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Lil Wayne is bringing his Lil’ WeezyAna Fest back to New Orleans this fall, highlighted by a reunion from the group that made him a star. The Hot Boys, the Cash Money Millionaires group that matched Weezy with B.G., Juvenile, and Turk, will reunite onstage for the first time since 2000. (Though setlist.fm lists a reunion at the Miami nightclub LIV in 2012,  » Read More

Next month, San Jose death metal world-crushers Ripped To Shreds, a 2022 Stereogum Band To Watch, will release their new album Sanshi. We’ve already posted the early singles “Perverting The Funeral Rites, Stripping For The Dead” and “Force Fed.”  » Read More

Forty years ago, David Byrne danced with a lamp. In what might be the most memorable scene of Stop Making Sense, my pick for the best live-concert film ever made, Byrne picks up a regular floor lamp, previously a mere part of the stage setting, and pushes it back and forth,  » Read More

Since 2009, Roberto Carlos Lange has built up a robust and rewarding discography as Helado Negro. Before that, he worked under other aliases. Lange sent a message to his Bandcamp followers today pointing out that Confetti, an album he released under the name Boom & Birds in 2004, is available now as a free download.  » Read More

The Los Angeles noise-pop band Mo Dotti are gearing up to share their new album Opaque later this month. (According to their Bandcamp page, each vinyl LP will vary in color so that they can recycle as much wax as possible, which is cool.) We’ve already heard “lucky boy,”  » Read More

Alex Ross Perry’s new Pavement movie Pavements is premiering today at Venice Film Festival, and the first clip from the film has emerged online. We’ve been hearing for a while that the movie is an unconventional hybrid documentary/biopic and that it involves some elements like a pop-up museum featuring real and fake artifacts (which actually did briefly open in New York),  » Read More

Lollapalooza has announced the 2025 lineups for its trio of South American festivals. All of them feature a sextet of headliners including Olivia Rodrigo, Justin Timberlake, Tool, Alanis Morissette, Shawn Mendes, and Rüfüs Du Sol, with additional headliner Tan Bionica lined up for Argentina.  » Read More

John Davis, founding vocalist of Superdrag, recently announced his new solo album JINX. He’s so far shared its opener “The Future” and the follow-up single “Take My Brains Out,” and today, he’s back with another called “Indifferent Stars.”  » Read More

The Berlin-based producer’s new label Kapsela will launch in October with a new solo EP and a remix-filled, 10th anniversary reissue of “Ganzfeld”  » Read More