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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After over a decade of fronting the Brooklyn indie rock mainstays Sunflower Bean, Julia Cumming is going solo. Her debut album Julia is out this April via her new label home Partisan, and she’s announcing it today with the lead single “My Life.” Cumming made Julia with her collaborator Brian Robert Jones (Paramore, Vampire Weekend)…

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Last summer the Bug Club released their latest album Very Human Features, which arrived just shy of a year after its predecessor, On The Intricate Inner Workings Of The System. Today, right on schedule, the Welsh garage rockers have announced their next LP Every Single Muscle. They’re previewing their third album in three years with…

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Bruce Springsteen has been vocal about his anti-ICE stance in recent months, telling them to “get the fuck out of Minneapolis” at Asbury Park’s Light Of Day WinterFest, releasing an anti-ICE protest song called “Streets Of Minneapolis,” and performing it at Tom Morello’s benefit in that city. Now, he’s announcing a tour “in celebration and in defense of America,” and it’ll kick off in Minneapolis.

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Right now, the former Sonic Youth member who’s in the public eye the most is Kim Gordon, and she’ll release her new solo album Play Me next month. But Gordon’s ex-husband and former bandmate Thurston Moore has a lot going on, too. Just a couple of weeks ago, he shared Guitar Explorations Of Cloud Formations,…

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