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One of the funniest parts of “Euphoria,” Kendrick Lamar’s preeminent Drake diss track before “Not Like Us” came along, is the part where he seems to mix up former child actor Haley Joel Osment (of The Sixth Sense/A.I. fame) with the megachurch huckster Joel Osteen (a real-life Righteous Gemstones character).  » Read More

Fontaines D.C. have a new album called Romance arriving later this month. The Irish post-punks have shared a few singles from it, including “Starburster,” “Favourite” (which you voted as one of 2024’s Songs Of The Summer), and “Here’s The Thing”  » Read More

Rhys Langston, the always-evolving LA hip-hop creative, has a new song out today. That song, a collaboration with Inkydew The Companion, is titled after its opening line: “petrol and vegetables / don’t airstrike the messenger.” It’s a tense, slow-building alternative rap track laced with Middle Eastern influence, written about the plight of families in Gaza.  » Read More

Every January, the hardcore year truly begins with FYA Fest, the big event where a whole lot of people get together to mosh extremely hard at Tampa’s Bryan Glazer Jewish Community Center. Even among those who don’t attend, the entire hardcore nation’s timeline always floods with images of people going crazy in a big,  » Read More

The first Rolling Loud festival was a single-day affair at Miami’s Soho Studios in 2015. ScHoolboy Q headlined, and other acts on the bill included Juicy J, A$AP Ferg, Action Bronson, Curren$y, Denzel Curry, and Travis Scott. Since that first fest, Rolling Loud has grown into a global brand that fills stadiums around the world.  » Read More

The MTV Video Music Awards used to be a major cultural event. They’re still a big enough deal that last year’s show featured the reunited *NSYNC presenting Taylor Swift with an award. But the VMAs are not a bigger deal than the upcoming presidential election. For its 40th anniversary the show was all set to happen on September 10,  » Read More

I’ve always thought of Horse Jumper Of Love songs as charms. To the average person, they appear pretty but mundane; to someone who notices their hidden magic, they’re cosmic and one-of-a-kind. Since their beloved 2016 self-titled debut, the Boston group — made up of vocalist and guitarist Dimitri Giannopoulos, bassist John Margaris,  » Read More

The Smashing Pumpkins are currently on a big stadium tour with their Lollapalooza ’94 comrades Green Day, and they just released their new album Aghori Mhori Mei. A big Smashing Pumpkins moment wouldn’t be complete without Billy Corgan doing something weird, and the current weird thing is a series of AI messages from Corgan in different languages.  » Read More

“Sound Within Sound,” which samples the multi-instrumentalist’s frequent collaborators André 3000 and Carlos Niño, leads Excellent Traveler  » Read More