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 Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) has announced that songs made fully with the use of AI will no longer be eligible for its charts. The eligibility update was enshrined in the ...

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 ...

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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 ...

The Hollies, the British pop band that has been active since it formed in Manchester in 1962, have announced that the group’s last two “classic lineup” members, guitarist Tony Hicks and drummer Bobby ...

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Sad but true: Kirk Hammett’s recent fashion choices may have just sparked the fury of the world’s most terrifying fanbase. Taylor Swift fans were not amused by the T-shirt that the Metallica guitarist ...

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After using the “morning pages” technique to write Fruit Bats’ stripped-down, mostly solo 2025 album Baby Man, frontman Eric D. Johnson tried a similar approach in a different context for the ...