In 1984, Anna Domino released the five-track mini-album East And West on Les Disques du Crépuscule, the Belgian indie label that often collaborated with Tony Wilson’s renowned Factory Records. The Tokyo-born artist was living in downtown New York and communicating the aura of the neighborhood through swimmy avant-pop daydreams. Now, East And West is getting a reissue from, appropriately, Domino.

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Imagine finding out, deep into middle age, that you’re the son of the honey-gargling king of yacht rock. Michael Goessling, a St. Louis resident, recently had just such an experience when he found out that he’s Michael McDonald’s son. For his whole life, Goessling knew that he was adopted. His parents conceived him when both of them were 14 years old, and he was put up for adoption as an infant. But Goessling didn’t learn until much later that one of his parents grew up to become Michael McDonald.

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Radio Free Alice are a Melbourne indie rock band with a sound that can make you feel instantly nostalgic. Depending on when you had your formative experiences, they might remind you of ’00s blog-rock, ’80s college rock, or any combination of those things. Their full-length debut What’s In Between comes out later this month, and we’ve already posted singles like “Rule 31” and “Kick In The Shins.” They’ve got another new song out today, and it’s got a special guest.

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Last year, mercury caught our attention with her towering grunge epic “Heaven,” which was adorned with crashing guitars and arresting vocals that made the song unforgettable. Now, Maddie Kerr is back with another stunner. This one’s called “Roar Of The Heliac Goat.”

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LA’s Cosmic Joke play hardcore like it’s pop-punk, taking cues from their melodic ’80s SoCal forebears. They impressed us with their 2024 debut LP and last year’s guest-heavy covers EP for wildfire relief, and word is, they’ve got a whole ‘nother album of that stuff ready to go. In November, Cosmic Joke will release Suburban Decay, comprising 12 more snotty singalongs of Descendents/Adolescents vintage. One of them, “No Threat,” is available today. If you want to bop around joyfully/angrily for just shy of two minutes while enjoying some tremendous walking basslines and a hearty breakdown that doesn’t skimp on the pop appeal, this tune’s for you. Listen below.

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Earlier this year, Peaches returned with No Lube So Rude, her first album in over a decade, which was shortlisted for the Polaris Music Prize. Now, the pop icon is giving her timeless 2000 hit “Fuck The Pain Away” its first remix for the new Hellraiser game.

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It’s time for another LCD Soundsystem residency. James Murphy and co. have announced a string of NYC shows slated for the holiday season at Queens’ Knockdown Center and Brooklyn’s Brooklyn Steel. It includes their 100th NYC residency show.

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Girl groups, like boy bands, have a limited lifespan: Their dissolution is all but inevitable, and they go through hell to get there. It’s one of those realities about pop music that we pretend isn’t going to happen this time, until it does, and then all of a sudden we always noticed the cracks in the facade, the outages in the girl power. 

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In 2024, Megan Thee Stallion released her third studio album Megan, followed by Megan: Act II shortly after. The rapper has been teasing Act III, and now she’s offering a taste with “Tina Tuesday Freestyle.”

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Right now, the roster at Sub Pop Records includes the Philadelphia noise-rock band Pissed Jeans and the Vancouver noise-rock band PISS. That’s synergy, baby! We need to get them together for a Monsters Of Piss tour. Despite their shared record label and their similar urine-based band names, nobody is going to confuse Pissed Jeans with PISS because they sound nothing like each other. In fact, the new song from PISS doesn’t even sound anything like the last song from PISS.

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