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Four new releases just dropped, and the range here is wild. Tinashe keeps her hot streak rolling after last year's Quantum Baby, still riding the "Nasty" wave that made 2024 hers.
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Taylor Swift is back with fresh material, her first drop since that lavish Madison Square Garden wedding got everyone talking. It's a moment.
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Madonna is opening the VMAs this weekend, and the anticipation is real. This is her stage, always has been, going back to that 1984 rollaround through "Like a Virgin" that turned the show into a…
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Phoebe Bridgers is going to the movies, and not just for the soundtrack. She's landed a starring role in a new Lance Oppenheim film opposite Robert Pattinson, a casting curveball nobody had on the…
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Taylor Swift is back with The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore, an expanded edition of her latest record.
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Brakence is back. The first new solo material since Hypochondriac dropped in 2022 is finally on the way, and that alone is reason to buzz.
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Morphine are back with a new album, and this one's built from the vault. Mark Sandman, the late frontman with that deep, lascivious baritone and the two-string slide bass, remains one of rock's true…
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serpentwithfeet is back with a new EP called Sentinel. The Baltimore-born, New York-based artist has spent his whole career mining R&B tradition through the lens of queer desire, and it's been a…
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Something In The Way just dropped its 2027 lineup, and it's a stunner. Run For Cover Records has been building this Boston festival into something special, and next year they've outdone themselves.
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The War On Drugs just dropped another new one live in Birmingham. The track is called "Now We're Talkin'," and it landed for the crowd like the band never left.
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Anthony Naples is back with two new tracks, and the New York producer is on a roll.
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Spencer Radcliffe is back under his Blithe Field name, and the timing feels right. His new album, Soft Core Hard Wear, lands next month via Orindal Records, the follow-up to 2023's Grits Kissed.
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U2 are back, and they mean it. It has been nearly nine years since Songs Of Experience dropped in 2017, and now, right on their 50th anniversary, the Irish giants return with a new LP called Carnaval…
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Cameron Winter dropped new material at a secret solo-piano show in New Orleans on Tuesday night. No fanfare, no rollout, just the Geese frontman testing fresh tracks in an intimate room.
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Michael Kiwanuka is back with a self-produced new LP. The record was written "almost concurrently" with 2024's Small Changes, which means these tracks come from the same creative rush that gave us…
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Ezra Collective are still building, and drummer Femi Koleoso is still just 31. That fact floored me.
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Full circle moment right here. Scarlett Johansson and Tom Waits are teaming up again, this time co-starring in the new Netflix animated film Ray Gunn.
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Yangze is stepping into the spotlight. That's the birth nickname of Jakob Littauer, the latest avant-pop upstart to rise out of Copenhagen, and he's got a debut album locked in.
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Slayyyter just took "Birds" for a spin, and she's already made it her own. She debuted her live cover of the Turnstile track for the first time, and the room felt it.
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Show Me The Body just covered Charli XCX's "Rock Music," and they took the joke literally.
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RIP Magic are done teasing. The genre-blurring London quartet turned a pair of 2025 tracks into a proper wave of buzz, and 2026 has been their year already. Remember "5words" back in January?
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Kai Slater does not stop. The young Chicago auteur splits his time between Lifeguard and Sharp Pins, his own project of shimmering '60s-style gems, and he's frighteningly good at both.
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This Is The Kit are back with another one. Kate Stables, the Paris-based songwriter who has been folding folk into indie rock since the days of "Moonshine Freeze," has announced a new LP called Ghost…
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Justin Bieber pulled up to MacArthur Park and just started playing. No stage, no rollout, no warning.
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