Long-form essays on the albums, artists, and moments that shaped music history.
Hardtekk has a piep kick. If you have spent time on TikTok in the last six months and felt something violent and oddly satisfying happen to your nervous...
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In the middle of March 2026, something quietly significant happened to the UK music charts. Physical sales made through Bandcamp, vinyl records and CDs and tapes bought directly...
A Charlie Daniels hologram is set to perform at a Fourth of July concert at Fort Campbell military base in Kentucky. The announcement came this week from Daniels’...
Dua Lipa has joined the cast of Peaked, an A24 comedy film, and the announcement was met with approximately the level of surprise you would expect: not much....
Gnarls Barkley’s Crazy was number one in the UK for nine weeks in 2006. It was the first song to reach that position based solely on download sales....
Actress and Suzanne Ciani released Concrete Waves last week with less than twenty-four hours’ notice. No press cycle. No singles. No rollout. Just: here it is. That approach...
Paul McCartney is 83 years old and he just announced a new album. The Boys of Dungeon Lane is out May 29 on MPL/Capitol, produced with Andrew Watt,...
Ross “The Boss” Friedman died on March 27 at age 72, after a battle with ALS that he had disclosed publicly just two months earlier. He was known...
When Kanye West released Bully on March 28, James Blake did something that almost no collaborator in pop music ever does. He publicly asked for his credit to...
When Zakk Wylde released Ozzy’s Song this week as part of Black Label Society’s new album Engines of Demolition, it landed the way these things usually land: as...
Pulp came back from the dead in 2011, toured extensively, reminded everyone why “Common People” is still the definitive class-anxiety anthem in the British rock canon, and then...
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