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The grimy, streetwise NYC rapper Wiki teamed with producer Tony Seltzer on an album called 14k Figaro last fall. They’ve got a new track together out today. “No L’s” is, as you might expect, about how Wiki is not taking any L’s this year. I can’t speak to the whole of his 2024,  » Read More

Enumclaw, the Tacoma indie rock Band To Watch, have signed to Run For Cover Records. The esteemed RFC will release Enumclaw’s new album Home In Another Life at the end of August. There are some real vulnerable song titles on this one including “I’m Scared I’ll End Up All Alone,”  » Read More

Melvins man Dale Crover is about to drop his third solo album, though he’s far from alone on the record with a guest list like this one. Glossolalia, set for release in September, features contributions from Soundgarden’s Kim Thayil (“I Quit” and “Rings”), Ty Segall (“Spoiled Daisies” and “I Waited Forever”),  » Read More

Massive Attack are currently on tour in Europe. They were supposed to make a stop next month in the country of Georgia, which has been making headlines recently due to a controversial nationalist bill their government just passed known colloquially as the “Russia Law.” Now, Massive Attack have cancelled their show there in solidarity with protestors of that bill.  » Read More

Frank Black — aka Pixies frontman Black Francis — has announced two shows commemorating the 30th anniversary of his second solo album Teenager Of The Year. He’ll be reuniting the record’s original personnel for one Paris gig and one London gig in February 2025 to play the full album,  » Read More

Hey, it’s another festival lineup! The band Hundred Waters put together the first FORM Acrosanti festival in the Arizona desert in 2014; it was basically an extremely elaborate record-release show. After that, FORM Acrosanti became an annual event, but it hasn’t happened since 2019. This year, FORM Acrosanti will come back to Acrosanti,  » Read More

Like many of today’s biggest pop stars, Ariana Grade got her start in children’s television. In 2009, the 16-year-old Grande started her stint as Cat Valentine on the Nickelodeon sitcom Victorious and then on the spinoff show Sam & Cat. By the time the latter show ended in 2014,  » Read More

Riot Fest, the massive Chicago rock marathon, is back for another year, and it’s just unveiled its 2024 lineup. This year’s installment goes down 9/20-22 at a new venue, SeatGeek Stadium in Bridgeview, Illinois. As reported, one of the headliners is Slayer, who are back to headlining festivals just five years after they finished their farewell tour.  » Read More

PleasrDAO, the digital art collective that owns Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, claims that the disgraced former pharmaceutical executive lacks the authority to share the album publicly. Shkreli is expectedly remorseless.  » Read More