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Cusk – “Blue Tac Piano”

London’s Windmill scene needs to slow down. It feels like every damn day we learn about another exciting new band that comes out of this one club. Nobody can keep up! The latest band in that post-punk wave is Cusk, a gothy-grungy young duo who played their first show a few

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Hot Chocolate’s Tony Wilson Dead At 89

Tony Wilson, bassist and co-founder of the hitmaking British soul/funk band Hot Chocolate, has passed away. According to the BBC , Wilson died at home in Trinidad last Friday, and his family shared the news on Facebook. No cause of death has been reported. Wilson was 89. The

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JPEGMAFIA Announces New Album Experimental Rap: Hear “babygirl”

How would you describe JPEGMAFIA’s music? “Experimental rap,” perhaps? Well, that’s the title of the hip-hop provocateur’s upcoming album. The follow-up to 2024’s I Lay Down My Life For You arrives next month, and its lead single “babygirl” is out now. We don’t know much about

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Lividus Lives: The Return Of Uta Plotkin

From 2009 to 2014, Uta Plotkin was the vocalist for the Portland band Witch Mountain. Those years in American doom had the shape of a miniature heavy metal epoch. A half-decade is an eternity in scene years: The term "New Wave of British Heavy Metal" was coined in 1979, and

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Outlaw Country Singer David Allan Coe Dead At 86

The outlaw country star David Allan Coe, a storied figure who leaves a vast and tangled legacy, has died. Coe's wife Kimberly Hastings Coe confirmed his passing to Rolling Stone , though the cause and circumstances of his death have not yet been revealed. Coe was 86, and it's

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Nixon Boyd – “How I Know I’m Home”

Since 2007, Nixon Boyd has been playing guitar in the Canadian indie rock band Hollerado. Last month, he announced his debut solo album Every Time We Turn A Corner and shared “Trouble Of Your Own.” Now, he’s back with “How I Know I’m Home.” “How I Know I’m Home” is melancholy,

Oakwood – “Fields Behind The House”

In 2015, Oakwood shared their debut EP Summer, which contained three tracks of vehement Midwest emo. The Texas-based band then fell into obscurity and the music was taken off streaming platforms. A few years ago, the group reunited and reuploaded the songs, which gained