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In about 10 days, Post Malone will release his new guitar-driven album Austin. We’ve already heard a few of its singles, including “Chemical,” “Mourning,” and “Overdrive.” Plus, Post is currently on his If Y’all Weren’t Here I’d Be Crying tour,  » Read More

Next month, Stephen Steinbrink will release a new album, Disappearing Coin. He announced it in May with the lead single “Opalescent Ribbon” and followed up with another new track, “Cruiser.” Today, he’s back with “Poured Back in the Stream.” Like “Cruiser,”  » Read More

On September 7, 1996, Tupac Shakur attended a boxing match with Death Row Records co-founder Suge Knight in Las Vegas. The same night, a car pulled up alongside theirs on Las Vegas Boulevard and opened fire. Shakur, who was struck four times, died from internal bleeding on September 13, 1996. No one was ever arrested in connection with the case.  » Read More

A couple summers back, the noisy Chicago post-punk trio Luggage released their Happiness EP on Ryley Walker’s Husky Pants label. Today they’ve announced a new LP called Hand Is Bad, coming this fall via the delightfully named Amish Records. The opener and title track combines sheets of hypnotic guitar with a rhythm section that clatters like heavy industrial equipment.  » Read More

An honorary doctorate might not help you get a job, but it’s got to be good for your… self-esteem. Sorry! I’m sorry. Rebecca Lucy Taylor, the British musician who was once half of the duo Slow Club and who now records as Self Esteem, is a Mercury Prize nominee,  » Read More

Lathe Of Heaven are signed to Sacred Bones, and they sound like it. On “Ekpyrosis,” the lead single from debut album Bound By Naked Skies, the NYC band plays gleaming-yet-grimy rock music that pulls from post-punk and hardcore. The track is defined by pulsing basslines, a skittering dance-punk drumbeat,  » Read More

In the time it takes some bands to decide what studio they’re going to try and contact their muse in, Osees (aka Thee Oh Sees and a bunch of other names) have recorded the entire record and are halfway through the tour to support it. They don’t hang around.  » Read More

Elvis Costello rolled back the years last week at New York’s Beacon Theater.  » Read More

Former members of The Pooh Sticks, Talulah Gosh and Heavenly join forces as Swansea Sound at London’s The Lexington.  » Read More