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Mastodon Announce New Pickles

Big day for metalheads who enjoy fermented cucumbers: Mastodon have announced their own pickles. The venture is done in collaboration with Kelly’s Death Pickles, with each jar priced at an affordable $10.

Shaboozey Tops Hot 100, Chappell Roan Scores First Top 10 Hit

Shaboozey, the Nigeria-born, Virginia-raised country singer, now has the #1 song in the country. All year long Shaboozey has been building steam with “A Bar Song (Tipsy),” which cleverly flips J-Kwon’s signature song (itself a #2 smash in 2004, stuck behind Usher’s “Yeah!”)

Band To Watch: Font

In Cormac McCarthy’s 2017 essay “ The Kekulé Problem ,” the late novelist defines the subconscious as “a machine for operating an animal.” He goes into detail about the German organic chemist August Kekulé, who was puzzled over the molecular structure for benzene until Kekulé’s

Stealers Wheel’s Joe Egan Dead At 77

Joe Egan, the Scottish singer-songwriter who cowrote “Stuck In The Middle With You” as one half of Stealers Wheel with Gerry Rafferty, has died at age 77. The official Rafferty Facebook page, run by Rafferty’s daughter, confirmed Egan’s death with a message Sunday:

Armlock – “Fear”

Armlock, the Australian duo of Simon Lam (who you may know from Kllo and Nearly Oratorio) and Hamish Mitchell, are just days away from the release of new album Seashell Angel Lucky Charm . The album is just 18 minutes long, so by sharing a third advance track today — to go

Posthumous Mark Lanegan Release Teased

It’s been a little over two years since Mark Lanegan died . Since then, his Twitter/X account has stayed dormant — that is, until yesterday, when whoever’s running the account teased an upcoming posthumous release.

Wishy – “Sick Sweet”

Next month, the Indianapolis Band To Watch Wishy will unveil their debut album, Triple Seven . The Indianapolis crew have shared “ Love On The Outside ” and the title track, and today they’re sharing the blissful headrush “Sick Sweet.”

Eugene Robinson Leaves Oxbow

Since the foundation of the band in 1988, Eugene Robinson has been the singer of Oxbow, providing an intense and expressive vocal style that has helped to define the San Francisco experimentalists’ sound. That’s coming to an end. In a message posted to his Substack , Robinson

Odesza Show Ends With Brush Fire Caused By Pyrotechnics

The West Coast is being ravaged by wildfires right now, from the Los Angeles area all the way up to Quincy, Washington, home of the Gorge Amphitheatre. Festival mainstays Odesza played the venue Saturday night, but their set was cut short when a brush fire broke out close by.