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Olivia O from Lowertown and Child Star announced her new solo album No Bones, Sickly Sweet last month with the release of “One Hit Wonder.” She’s got another new track out today, an engaging lo-fi indie-pop tune called “Hole.” It’s full of restless energy and led by an incessantly catchy hook: “I’d rather roll over into a hole in the ground than let you touch me now.”  » Read More

I remember it like it was yesterday. Tyler, The Creator released what he called a “throwaway song” named after a pod vegetable. Over blown-out bass, the rapper jeered a vague threat — or invitation? — aimed at the up-and-coming young actor stealing everyone’s hearts: “Tell Tim Chalamet to come get at me.”  » Read More

Billy Joel’s MSG residency may be over, but he’s still out there performing intermittent stadium shows. Friday he was in Cleveland at the newly renamed Huntington Bank Field, where he was joined by fellow Rock & Roll Hall Of Famer Rod Stewart for a run through the old Faces romp “Stay With Me.”  » Read More

Mark Hoppus has been through a whole lot in his 52 years of life. He wrote “Dammit.” He kicked cancer’s ass. He may have even helped the US military capture Saddam Hussein. Now, for the literate Blink-182 fans out there, he’s jotting down all his antics in writing with his upcoming memoir Fahrenheit-182,  » Read More

For a good chunk of the past 12 months, Ben Gibbard, Jimmy Tamborello, Jenny Lewis, and others in the Postal Service fold have been out on the road celebrating the 20th anniversary of the band’s lone album, 2003’s electronic indie-pop sleeper hit Give Up. Gibbard’s main band Death Cab For Cutie have been co-headlining those gigs,  » Read More

Unless we’re talking about something like the Ed Sullivan Show performances, the Beatles’ most famous American concert is their heavily documented Shea Stadium gig in 1965. A year earlier, however, the Beatles played a different Queens venue. In August 1964, during the initial American Beatlemania explosion, the Beatles played two nights at Forest Hills Stadium.  » Read More

Last Saturday, Reggaeton singer Nicky Jam endorsed Donald Trump for president at the Republican candidate’s Las Vegas rally. It was weird for a number of reasons, not least of which being that Trump mistakenly referred to Nicky — a cisgender man — as a woman. Nicky was born in Massachusetts,  » Read More

Britpop greats Supergrass broke up in 2010 and reunited in 2019. In their time back together, Supergrass did a bunch of touring, played Kimmel, and released a cover of the Police’s “Next To You.” Two years ago, they played a short set at the Wembley Stadium Taylor Hawkins tribute gig.  » Read More

After his two albums received little attention in the 1970s, Mauro went missing, feared dead, before a 2016 reissue led to his reappearance  » Read More