In 2022, the Mighty Mighty Bosstones broke up . The band never confirmed it, but it sure seemed like the breakup was a response to frontman Dicky Barrett being loudly anti-vaccine. Just before the breakup, Barrett recorded a song for a Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. anti-vaxxer rally.
The ambitious young Michigan-founded Band To Watch Racing Mount Pleasant impressed a lot of us with their self-titled album this year, their second overall and first since changing their name from Kingfisher. Personally, I'm eager to hear more songs from the emo/post-rock
The singer and actress has been nominated for Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role, Motion Picture at the 2026 Golden Globes for her role as Glinda in Wicked: For Good
Porridge Radio have officially signed off. Back in January, shortly after the release of final album Clouds In The Sky They Will Always Be There For Me , the fiery, beloved London indie band announced their impending breakup and one last EP, February's Machine Starts To Sing .
Atlanta rap star 21 Savage started 2024 with the release of his impressive album american dream . He'll end 2025 with the release of another LP, which is coming out with minimal advance notice. Today, Savage posted a cryptic trailer for a new LP called What Happened To The
Perhaps you've head the news that Shirley Manson does not want beach balls at Garbage shows or anywhere near her ever. In a moment that's now gone viral from the band's set at Melbourne's Good Things festival last week, Manson angrily cussed out a man in the audience for
The band will perform I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning and Digital Ash in a Digital Urn in full next year
Bob Dylan cannot and will not stay off the road. Dylan played dozens of gigs in 2025. He joined Willie Nelson's Outlaw Music Festival tour. He made surprising cover choices — the Pogues , Ricky Nelson , an obscure recent Van Morrison song . Next year, Dylan will turn 85, and
Portland power-pop guy Bory blessed us with debut album Who’s A Good Boy this time two years ago. Today the musician born Brenden Ramirez is back with another gem, the cheekily titled “We’ll Burn That Bridge When We Get To It.” It’s an uptempo analog rocker with abundant hooks
Last year, the masked, anonymous, post-Ghost British quasi-metal duo Sleep Token merited a great deal of discussion in Eli Enis' great Stereogum piece about the new class of stadium-metal acts . Since then, Sleep Token have had a banner year. They scored their first-ever #1
From heartfelt tributes to tradition to orchestral reminders to embrace the present, here’s what we loved this year
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The Netflix release is nominated for Best Motion Picture, Animated, as well as Cinematic and Box Office Achievement, while “Golden” is up for Best Original Song – Motion Picture
Billy McFarland finally did it! He managed to stage an event that could at least charitably be described as a music festival, and the event actually happened! McFarland is best-known as the man behind the Fyre Fest, the notorious 2017 boondoggle that famously did not happen.
So... what kind of a year was 2025 for jazz? Well, it marked the centennial of saxophonist Gene Ammons, drummer Roy Haynes, critic Nat Hentoff, pianist Jutta Hipp, saxophonist Art Pepper, pianist Oscar Peterson, drummer Dom Um Romão, and all-around performer Sammy Davis, Jr.
The cinematic awards race kicked off in earnest this morning, when Marlon Wayans and Skye P. Marshall announced the nominees for next year's Golden Globe Awards. As usual, the nominations included a bunch of big musical names, and not just in the Best Original Song and Best
The songs marked the Nigerian superstar’s first and latest singles of the year, respectively
A new category recognizes a more modern Nashville sound
Kpop Demon Hunters ruled the world, Blackpink kept getting bigger, and new artists broke rules
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For the fifth year in a row, Dylan is taking songs from his 2020 LP, Rough and Rowdy Ways, to venues across America
The beloved Puerto Rican musician inspired generations of Latin artists, including Bad Bunny
“I’m beyond excited to finally share a little bit of what I’ve been working on over the last year,” the singer and eldest daughter of Dave Grohl says
The Latin star was joined by stars like Marco Antonio Solis and Mariah Angeliq in the mega-production
Farewell, at least for now, to Foxing. A couple of months ago — not that long after releasing their self titled fifth studio album — the emo-inclined indie rockers announced an indefinite hiatus , citing the fact that their "relationship with music, each other, and our sense of
Stephen Malkmus and Kurt Vile both headlined Raised By Sound Fest in Memphis, Tennessee last night. The respective Pavement and Violators frontmen teamed up to pay homage to Memphis' own Oblivians, doing a cover of their 1996 hedonistic anthem "Feel Real Good." The post Kurt
The Kennedy Center has officially embraced its first post-"woke" class of honorees. Over the summer, Donald Trump announced that the institution will honor KISS, Sylvester Stallone, George Strait, Gloria Gaynor, and Phantom Of The Opera star Michael Crawford, explaining : "We
The Harlem rapper talks his seventh studio album, the blog era that shaped him, and selling paintings at Art Basel
The White House's social media strategy of late has been pretty simple: Use a pop star's song in a video depicting mass deportations, spark outrage from said pop star, gain hundreds of thousands of views from said outrage, and then remove the audio before facing legal
