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Last night, Eric Church headlined Stagecoach with a polarizing performance. Seated in front of red stained glass windows, the country musician played an acoustic, covers-heavy set that included songs by 2Pac (“California Love”) and Snoop Dogg (“Gin And Juice”) with a gospel choir. The night was light on his own material and some audience members booed while others left to see Nickelback perform on another stage.  » Read More

Last year, NewJeans released their sophomore EP Get Up. Since then, they’ve been relatively quiet while wrapped up in legal issues, including a report against the CEO of their label and a lawsuit against an anonymous YouTuber for defamation. Now, the K-pop juggernaut is back with “Bubble Gum.”  » Read More

Yesterday, Ringo Starr gave an official release to his new EP, Crooked Boy, which came out as an exclusive vinyl on Record Store Day. Its four tracks were written and produced by Linda Perry and feature the Strokes guitarist Nick Valensi.  » Read More

Last year, Ogbert The Nerd shared the song “Bike Cops.” The New Jersey emo group has been relatively quiet, but bandleader Madison James is up to big things, such as securing taylorswift.bandcamp.com.  » Read More

Yesterday, Jimmy Eat World’s Jim Adkins and Zach Lind appeared as guests on Danny Brown’s podcast The Danny Brown Show. The rapper began the episode with the confession that when he went through a bad breakup, he listened to their 1999 album Clarity every day. They also talked influences,  » Read More

Yesterday was 30 years since the release of Outkast’s debut album, Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik. While the hip-hop duo were celebrating the anniversary, they were also mourning the loss of producer Rico Wade, who passed away earlier this month and was laid to rest yesterday. Big Boi and André 3000 shared statements on social media.  » Read More

Earlier this week, Drew Carey of The Drew Carey Show and The Price Is Right fame wrote that he would stick his dick in a blender (among other sacrifices) to be able to see Phish at the Sphere again. He had never seen Phish before and apparently didn’t even know any of their songs.  » Read More

Last night Lana Del Rey made a surprise appearance at the country fest Stagecoach during Paul Cauthen’s set. The duo duetted on “Unchained Melody,” the Righteous Brothers’ 1965 classic Lana covered on NBC’s Christmas At Graceland special in December and Cauthen covered with Orville Peck in 2020.  » Read More

(Yes, it’s a Taylor Swift column. The reason is simple: This is a pop column, and every artist in the industry knows better than to release a pop album the same week as Taylor Swift. What else is there to write about? Pearl Jam? UB40? Raffi?)  » Read More