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This week, Kal Marks are releasing a new album, My Name Is Hell, the follow-up to 2018’s Universal Care and the Boston-based group’s first with a new lineup. We’ve heard “Ovation‘ and the title track from it so far,  » Read More

The New Orleans rapper Mystikal was arrested on rape and domestic abuse charges in Louisiana on Sunday, as WBRZ reports. Mystikal, real name Michael Tyler, was booked and charged with first-degree rape, domestic abuse, battery by strangulation, false imprisonment, and property damage. An official told TMZ that the rapper was arrested after police responded to a sexual assault report made at a local hospital.  » Read More

During the first pandemic summer, the Richmond-based musician (and music publicist) James Goodson started posting power-pop songs as Dazy, and in the couple years since then he’s amassed quite the collection of them. We named his 2021 EP The Crowded Mind one of the best of 2021.  » Read More

Last night, Harry Styles closed out the European leg of his Love On Tour in Lisbon. The popular British rock band Wolf Alice served as openers for most of the leg, and bandleader Ellie Rowsell came out during Styles’ encore to help him out with a cover of Wolf Alice’s own “  » Read More

In 2020, the Philadelphia-based musician Peter Gill released Hit To Hit, an extremely catchy and overstuffed collection of indie-pop songs with his band 2nd Grade. Last year, Gill re-recorded 2nd Grade’s debut, Wish You Were Here Tour. And just last week, Friendship —  » Read More

Back in May, Porno For Pyros reunited for their first shows since their breakup in 1997. The band — which is fronted by Perry Farrell of Jane’s Addiction — have booked a whole lot more reunion shows since then, partially because Jane’s Addiction seems to be out of commission for the time being due to Dave Navarro’s complications with long COVID.  » Read More

Lil Durk was injured after a pyrotechnic hit his face during his set at Lollapalooza on Saturday. Video from the performance shows Lil Durk reeling after walking through an on-stage explosion; after covering his face and taking a moment, he finished the set as planned. In an Instagram post on Sunday,  » Read More

Recently, there have been a whole lot of eyes on how often celebrities use their private jets and where they’ve been going. The trend took off couple years back with a Twitter account that tracked the (publicly accessible) movements of Elon Musk’s personal airplane, and now there are accounts that track the comings and goings of basically every celebrity with a plane.  » Read More