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 ...

The Kennedy Center has been ordered to cover $252,479.70 in legal fees for jazz musician Chuck Redd, whom it sued in March after he canceled a concert at the Center. Redd backed out of the late-2025 ...

Team Trump, the TikTok account launched by Donald Trump’s campaign in July 2024, has been using Taylor Swift songs—as well as other popular music—for months to soundtrack their videos, but it seems ...

“I’ve been known to throw a tantrum when things are not the way I imagine them,” Phoebe Bridgers confesses on the title track to her third solo album Lost Weekend. In the six years since her ...

Not all roads lead to a Mountain Goats record. However, after more than three decades and, by lead Goat John Darnielle’s own count, “something-something” studio albums, it’s safe to say that almost ...

One of the biggest paradoxes of pop culture exposure in the 2020s is the limitless availability of decades’ worth of recorded media alongside the absence of a monoculture. What constitutes “mainstream ...

On Man/Woman/Chainsaw’s debut album, the London art-rock sextet live up to the compelling fracture their name evokes. In an early press statement, guitarist-singer Billy Ward described how they’re ...