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Jerry David DeCicca – “Long Distance Runner”

Folk-rock musician Jerry David DeCicca has announced his sixth album Cardiac Country . Most of the album, as he explains in its Bandcamp notes, was written a few months before he receieved a scary diagnosis that — despite being in what he thought was the best shape of his life

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Soul Great Jerry Butler Dead At 85

Jerry Butler, the veteran soul hitmaker who became a local Chicago politician, has passed away. Butler was suffering from Parkinson’s disease, and the Chicago Sun-Times reports that he died at home on Thursday night. Butler was 85.

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Counting Crows – “Spaceman In Tulsa”

The ’90s sha-la-la veterans Counting Crows have been coming up on this website a lot lately, largely because people keep covering “A Long December.” (Meanwhile, Counting Crows themselves are out here covering Taylor Swift .) These days, Counting Crows are best-remembered for

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Witch Post – “Dreaming”

Last year, the Scottish musician Dylan Fraser got together with Alaska Reid, a Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter who’s worked with people like A. G. Cook. They formed a new alt-rock duo called Witch Post, and they impressed us with their first two tracks, “ Chill Out ” and “

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J. Cole – “cLOUDs”

J. Cole, the man who got away, has been relatively quiet since he wisely if cornily removed himself from the Drake/Kendrick Lamar beef, which he never should’ve gotten involved in in the first place. A few months ago, Cole shared “ Port Antonio ,” the song where he laid out his

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JENNIE – “ExtraL” (Feat. Doechii)

Next month, Blackpink’s JENNIE will unveil her stacked debut solo album Ruby . Guests include Dua Lipa, Childish Gambino, Kali Uchis, and more, but today she’s unleashing the Doechii collab “ExtraL.”

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Metropolitan Opera Announces Mastodon Talk About Moby-Dick

Herman Melville’s 1851 novel Moby-Dick has inspired a lot of art over the decades: Two examples are Mastodon’s 2004 heavy metal classic Leviathan and, more recently, composer Jake Heggie’s opera that’s also called Moby-Dick . Initially having premiered in Dallas in 2010, that

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Watch Djo Cover Haim For Triple J

Joe Keery, the Stranger Things star-turned-electro-pop artist Djo, will release his new album The Crux this spring. He just finished a tour leg in Australia, where he stopped by Triple J to cover Haim’s “Gasoline” for their Like A Version series.

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Yung Lean – “Forever Yung”

Last month, Yung Lean kicked off 2025 with the announcement of his new album Jonatan . The beloved Swedish rapper is sharing a taste today with the song “Forever Yung” and revealing its release date of May 2.

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