Thus far this year, New Orleans’ Twisted Teens have already released two albums of awesomely swampy lo-fi garage-punk, Blame The Clown and Florida Water Blues. A third is on deck. Twisted Teens have made the leap to Sub Pop Records, and their new LP The Holy Cross Tigers drops next month. We already posted lead single “When We First Met,” …

Right now, the indie rock world is in the process of discovering Emily Moales, the prolific Philly-based New Hampshire native who records extremely cool DIY music under the name Star Moles. The Star Moles discography is deep, with dozens of releases going back nearly a decade, but the recent album Highway To Hell, one of our favorites of the year, …

St. Louis musician Martin Meyer used to lead the punk band Lumpy And The Dumpers and run the label Lumpy Records. Since 2020, Meyer has been cranking out playful lo-fi power-pop under the name Soup Activists. (He’s really the only Soup Activist.) Thus far, Soup Activists have released a handful of EPs and one full-length, 2024’s Mummy What Are Flowers …

At this point, it feels like the music industry has simply adapted streaming bot-farmers into the business, but at least someone is facing some penalties for running up fake numbers. Earlier this year, the 54-year-old North Carolina singer-songwriter Mike Smith pleaded guilty for defrauding streaming services after he posted hundreds of thousands of AI-generated tracks and used bots to rack …

Back in May, Paul McCartney released his first new album in six years, a nostalgic look back at his Liverpool childhood called The Boys Of Dungeon Lane. It featured his first-ever duet with Beatles bandmate Ringo Starr on “Home To Us,” and it earned him his first nomination for the UK’s Mercury Prize. Today he releases a digital deluxe edition …

If you haven’t been to a Turnstile show anytime recently, it’s truly a thing to witness. Turnstile have always put on hugely energetic shows, and while their pits aren’t as crazy as they were back in the no-barrier days, but the way they get vast crowds to go off is downright astonishing. To most of us, the Turnstile pit looks …

Miley, the pop veteran who recently dropped the “Cyrus” from her stage name, had the #1 album in America last week. This week, things look starkly different. Her new album Bass Persuades debuted at #1 last week. Its 61,000 album equivalent units were enough to temporarily sneak past Ella Langley’s Dandelion and give Miley her first #1 album since 2013’s …

DJ Akademiks is putting a staggering number behind Drake’s post-battle run, claiming the Toronto superstar is generating somewhere between $20 million and $25 million every month. Sheesh. Akademiks made the… The post DJ Akademiks Claims Drake Is Pulling In $25M a Month Since 2024 appeared first on .

So the narrative about Democratic cities being crime ridden is really aging like milk these days. New Orleans was being called the nation’s “Murder Capital” just four years ago. Now… The post New Orleans Closing In on Lowest Murder Count Since 1971 After Historic Crime Drop appeared first on .

Andrew and Tristan Tate’s already heinous accusations are escalating as newly reported British court filings reveal disturbing allegations at the center of the United Kingdom’s effort to extradite the brothers… The post UK Court Filings Detail Disturbing New Allegations Against Andrew and Tristan Tate in Extradition Fight appeared first on .