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Blood Vulture – “You Fail Me” (Converge Cover)

Remember Two Minutes To Late Night? That was my motherfucking shit. Two Minutes To Late Night started off as a metal-themed late-night talk show parody at the tragically defunct Brooklyn venue St. Vitus, but it turned into something else during the pandemic. The comedian Jordan

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Pitchfork Founder Announces New Memoir Weird Era

It's been five years since Pitchfork founder Ryan Schreiber announced his memoir Weird Era . Back in 2021 , it was tipped for release in 2023 on MCD Books, but plans evidently changed. The good news is that the book is finally coming out this year, now with a different

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Friko – “Something Worth Waiting For”

We only have a few more days left to wait until Friko’s excellent new album Something Worth Waiting For. (They already chatted with Stereogum about it, which you can read here.) Today they’re sharing one last preview with the album’s swooning, big-swinging title track. Vocalist

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Mary In The Junkyard – “Candelabra”

London indie trio Mary In The Junkyard made some noise with their 2024 EP This Old House, and now they’re getting ready to release Role Model Hermit, the full-length debut that they recorded with producer Oli Bayston. We already posted the grand, dramatic lead single “Crash

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Morgan Noise – “Geneva”

Morgan Wallace is a member of the wild London post-punk band Fat Dog. She also fronts her own band called Morgan Noise, performing music with through lines to rock, jazz, and experimental pop. Or at least those are the vibes I’m getting from “Geneva,” the band’s new single out

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Machinedrum Announces New Mini-Album BL00MS: Hear Two Tracks

North Carolina producer Travis Stewart, better known as Machinedrum, has been making dance music for a quarter century. In recent years, Machinedrum has made tracks with stars like Freddie Gibbs and Tinashe, and his most recent album 3FOR82 came out on Ninja Tune in 2024. Now,

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Hooky Release Surprise New Album World Music

The Philadelphia duo Hooky have worked with some of the top names in modern shoegaze, including They Are Gutting A Body Of Water and Winter. Today, we get a fresh chance to hear them on their own. Monday night, with minimal notice, Hooky released World Music, a new 14-song

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Pouty – “My Own Beauty”

Rachel Gagliardi used to be a member of the bands Slutever and Upset, and she started Pouty back in 2013 as a duo with Japanese Breakfast’s Michelle Zauner, releasing one song a day. Pouty evolved into Gagliardi’s solo project, and she released the extremely cool debut album

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Failure – “The Rising Skyline” (Feat. Hayley Williams)

Failure release Location Lost in just a few days. The grunge greats have shared “The Air’s On Fire” and “A Way Down,” and today they’re back with the highly anticipated Hayley Williams collab “The Rising Skyline.” “Failure doesn’t do a lot of collaborations, but my friendship

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Show Me The Body – “Dance In The USA”

For a while now, we’ve been hearing rumbilngs about a new album from Show Me The Body, the difficult-to-describe New York hardcore-ish band. They’ve done a lot of touring and put out a good amount of music in recent years, but they haven’t released a proper album since Trouble

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1976 – The Year Jazz Fusion Died

I really want to write a book about fusion. Not just as a specific musical genre, but as an ethos. Because the music of the six-year span from 1969 to 1975, which I often feel was the best era for music, period, was almost entirely defined by the values of fusion: technological

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Swapmeet Announce Debut Album Mount Zero: Hear “Sand”

Swapmeet impressed us earlier this year with “I Know!,” their first single for their new label home Winspear. Today the Aussie indie rockers have announced a whole debut album, Mount Zero, arriving in July, and we’re also getting another preview with the track “Sand.” “Sand,”

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The Prince 100

The Roots drummer and Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon bandleader counts down his favorite Prince songs — from indelible hits to must-hear deep cuts to classics written for other artists

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