In 2024, Mastodon played an intimate hometown warmup for their tour under the name Big Hairy Elephant. Last night, they did it again, this time at Atlanta's the Earl with Baroness' John Baizley. The ...

Stella Lefty may not have much style or substance as a songwriter, but at least she knows a good hook when she hears it. Lefty, the Groupon heiress born Stella Lefkofsky, scored one of this year's ...

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For nearly a year now, Drake has been teasing his unfortunately titled new album Iceman, but things really escalated in April when he hid the release date for the project inside a giant block of ice ...

We don’t hear much from Andrew W.K. these days. In 2021, just before he released his album God Is Partying, the hard-partying mystery man announced his engagement to actress Kat Dennings, whom he ...

Michael Shannon and Jason Narducy’s R.E.M. covers show returned to New York City's Brooklyn Steel tonight and Michael Stipe joined them on two songs he hadn’t performed in 18 years: “These Days” (from ...

It’s a bit like naming your band Illmatic, isn’t it? “Dummy” is a great word with lots of fun uses, but if you bring it up in a music-nerd context, people’s brains will all wander to the same lonely, ...

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On Friday, IDM legends Boards of Canada released Inferno, their first album in more than 13 years. The same day also marked the release of the highly anticipated A24 feature Backrooms, adapted from ...

Summer is here, and so is its soundtrack. Whereas some forms of dream-pop sound unmistakably like winter, the Marías make music for sweltering poolsides, afternoons encased in air conditioning, and ...

In The Number Ones, I'm reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart's beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. Britney Spears ...

The death of the album has been proclaimed many times, and after decades of piracy and point-and-click listening, cohesive bodies of work have indeed lost some of their cultural stature. Yet the long ...