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Surprise! The National are about to release their second album of 2023. Matt Berninger announced it from the stage Friday night at the band’s Homecoming festival in Cincinnati, where the new LP is already on sale in a special limited edition.  » Read More

Thundercat has a new song with Listerine, Ice Spice has a new drink with Dunkin, and Kid Cudi is the new brand ambassador for Star Trek or something. But this week you were mostly commenting about Zach Bryan, Elon Musk, and XTC. Check that out below after this amusing Rick Springfield video.  » Read More

When talking about music composition, Lou Reed once said, “One chord is fine. Two chords is pushing it. Three chords and you’re into jazz.” Maybe that quote is apocryphal, but it’s amusing, nonetheless. Putting aside the exaggeration, Lou Reed was making a perceptive argument: You don’t need a lot of sophisticated harmony to create an emotionally moving song.  » Read More

“Twenty million other white rappers emerge!” That was Eminem in 2002, reflecting on the changes that he might’ve wrought on rap music. In the late ’90s, before Eminem erupted onto the national scene, white rappers were a punchline, a relic of the misbegotten early-’90s moment when record labels assumed that it would take a pale face to get rap into pop-radio rotation.  » Read More

The R&B album Diddy has been teasing for some time now — his first solo album in 17 years — is finally here. The Love Album: Off The Grid has a star-studded roster of guests, headlined by the Weeknd in what’s being billed as his final feature. (Abel Tesfaye will only perform on his own songs from now on.) That Weeknd appearance is on “Another One Of Me,”  » Read More

We’re coming off a summer of reactionary country hits, and Maren Morris isn’t having it. Morris, a huge country star, has lately become a passionate voice for liberal causes. This past summer, she performed at the massive Love Rising benefit in response to the anti-LBGTQ laws that were passed in Tennessee,  » Read More

Toronto singer-songwriter Rachel Bobbitt released her promising The Half We Still Have EP last month, capturing an especially widescreen version of the dreamy, jangly indie-pop sound popularized by the likes of the Sundays and the Cranberries, and she followed it a couple weeks ago with a song called “  » Read More

Earlier this year, the permanently hyperactive LA punks FIDLAR came back with their EP That’s Life and with a Limp Bizkit cover that someone, somewhere, must’ve wanted. Now, FIDLAR have dropped another new single, and this one, thankfully, will not evoke any memories of Fred Durst on TRL.  » Read More

††† (Crosses), the pairing of Deftones’ Chino Moreno and producer/multi-instrumentalist Shaun Lopez, are four weeks out from the release of new album Goodnight, God Bless, I Love U, Delete. Robert Smith and El-P are on the album, but we haven’t heard those tracks yet. Lead single “Invisible Hand”  » Read More