Look who’s back! Carly Rae Jepsen, queen of critically acclaimed cult-favorite pop stars, has recently been teasing a return, and it’s about time. Jepsen never stops touring, but she hasn’t dropped a new album since 2022’s The Loneliest Time and its 2023 companion piece The Loveliest Time. She’s back in a few months with a big new double album called …

Clive Davis, one of the most successful and iconic executives in the history of the record business, has passed away. Over decades in the business, Davis pushed the careers of stars like Barry Manilow, Whitney Houston, and Alicia Keys, as well as signing dozens of others. The New York Times reports that Davis passed away at home in Manhattan today, …

The UK hardcore scene is fertile ground these days, and London’s Dynamite are among its many standouts. Dynamite haven’t released a full-length yet, but they’ve already played all over the world and perfected their driven, purposeful, straight-ahead style. Dynamite collaborated with people like High Vis’ Graham Sayle and Turnstile’s Meg Mills on their 2023 debut EP Blow The Bloody Doors …

Despite a personality-defining affinity for esoteric electronics, I am not a Boards Of Canada diehard. When I want IDM, I usually reach for Aphex Twin or Squarepusher. In the scope of 1990s Warp Records, I am partial to Seefeel, Two Lone Swordsmen, and Plaid. Even the way I discovered the Scottish project in high school left me cold: A chatty …

The queer, feminist punk band Team Dresch started in Portland in 1993, and they inspired a whole lot of people before breaking up in 1998. They didn’t stay broken up for long. Team Dresch played their first reunion show in 2004, and they’ve been touring sporadically since then. Back in 2019, they shared “Your Hands In My Pockets,” their first …

Perhaps you’re familiar with Star Moles, the ultra-prolific recording project from Philadelphia musician Emily Moales; her recent album Highway To Hell is one of our favorites of the year thus far. Perhaps you’re also familiar with Rubber Band Gun, the similarly ultra-prolific project from regular Star Moles contributor Kevin Basko; Rubber Band Gun and Star Moles dropped the song “Frodoboy” …

John Ross, the man behind the New York-based project Wild Pink, is one of the most consistently great, sincerely specific songwriters working in indie rock today. If you’re not familiar, then “Box Store,” the opening track from the forthcoming Wild Pink LP Still Coming Down, might serve as a great entry point. It’s a beatific, harmonica-laced ode to a window-unit …

Earlier this month, Death Cab For Cutie released I Built You A Tower, their first album on ANTI- Records — revisit our wonderful chat about the band’s new era with frontman Ben Gibbard, bassist Nick Harmer, and drummer Jason McGerr. In a new video out today, Gibbard plays a stripped-down cover of Hüsker Dü’s “Green Eyes” for SiriusXM with his …

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