Today, we get a new surprise album that’s an actual no-shit surprise. In 2022, Scott Kelly, frontman of the legendary long-running underground metal band Neurosis, admitted to abusing his wife and children and wrote that he’s “100% permanently retired from being a professional musician.” In response, Kelly’s Neurosis bandmates expressed their “disgust and disappointment” with…
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Things are not looking good for CY Fest, the underground punk/hardcore/metal festival that’s supposed to come to Los Angeles in a week and a half. Last week, the Instagram page @Feral_bonobos, which lists itself as “the beginning of a decentralized feminist coalition within the punk scene,” circulated many sexual misconduct allegations against festival promoter Ignacio Rodriguera, who goes by the name Nacho Corrupted. Since then, a number of bands have dropped off of the festival, and its immediate future looks truly dubious.
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Ziemba, aka René Kladzyk, put out her albums True Romantic and Unsubtle Magic back in 2020 and 2021 respectively, and we haven’t heard a peep from her since. In the interim, she moved from El Paso to Los Angeles, and she kept working on music. “The Perfect Rose,” Ziemba’s first new song in five years,…
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The young London rapper fakemink has a whole lot of hype around him, and his music has enough fuzzed-out weirdo energy to justify that. He was one of our favorite new artists of 2025, and he ended the year by playing his first few North American tours, including a set at Tyler, The Creator’s Camp Flog Gnaw Carnival. This year, fakemink released his EP The Boy Who Cried Terrified, and his album Terrified is supposed to arrive in spring. He was already set to play US festivals like Coachella, Rolling Loud, and Lollapalooza. Now, he’s announcing a whole North American tour, followed by runs in the UK and Europe.
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Jump Source, the Montreal electronic duo of producers Patrick Holland and Francis Latreille, recently announced their debut album Fold. Arriving next month, the LP features quite a few familiar names in its stacked list of guests: Two of those are billy woods and the cult favorite Japanese art-pop artist POiSON GiRL FRiEND, who respectively feature…
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Sombr had the unique honr of performing in Dublin just one day before St. Patrick’s Day. To celebrate, the Gen Z pop star brought out Mike and Noel Hogan, members of the Gen Z -beloved Cranberries. With the Hogans on guitar and bass, Sombr — decked out in shamrock green — sang lead on their hit “Linger,” a song that came out 12 years before he was born. Sombr can legally drink in Ireland, so he also unsuccessfully tried to split the G on a pint of Guinness onstage. See clips below.
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For a while now, Madonna has been teasing Confessions On A Dance Floor 2 — the sequel to her 2005 album — and buzz around it has only increased since caught her apparently filming a big scale music video earlier this month. Meanwhile William Orbit, the main producer and co-writer of Madonna’s 1998 smash Ray Of Light, says she’s been ignoring his proposals to make a Ray Of Light 2.
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The LA-based artist Kelsey Lu, a classically trained cellist with a tremendous sense of vision, released her debut album Blood back in 2019. Since then, she’s scored a couple of films and collaborated with people like Yves Tumor, Mykki Blanco, and Jamie xx. Now, she’s signed with Dirty Hit, and her new album So Help…
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Thursday might’ve prayed, prayed every single day, to avoid any situation where they’d have to cover the 4 Non Blondes song “What’s Up,” but those prayers did not come true. The music lessons app Musora has a video series where they challenge bands to come into the studio and figure out how to cover songs that fall far outside their comfort zones. Past hits include jazz combo Generation Y covering Nirvana, folk-pop duo Fionn covering System Of A Down, and Norwegian prog-metallers Leprous covering a-ha. Now, it’s Thursday doing 4 Non Blondes’ unkillable 1993 smash.
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