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This spring, the Pet Shop Boys, the duo who have been making excellent conceptual dance-pop jams since the mid-’80s, will release their next album Nonetheless. Last month, when the group dropped lead single “Loneliness,” they said that they were going for orchestral grandeur on the new record.  » Read More

For the past few decades, Martin Sorrondeguy has left a huge imprint on American DIY music. As the frontman of legendary bands Los Crudos and Limp Wrist, Sorrondeguy has radicalized a whole lot of people. A few years ago, Sorrondeguy got together with members of the thrashy Chicago hardcore band Sin Orden to start a new group called Canal Irreal.  » Read More

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If you ask both members of Rage Against The Machine’s rhythm section about the band’s future, you’ll get two different answers. Rage haven’t done anything as a band since 2022, when they wrapped up what was supposed to be the first leg of their latest reunion tour. Because Zack De La Rocha tore his Achilles tendon during the show’s second show,  » Read More

Last year, Lil Yachty released the left-turn psych-rock album Let’s Start Here., and he disparaged all of his older records, suggesting that he was changing up career lanes entirely. But that’s not what’s been happening. Instead, Yachty followed the LP with a string of one-off rap singles.  » Read More

Last month, Cakes Da Killa announced his new album Black Sheep and released the single “Mind Reader,” featuring Stout. Today, the New York hip hop artist is sharing his collaboration with New Orleans singer Dawn Richard for “Do Dat Baby.”  » Read More

Brit-rock legend Paul Weller used to lead the Jam and the Style Council, and he’s been holding down a successful solo career for more than 30 years. Weller’s last album, 2021’s Fat Pop (Volume 1), was a #1 hit in the UK, like many Weller albums before it. Now,  » Read More

Welcome to the seventh Songs of the Week of 2024. This week Andy Von Pip, Caleb Campbell, Mark Moody, Scott Dransfield, and Stephen Humphries all helped me decide what should make the list. We settled on a Top 8 this week, narrowed down from the 20 songs we seriously considered.  » Read More

Released on Valentine’s Day in 1994, Bark Psychosis’ Hex is an aptly named album as it casts a spellbinding hypnosis on the listener. Hex could be considered ahead of its time but more accurately it still sounds lost out of time.  » Read More