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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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Currents haunts Tame Impala like a ghost. Or an ex who won’t leave you alone. Since its release ten years ago, it’s become the de facto control against which to measure all of Kevin Parker’s releases ...

“Hard to Handle,” indeed. Black Crowes frontman Chris Robinson received a less-than-warm welcome at his concert in Tampa on Sunday night when he mocked fans chanting “USA.” The band’s Southern ...