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No. Fuck that. We’re not doing this again. Eight years ago, I repeatedly succumbed to the temptation to treat every raw, noisy hardcore punk song as a reflection of an apocalyptic mentality, a mirror for whatever was going on in my own myopic post-election soul. I’m off that. Instead, I will merely note that the feral,  » Read More

The raspy, muttery, extremely prolific Atlanta rapper Young Nudy and the warped, adventurous trap producer Pi’erre Bourne came up together, and they teamed up to score many of their early successes. Six years ago, they teamed up on the mixtape Sli’merre. On Halloween, Nudy announced that the sequel Sli’merre 2 is coming sometime in November.  » 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

Music-world legend Quincy Jones, arguably the greatest producer in all of pop history, has died. Jones is obviously most famous as Michael Jackson’s chief collaborator in the era when Jackson took pop stardom to unseen heights, and that alone would earn mythic status for Jones. But Jones’ legacy runs much deeper than that,  » Read More

When the late, great Steve Albini died abruptly and unexpectedly about six months ago, he was still hard at work capturing dynamic recordings of rock bands at his Chicago studio Electrical Audio. The last one he worked on is set for release in February: Wish Defense, the sixth proper LP from the prolific veteran Chicago band FACS,  » Read More

There is some bad juju going on in Melbourne arenas right now. A few weeks ago, Olivia Rodrigo was playing a show there, and she fell through an opening in the stage floor. (Miraculously, she wasn’t hurt.) On Sunday night at a different venue in Melbourne, Coldplay’s Chris Martin also fell through a trap door in the stage.  » Read More

Doves, cult favorites from that melancholic post-Britpop moment that gave us Coldplay and all of the UK’s aspiring next Radioheads, returned in 2020 after more than a decade away with The Universal Want. They’ll be back on Valentine’s Day with their first album since then, Constellations For The Lonely.  » Read More

Noel and Liam Gallagher will perform in Argentina, Chile, and Brazil in November  » Read More

The Philadelphia band will perform in the United Kingdom and Ireland in the winter  » Read More