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In Feb. 2023, it was reported that the Weeknd would star alongside Jenna Ortega and Barry Keoghan in a film scored by Daniel Lopatin. A lot has happened since then — including the chaotic release and cancelation of Abel Tasfaye’s Max series The Idol — but today the movie was announced and it’s titled after his forthcoming album Hurry Up Tomorrow.  » Read More

Billy Corgan is a guitar god, he’ll have you know. In a recent interview with Guitar World, the Smashing Pumpkins mastermind complains that he doesn’t get nearly enough recognition when listicles of history’s greatest guitarists are assembled.  » Read More

British R&B girl group FLO will release their debut album Access All Areas next week, and our latest preview is the title track. Lyrically, it’s on some “Red Light Special” shit: “So let’s explore/ Come take a tour/ Access all areas/ Tonight it’s yours.” But the vibe is brisk and bright,  » Read More

Both Charli XCX and her “360” remix collaborator Yung Lean have respectively put out a lot of music over the past few years. Charli has hinted that she’s pumping the brakes on new music following Brat, instead packing her schedule with numerous acting gigs. I’m not sure how Yung Lean is feeling about putting out new music,  » Read More

Call a medic because everybody at the bar has now been getting tipsy for an historically long amount of time. Shaboozey’s genre-jumbling mega-hit “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” is #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for a 16th nonconsecutive week, Billboard reports. That ties the record for the second longest stretch at #1.  » Read More

If you like heavy shit, please be advised that Deadbody, from California, and Tribal Gaze, from Texas, make the heaviest shit. Now, the two bands are joining forces to release a split LP of heavy shit. Both bands live at the place where hardcore and death metal overlap, and both are dropping absolutely disgusting riffage on us.  » Read More

In a week and a half, the Midwestern indie rock veterans Wussy will return with Cincinnati Ohio, a new LP named after their hometown. It’s their first album in six years, which means it’s the first since the 2020 passing of guitarist and co-founder John Erhardt. We’ve already posted the early tracks “The Great Divide”  » Read More

Earlier this year, Barry Keoghan made his music video debut in Sabrina Carpenter’s clip for “Please Please Please.” Today, in news that I can’t believe hasn’t happened sooner, Keoghan stars in the video for “Bug” by his fellow Dubliners Fontaines D.C.  » Read More

Next year, the prolific and constantly-mutating Australian psych-rock monsters King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard will head out on a North American orchestral tour, a surprising but natural evolution for a band that’s already gained a reputation as a phenomenal live act. King Gizzard aren’t exactly a jam band,  » Read More