
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Last year, we posted “I’m A Pretty Showboy,” a single from the buzzy Brighton band Opus Kink. Opus Kink make brooding, strutting post-punk with accents of jazz and country. They’ve got two horn players and a frontman who knows how to smolder, and they remind me a bit of Morphine, if Morphine were both British…
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I have waited for this day. Richmond, Virginia’s Division Of Mind are among the greatest heavy hardcore bands on the face of the planet right now. They make fiery, metallic mosh ragers with occasional tinges of industrial and experimental music, and they cause absolute pandemonium whenever they play live. I’ve seen them a bunch of…
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We are so stoked for this Friday’s release of Two Wheels Move The Soul, the new album from the electronics-infused Burlington indie band Robber Robber. They’ve released a whole slew of singles already, but who are we to reject one more when the tracks are this good? “New Year’s Eve” sets Nina Cates’ breathy wail…
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If you Google the phrase “commitment fear of,” you will probably have to scroll down a very long way before you encounter the Philadelphia hardcore punk band Commitment or their upcoming debut album Fear Of. Maybe that’s on purpose. Maybe the entire enterprise flies in the very face of search engine optimization. Nevertheless, Stereogum is…
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The phrase “paulmccartney has been banned” is inherently funny and absurd, especially when it comes to his own subreddit. Sir Paul McCartney was never the world’s most active Redditor, but the people running his Reddit account tried to post some photos and videos of a recent show in the r/PaulMcCartney subreddit over the weekend. But for reasons that remain mysterious, that thread was taken down, and McCartney’s account was temporarily suspended.
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Guns N’ Roses were one of the many bands subjected to the great drumpocalypse of 2025 when Frank Ferrer, their timekeeper of nearly two decades, left the band. But that hasn’t stopped Axl Rose, Duff McKagan, and Slash from chugging on: In December they shared the new songs “Nothin'” and “Atlas,” and they played both live for the first time last night at their tour kickoff in Monterrey, Mexico.
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During the Thursday’s iHeartRadio Music Awards, TLC, Salt-N-Pepa, and En Vogue performed a medley of hits, and the following day the three groups announced a tour together. But that grand comeback news has been marred by the discovery that TLC’s Chilli donated hundreds of dollars to Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign.
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Kanye West once called James Blake his “favorite artist” and they first collaborated over a decade ago. In 2022, the English singer-songwriter and producer also teamed up with the rapper for a project called WAR, which never saw the light of day. Later that year is when Kanye — now Ye — started regularly spewing antisemitism on social media and directly associating with far-right figures and ideology. Ye’s comments were widely condemned and he lost several major business partnerships. Now he has released the new album Bully, and Blake is credited on the closing track, “THIS ONE HERE.”
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This year, Robert Smith took the reins for the Teenage Cancer Trust benefit concerts at London’s Royal Albert Hall. The legendary frontman served as the “cureator,” putting together a lineup that includes Garbage, Wolf Alice, Manic Street Preachers, Elbow, and My Bloody Valentine. Last night’s show had Chvrches, and they debuted a new song called “Conman.”
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