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In November, Ashley Monroe released the song “Over Everything.” Today, the Knoxville country singer is back with a cover of Fred Eaglesmith’s “I Like Trains.”  » Read More

The Dallas-born, LA-based singer Liv.e landed on our best albums of 2023 list with Girl In The Half Pearl, an album that steered R&B and neo-soul sounds in experimental, often electronic directions. But nothing on that LP prepared us for the direction Liv.e would go on her new release out today.  » Read More

Just what we needed today: more Texas music. That looks sarcastic, but I actually mean it. I really want more Texas music, and I’m happy to get it. Today, I’m getting a whole lot of it. The great Houston rapper Maxo Kream has been on a run lately.  » Read More

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The first thing to know about Tyla, Johannesburg’s biggest pop ingenue, is that she has had at least one literal dream about her Spotify numbers going up. The second thing is that she’s proud of that fact. She is strikingly direct about her ambitions, and she consciously (and apparently, subconsciously!) goes about them with the focus of a guided missile.  » Read More

Do you ever think about how there used to be a Salt Lake City sludge-metal band called Gaza? Yeah. Yeah, I know. I’m sure the name was supposed to be unsettling, but maybe we should now file Gaza next to Isis in the “great metal bands whose names have had unforeseen effects on their legacies”  » Read More

Right now, the experimental LA pop duo Magdalena Bay seem primed for a major breakout moment. Their 2021 debut album Mercurial World stirred up a whole lot of excitement, and they followed it with the seven-song EP Mini-Mix Vol. 3 last year. Earlier this week,  » Read More

There are certain things aging rock stars say when they’re a few decades in and releasing their 12th album. They might say they are rocking harder than you’ve heard them in years, that “It’s a lot heavier than you’d expect.” They might say, no, really, “No hyperbole… this is our best work.”  » Read More

Legendary British shoegazers Ride have released a new album, Interplay, today via Wichita and PIAS. Now that it’s out, you can stream the whole thing here. Also, yesterday we posted our rave review of the album and earlier in the month we posted our interview with the band about Interplay.  » Read More