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Watch Eddie Vedder Cover The Police’s “Message In A Bottle” With Stewart...
Eddie Vedder just released the new solo album Earthling, and he’s been touring with a star-studded backing band called the Earthlings that includes Glen Hansard, Jane’s Addiction’s Chris Chaney,...
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Kanye West And Beach House Hit The Studio Together
Kanye West just released a version of his new album Donda 2 exclusively on his Donda Stem Player. The first 16 tracks feature Migos, Jack Harlow, Soulja Boy, Travis Scott, and more… and the next batch...
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Queens’ New LETSGETFR.EE Carnaval Announces Missy Elliott, Wizkid, Anderson...
LETSGETFR.EE Carnaval is a new music festival from AFROPUNK founder Matthew Morgan, partner Jocelyn Cooper, and creative agency Anomaly. Taking place on August 20 and 21st at the coveted festival...
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Dua Lipa Sued By Florida Reggae Band For Allegedly Stealing “Levitating”
Dua Lipa had a major hit with a remix of her 2020 Future Nostalgia track “Levitating” featuring the now-cancelled rapper DaBaby. Although it peaked at #2, the song spent 41 weeks on the Billboard Hot...
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POND –“Lights Of Leeming”
Australian psych-rock band POND released their ninth studio album, aptly entitled 9, late last year. This spring, they’re releasing a deluxe edition of the album featuring etching and a holographic...
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Robyn –“Buffalo Stance” (Neneh Cherry Cover)
One Swedish icon is reimagining a hit by another Swedish icon, as Neneh Cherry has tapped Robyn to cover her 1988 club-rap banger “Buffalo Stance.” Blood Orange mastermind Dev Hynes contributes...
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Residente Calls J Balvin A Racist Imbecile On New Diss Track
Residente and J Balvin have been feuding since September, when Balvin accused the Latin Grammys of discriminating against reggaeton artists and called for a boycott (despite being nominated three...
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Mark McGuire –“Keep Going”
Former Emeralds guitarist Mark McGuire has been releasing extremely pretty loop-based ambient guitar music on his own for years now. And today, for the first Bandcamp Friday of Bandcamp’s new era, he’s...
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Ed Sheeran Is “A Magpie [Who] Borrows Ideas” Argues Prosecution In “Shape Of...
Ed Sheeran already gave the writers of TLC’s “No Scrubs” songwriting credit for his 2017 hit “Shape Of You.” And today, The Guardian reports, he appeared in court for the first day of a three-week...
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Watch Hurray For The Riff Raff Play “Pierced Arrows” On Colbert
We named Life On Earth, Hurray For The Riff Rafff’s first album in five years and their first for Nonesuch Records, our Album Of The Week a couple of weeks ago. Alynda Segarra is heading out on a North...
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Battle Ave –“Black Jeans”
Battle Ave are releasing I Saw The Egg, their first new full-length album in seven years, next month. They’ve already shared the tracks “Maya,” “Leo,” “Core,” and “Fool.” And today, for Bandcamp...
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Sam Smith And Normani Sued For Stealing “Dancing With A Stranger”
In 2015, Tom Petty was awarded a songwriting credit for Sam Smith’s “Stay With Me” due to its resemblance to “Don’t Back Down.” And now, Rolling Stone reports, Sam Smith is facing a copyright...
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Watch David Byrne’s America Utopia Perform “Burning Down The House” On CBS...
David Byrne’s American Utopia is currently in its second run on Broadway. And today, he stopped by CBS Saturday Morning along with his 12-piece marching band to perform “Burning Down The House” and...
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Stream JEFF The Brotherhood’s New Ye Olde... EP
JEFF The Brotherhood, the band made up of Nashville brothers Jake and Jamin Orrall that now also includes second guitarist Kunal Prakash, returned last year with a new 7-inch single. And today, they’re...
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Watch Sting Play Newly Relevant “Russians” In Support Of Help Ukraine
Sting has posted a video of himself playing his 1985 song “Russians” — one of the essential ’80s songs about nuclear anxiety — in support of Help Ukraine, an initiative to send medicine and...
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Frog Eyes –“I Was An Oligarch”
Just four years after releasing their “final” album and breaking up, Frog Eyes are back. The Vancouver indie-rock greats are releasing their new album The Bees next month, and we’ve already heard one...
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Jane Lai –“Age Carry”
Teenage Halloween keyboardist Jane Lai is stepping out on her own with the release of her debut solo single. “Age Carry” is a lovely little DIY folk-pop song that Lai tells Brooklyn Vegan is about...
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Melody’s Echo Chamber –“Personal Message”
Melody Prochet announced the new Melody’s Echo Chamber album Emotional Eternal and shared its lead single “Looking Backward” back in January. And today, the French psych-pop artist is back with...
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Girl Talk, Wiz Khalifa, Big K.R.I.T., & Smoke DZA –“Put You On”
In recent years, Girl Talk has moved away from his influential mashup work and started focusing on rap production. And today, the artist born Greg Gillis is announcing Full Court Press, a collaborative...
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Destroyer –“June”
Dan Bejar is releasing the new Destroyer album LABYRINTHITIS in a couple of weeks. We’ve already heard the singles “Tintoretto, It’s for You” and “Eat The Wine, Drink The Bread,” and today, we’re...
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Tomberlin –“tap”
Artist To Watch alum Tomberlin is finally releasing her sophomore album i don’t know who needs to ear this… at the end of April. “The theme of the record,” Sarah Beth Tomberlin says, “is to examine,...
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Louder Than Life 2022 Headlined By NIN, Slipknot, KISS, & RHCP
Nine Inch Nails, Slipknot, KISS, and Red Hot Chili Peppers are headlining the 2022 edition of Louisville’s Louder Than Life festival, which bills itself as the World’s Largest Rock ‘N’ Roll Whiskey...
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The Notorious B.I.G. Estate Announces NFTs To Commemorate Today’s 25th...
You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become an NFT. Today, on the 25th anniversary of Biggie’s death, his estate has announced an exclusive partnership with the Quincy...
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Ed Schrader’s Music Beat –“European Moons”
Ed Schrader’s Music Beat, the Baltimore duo of Ed Schrader and Devlin Rice, are releasing their new album Nightclub Daydreaming in a couple of weeks. We’ve already heard the tracks “This Thirst,”...
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Tess Parks –“Brexit At Tiffany’s”
Toronto-born, London-based artist and Anton Newcombe collaborator Tess Parks is releasing her new solo album And Those Who Were Seen Dancing in May. And today, following lead single “Happy Birthday...
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Watch Pavement’s New “Harness Your Hopes” Video Starring Yellowjackets‘...
“Harness Your Hopes,” an obscure Pavement B-side tacked onto the CD-only Spit On A Stranger EP in 1999, has found a surprising new life in recent years. Thanks to the mysterious forces of the Spotify...
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Watch The Trailer For Netflix’s Metal Lords Comedy From Tom Morello & The...
Game Of Thrones co-creator D.B. Weiss is a longtime metalhead who got Mastodon to pop up on the show twice. So it makes some sense that his new movie Metal Lords — directed by Peter Sollett, with Weiss...
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Watch Flea Join Nick Cave & Warren Ellis On “We No Who U R” In LA
“I’m forever near a stereo saying, ‘What the fuck is this garbage?’ And the answer is always the Red Hot Chili Peppers,” Nick Cave reportedly said in 2004. But last night, RHCP bassist Flea joined Cave...
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Jordana –“Pressure Point”
Young indie-pop artist Jordana announced her new album Face The Wall — which is technically her sophomore record but her official studio debut — last month. And today, following lead single “Catch My...
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Alanis Morissette –“Olive Branch”
Alanis Morissette just announced new dates for her world tour celebrating the 25th anniversary of Jagged Little Pill. She’ll be supported by Beth Orton in Europe in June, and Garbage are joining her...
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Moderat –“Easy Prey”
Moderat, the trio made up of Modeselektor’s Gernot Bronsert and Sebastian Szary and Apparat’s Sascha Ring, are coming back in May with MORE D4TA, their first new album in six years. They announced the...
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Willie Nelson –“Energy Follows Thought”
Willie Nelson is releasing his new album A Beautiful Time on 4/29, his 89th birthday. We’ve already heard lead single “I’ll Love You Till The Day I Die.” And today, just after the passing of Nelson’s...
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Thought For Food Turns 20
“Aleatoric,” a sampled voice intones amidst crystalline chimes on “Read, Eat, Sleep,” the second track on the Books’ 2002 debut album Thought For Food. “Aleatoric. Alea-toric. Aleatoric,” others...
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It’s Album Time Turns 10
“Cartoonish” is often used pejoratively. But there’s a reason that cartoons have been the reigning entertainment of choice for children and stoners alike for decades: They’re colorful, they’re...
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