Today, Jack Harlow turns 28, and he releases an R&B album. Harlow recorded his new LP Monica at New York’s Electric Lady studio after moving to the city, and it represents an extremely unexpected career pivot for the onetime pop-rap hitmaker. Harlow’s last full-length was the relatively low-key 2023 rap LP Jackman. On Monica, he reintroduces himself as a neo-soul singer. In a new interview, Harlow explains the transition by saying, “I got Blacker” — a wild thing for a white artist to say.

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There’s a whole lot of news out of the Refugee Camp lately. Some of it is legal in nature.

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Among the many projects pursued by Darkside guitarist Dave Harrington over the years is Hollywood Visit, an album he recorded with ambient musician Tim Mislock over three days at a studio in Joshua Tree. Four years later, they’re following it up. Harrington and Mislock’s Isle Of Palms will be out in just two weeks, and…

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The antitrust lawsuit that Joe Biden’s Department Of Justice filed against Live Nation and Ticketmaster in 2024 reached a surprise halt earlier this week when the DOJ, now under Trump, reached a settlement before the case could even go to trial. But that hasn’t stopped details of the case from coming to light: According to internal messages released late last night, ticketing employees at Live Nation were joking about gouging ticket buyers and “robbing them blind.”

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Mike McCready is here to make people care about opera again. Today the Pearl Jam guitarist announced Farewell To Seasons, a “graphic album” and rock opera set in 1990s Seattle about a fictional grunge musician named David Williams.

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Tucker Zimmerman, the cult-beloved folk singer-songwriter who struck up a creative partnership with Big Thief in his 80s, died tragically in a house fire alongside his wife Marie-Claire back in January. Before his death, Tuckerman recorded one last album, Dream Me A Dream, which is now set for posthumous release in June. Players on the…

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Lip Critic’s new album Theft World has an incredible backstory: While the Band To Watch was touring in support of their 2024 debut album Hex Dealer, frontman Bret Kaser’s identity was stolen by a young fan of the band in a Five Nights At Freddy’s hoodie who was convinced clues for an elaborate scavenger hunt…

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On Tuesday, the 15th-seeded Pitt scored an upset win over Stanford in the opening game of the ACC tournament. It was a closely contested game, and Pitt won it by a single point, 64-63. The true hero of the game was senior guard Damarco Minor, who caught his own rebound and scored with less than a second on the clock. But in a game that close, anything can make a difference. So maybe the deciding factor was the one mysterious, extremely loud person, presumably a Pitt fan, who spent the game’s second half bellowing ’90s alt-rock ballads at Stanford players.

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He is ELUCID; he speaks for the trees. The great elliptical New York rapper ELUCID recently teamed up with Swiss-born producer Sebb Bash to record the new collaborative album I Guess U Had To Be There, and it comes out on Friday. Breezly Brewin, Estee Nack, and Shabaka Hutchings make appearances. We’ve posted the early…

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Mike Silver, the Montreal-born producer better known as CFCF, is following up his cult-favorite 2021 LP Memoryland with his new album L.U.V. this June. Along with today’s announcement, Silver is sharing the record’s amped-up lead single “Let’s Kill Ourselves,” a tongue-in-cheek brain-rattler featuring Touching Ice and TECHG1RLS. While Memoryland saw Silver excavate some of his…

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