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Last year, Sky Ferreira’s sole album Night Time, My Time turned 10. Since 2015, she’s been teasing its follow-up Masochism, then addressed the delay last year, which led to a “Free Sky Ferreira” banner flying over her label Capitol Records’  » Read More

Last week, Knocked Loose — who just received their first Grammy nomination — brought hardcore mayhem to Kimmel with a ferocious performance with Poppy full of screaming and moshing. Shortly after, a Facebook comment went viral — after getting picked up by The Mirror — for demanding an apology from the late-night television host.  » Read More

Saturday Night Live just announced its hosts and musical guests for December. As revealed during the show’s recent Charli XCX extravaganza, Gladiator II star Paul Mescal will host with musical guest (and thwarted record-breaker) Shaboozey this Saturday, Dec. 7. A week later, Mescal’s girlfriend will make her SNL debut.  » Read More

Four years ago, Deamonte Kendrick, the rapper known as Yak Gotti, joined his YSL compatriots Young Thug and Gunna on a song called “Take It To Trial.” That sentiment became quite real for all three artists in 2022 when the YSL braintrust was indicted on RICO charges.  » Read More

Last week, Shaboozey tied the record. The Virginia artist’s out-of-nowhere crossover-country smash “A Bar Song (Tipsy)” spent its 19th non-consecutive week at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. That’s the same span of time that Lil Nas X and Billy Ray Cyrus spent at #1 when “Old Town Road”  » Read More

Last year, Jesse Malin — the beloved New York singer-songwriter who also played in punk bands like Heart Attack and D Generation — suffered a spinal stroke that left him paralyzed from the waist down. But things have been looking up over the past couple of months; he’s made progress walking again,  » Read More

Earlier this year, the great underground lifer Steve Albini passed away suddenly. Over his long career, Albini engineered hundreds, or possibly, thousands, of records. When he died, Albini was in the middle of working on another one. That album was Wish Defense, the latest work from the veteran Chicago post-punk trio FACS,  » Read More

Early next year, the big-deal British rocker Sam Fender will release his new album People Watching. Fender recorded part of the LP with the War On Drugs’ Adam Granduciel, and the advance tracks definitely sound like something that a big-deal British rocker might make with the War On Drugs guy.  » Read More

Your kid loses a tooth, and you don’t have a one-dollar bill to put under their pillow, so you leave them alone to go get change. That’s the premise of “The Tooth Fairy,” the latest song from Owen Ashworth’s Advance Base project. The song is short and simple, and Ashworth delivers it with his usual hangdog deadpan,  » Read More