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We sound as lucky as we do cliche when we say that we're halfway through the 2023 festival season in the Pacific Northwest, and much of the best still has yet to come. While the top left corner of the United States hasn't been a music festival hub like its southern neighbor, it compensates ...Continue reading  » Read More

BOSS has unveiled the newest addition to their acclaimed ME series, the ME-90 Guitar Multiple Effects. This all-in-one processor has been designed with the performing guitarist in mind, offering an unprecedented combination of multi-effects power and hands-on control. Packed with exceptional audio ...Continue reading  » Read More

The soulful and low-key chameleonic UK pop singer Jorja Smith has been ramping up to a new album this year. She released the stellar singles “Try Me” and “Little Things” back in the spring, and she’s since announced that new LP Falling Or Flying will be out at the end of September.  » Read More

I really enjoyed Ade’s debut album Midnight Pizza, especially its contagiously brisk dance track “Another Weekend.” But the genre-jumping New York artist’s Junk in Orbit EP slipped past me last year. This week’s release of a video for closing track “One Of Us”  » Read More

Wovenhand and 16 Horsepower frontman David Eugene Edwards has announced the first solo album under his own name. Titled Hyacinth will be out in September and features contributions from producer Ben Chisholm. Edwards is also sharing the lead single from Hyacinth — the gloomy, majestic, poetic “Lionisis,” which comes with a video directed by Loic Zimmerman.  » Read More

Megan Thee Stallion has already shown certain theater-kid tendencies. She hosted Saturday Night Live and took part in the trainwreck performance of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s “We Don’t Talk About Bruno” at last year’s Oscars. Now, Tina Snow will star in a new song-and-dance motion picture called Dicks: The Musical.  » Read More

Mdou Moctar, the great Tuareg guitarist and Artist To Watch, has been on tour in the United States this summer. The tour is over, but Moctar and two of his bandmates can’t return home to Niger. On July 26, the country’s democratically elected leader was ousted by a military coup,  » Read More

Muncie Girls are breaking up. The Exeter band announced the news on social media today, writing: “We started this band when we were 17 and the biggest goal we could muster up was to release a 7” single. We ended up doing more things and going to more places than we could ever have imagined.”  » Read More

Stormzy, perhaps the giantest giant in the booming UK rap field, just released his relatively introspective album This Is What I Mean at the end of last year, and it sure seems like he’s gearing up for another project. In the past few weeks, Stormzy has released three singles: “  » Read More