A few months ago, Matt Proxy, a 19-year-old rapper/producer from Minneapolis, went viral for his closing verse on the 2026 Underground Sound cypher, a kind of summit meeting of extremely-online rage-rap kids. This summer, Proxy will tour with JPEGMAFIA. He’ll also release his debut album Trojan Hose, which is set to feature some prominent guests. The post Matt Proxy Announces …

While Morrissey is still popular enough to headline festivals in America, his career suffered in the past few years, largely thanks to evidence of his fucked-up political ties, such as the time that he wore a button supporting the right-wing extremist group For Britain while performing on The Tonight Show in 2019. Last year, though, Morrissey claimed that he was …

Olivia Rodrigo’s heavily anticipated new album you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love is finally out today. As if the great early singles “drop dead” and “the cure” and the involvement of figures like Robert Smith and Weyes Blood hadn’t already convinced the discerning listeners of the world to care, Rodrigo did a ton of promo on …

Bob Dylan, still a tireless road dog at 85, loves to pull out a random deep cut at a random show. Dylan is now 64 years and 40 studio albums deep into his career, so his catalog is vast, and he can pick from a lot of tracks. Last week, for instance, Dylan kicked off the latest leg of his …

The anonymous, elaborately costumed Montreal microtonal math-rock duo Angine de Poitrine are one of the more charming viral success stories in recent memory. Ever since the band’s KEXP session went nuclear early this year, they’ve been getting the rock-star treatment, including high placement on festival lineups, heavy demand on Record Store Day, huge streaming numbers, and even tribute performances halfway …

Prolific country-rock megastar Zach Bryan loves to drop a new track without warning or context. Sometimes, that music never even appears on streaming services. Sometimes, it’s just a video of him playing an unreleased song acoustic. Since his self-produced records are so resolutely lo-fi, there’s often little difference between that audio and the stuff that he puts on his records. …

Stranger Cole, the Jamaican singer who was a big part of the ska and rocksteady boom in the ’60s, has passed away. Jamaica Observer reports that Cole died at Kingston’s University Hospital Of The West Indies on Thursday. Cole’s son Wilburn “Squiddly” Cole says that his father was admitted to the hospital two weeks ago after a long illness, but …

Because its peer-to-peer file sharing software was so revolutionary for music fans, Napster looms large in the minds of a whole generation. Thus, the Napster IP has changed hands many times over the past quarter-century as companies including Roxio, Best Buy, Rhapsody, MelodyVR, and Hivemind have attempted to attach the Napster brand name to on-demand streaming services and internet radio. …

Fenix Flexin is a longtime member of Shoreline Mafia, the LA rap crew who had a run of huge regional success a few years ago. Right now, though, he’s having a wave of success for a completely different reason. Last week, Fenix released “Rubberz,” a fussy and synthy dance-pop track where he sings in a British accent, almost doing a …

It’s not like Taylor Swift ever disappears for any extended stretch of time, but pop music’s reigning superstar has been especially active for the past week. Last Friday, she released her Toy Story 5 soundtrack song “I Knew It, I Knew You.” On Tuesday, she performed that song and sang with Randy Newman at the film’s premiere. On Wednesday, she …