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Happy birthday Philly homie Daryl Hall (Hall & Oates). Do what you want, be what you are. Photo for MAGNET by Evan Albuck. Read our Daryl Hall and Elvis Costello live review from 2024: The post Happy Birthday Daryl Hall (Hall & Oates) appeared first on Magnet Magazine.  » Read More

Happy 105th birthday Art Blakey. R.I.P. The big beat. The post Happy 105th Birthday Art Blakey, R.I.P. appeared first on Magnet Magazine.  » Read More

Every week the Stereogum staff chooses the five best new songs of the week. The eligibility period begins and ends Thursdays right before midnight. You can hear this week’s picks below and on Stereogum’s Favorite New Music Spotify playlist, which is updated weekly. (An expanded playlist of our new music picks is available to members on Spotify and Apple Music,  » Read More

Former R.E.M. leader Michael Stipe has been famously reticent to return to the limelight on any kind of consistent basis, but he’s going all out for the Kamala Harris presidential campaign. Last week, Stipe and Jason Isbell played a Harris/Walz campaign concert in Pittsburgh, and they teamed up on “Driver 8,”  » Read More

Back in July, trip-hop royalty Massive Attack announced a short run of US shows, marking their first North American performances since their Mezzanine XXI tour five years ago. But now, with less than a week to go, they’ve canceled all five of those gigs, including their scheduled set at Miami’s III Points festival next weekend.  » Read More

Finneas is out there promoting his new album For Cryin’ Out Loud! His travels recently brought him to the BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge, where he sat down and the piano and performed a solemn cover of Radiohead’s The Bends power ballad “Fake Plastic Trees.” The current jaunt is preventing him from participating in his sister and close collaborator Billie Eilish’s current tour,  » Read More

London grime star Skepta was supposed to release his new album Knife And Fork earlier this year, but it hasn’t come out yet, and we don’t know when it’s arriving. Thus far, Skepta has released the singles “Gas Me Up (Diligent)” and “Tony Montana,”  » Read More

Houston rap animals That Mexican OT and Maxo Kream make a perfect pair. Both of them are flashy, charismatic characters with serious technical style that’s rooted in old-school Southern bounce. When they get on a track together, you can hear the energy just crackle. Earlier this year, they teamed up on Maxo Kream’s single “  » Read More

“No Christmas music until after Halloween,” you say? What if the artist recorded said Christmas music makes everything sound haunted? Here’s Xiu Xiu doing “Frosty The Snowman,” from Cleopatra Records’ new holiday compilation We Wish You A Merry Gothmas.  » Read More