At this point, it’s safe to say that longtime listeners know what to expect from a new Ty Segall album: seismic blues-scale riffs, yowled melodies, glinting solos, an artful cocktail of brute force ...

Punching the Clown begins with a gently strummed acoustic and a sweet, twanging banjo. In a limpid, world-weary voice, Kurt Wagner explains, “I’m a human calculator, and I never make mistakes.” That ...

The surprise settlement between Live Nation and the Department of Justice, only a week into the company’s federal antitrust trial, was down to Donald Trump’s intervention. As reported by the Wall ...

Stella Lefty has revealed that Noah Kahan’s writing credit on her viral hit “Boston” was the result of an impending lawsuit. Everybody’s got different definitions for what an interpolation ought to be ...

It seems Phoebe Bridgers’ winning streak has hit a roadblock. The Los Angeles singer-songwriter recently celebrated her 32nd birthday shortly after releasing her first album in six years, Lost Weekend ...

Today Fontaines D.C. announced their new album Dopamine Chamber with its lead single “Marianne.” The song arrives with a music video directed by Dave Meyers, who’s done the clips for Kendrick Lamar’s ...

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Lip Critic revels in absurd tales of their own making: a guy who stuffs his shirt with pork to make it look like he’s really bleeding when you stab him; a guy who thinks he sees his wife getting it on ...

Willie Nelson has joined a growing chorus of stars warning against the construction of A.I. data centers. In an open letter posted to his Instagram on Tuesday, the 93-year-old country icon scorned the ...

Since launching Gorillaz, Blur singer Damon Albarn and artist Jamie Hewlett have used the animated characters that make up their group—2D, Murdoc, Russel, and Noodle—as avatars for exploring their ...

The Velvet Underground are one of the most mythologized bands in history, for good reasons and bad. Their avant-garde rock was way ahead of its time, and Lou Reed was one of the greatest American ...