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True Detective: Night Country, the fourth season of the HBO anthology show, debuted last night, and its theme song is Billie Eilish’s “bury a friend,” from When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?, her 2019 debut album.  » Read More

The Critics Choice Awards were held last night in California, and the Barbie track “I’m Just Ken” won for Best Song, much to Ryan Gosling’s surprise. His deadpan reaction to its win went viral on social media. On stage, the award was accepted by its songwriters Mark Ronson and Andrew Wyatt.  » Read More

In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. Book Bonus Beat: The Number Ones: Twenty Chart-Topping Hits That Reveal the History of Pop Music.  » Read More

Dinosaur Jr. still have a few dates left on the 30th anniversary tour celebrating Where You Been, and this weekend they’re in Portland, Oregon for two nights at Revolution Hall. During Saturday night’s show, Stephen Malkmus came out to play on “Kracked,” off 1987’s You’re Living All Over Me.  » Read More

There’s no band like Joyce Manor. Pulling from influences like Weezer, the Smiths, and Guided By Voices, the Torrance, California trio developed their own unconventional, invigorating, ultra-concise approach to pop-rock. Though they tour with mainly Warped Tour-era bands like Citizen and The Story So Far and are often credited with kickstarting the emo revival movement alongside acts like Title Fight and Tigers Jaw (Joyce Manor and Tigers Jaw recently covered […]

Maxband is a project headed up by Parquet Courts drummer Max Savage. They’ve been around for a few years now; most recently, they released an EP called Top Of The Stairs in 2020. In 2018, they put out Perfect Strangers, which was originally billed as an album but I guess has now been reclassified as a demo because Maxband have just announced their “debut”  » Read More

Ronstadt’s manager, John Boylan, is slated to produce the movie with James Keach  » Read More

“It’s hard to know what to say… He was a big part of my life and my work for many years,” Bush wrote of her late collaborator and former romantic partner. “I’m going to miss him terribly.”  » Read More

The collective’s new full-length, Deep Sea Vents, features Branford Marsalis and more  » Read More