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Noah Kahan has been slowly but steadily blowing up for years. The process continues today with a new version of his viral hit “Dial Drunk,” now graced with the genre-adventurous Post Malone. (Five years ago Kahan was posting acoustic covers of Post Malone songs, back when acoustic Post Malone songs felt more like a novelty.)  » Read More

Caleb Southern, a producer and musician who famously worked with Ben Folds Five and Archers Of Loaf, has died. The news was confirmed by Georgia Tech, where Southern was a professor at the School Of Computing Instruction. He was 53.  » Read More

How do kids from Mexico get into British skinhead music from the late ’70s and early ’80s? I don’t know, but it can’t be that different from ’90s suburban American kids getting into British skinhead music from the late ’70s and early ’80s. The internet exists, and a lot of that oi music fucking rules.  » Read More

If you’ve been following the rollout for David Byrne’s new Broadway musical Here Lies Love through the music press, you might know more about the labor dispute involving the attempted use of pre-recorded tracks instead of live musicians than about the subject matter. The play, based on Byrne and Fatboy Slim’s album of the same name,  » Read More

Concert etiquette has gone out the window in the post-smartphone, post-COVID era, and I’m not just talking about people throwing objects at performers. Nowadays people seem more concerned with keeping a constant flow of information to and from social media than with actually paying attention to the show they’re watching. Chatter among friends feels like it’s at an all-time high.  » Read More

Next month, the Tribes Of Da Moon festival will come to New York’s Bowery Ballroom. Its lineup is dedicated entirely to hardcore bands who foreground the Black experience, and that encompasses a whole lot of truly excellent bands, including Burn, Soul Glo, Zulu, End It, Buggin, Truth Cult, Adrienne, and Thirdface. Move,  » Read More

Two years ago, the challenging Norwegian artist Jenny Hval got together with multi-instrumentalist Håvard Volden to form a new duo called Lost Girls, and they released their debut album Menneskekollektivet. Since then, Hval has released her solo album Classic Objects and the one-off single “  » Read More

The Pulp reunion tour has been popping off in fits and starts across the UK and Ireland since May, with Jarvis Cocker and friends (minus the late Steve Mackey) playing together for the first time in a decade. Saturday in Sheffield, on their second night at Utilita Arena,  » Read More

Today is Jeremih’s birthday. You know what that means. But also, he has a new single out. “Room” is about how Jeremih and his lady ought to get a room. It’s a brisk Afrobeats-inflected glide, especially when guest Adekunle Gold shows up to add some actual Nigerian energy to the track.  » Read More