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Seattle indie rockers Chastity Belt have been making fuzzy, beatific music for 15 years now, and we gave Album Of The Week honors to their last LP, 2024’s Live Laugh Love. A couple of weeks ago, Chastity Belt released two tracks, “I Could Say Less” and “Pavement.” As it turns out, both of those songs will appear on Chastity Belt’s …

Fontaines D.C.’s upcoming Dopamine Chamber promises to be one of the biggest rock albums of the fall, and it could be something special. The band has been debuting new songs live lately, and we’ve already heard lead single “Marianne.” The record has the group’s first-ever featured-guest collaborator: Rosalía, who shows up on the as-yet-unheard “Where Is Gone?” Today, Fontaines share …

Scottish post-rock warriors Mogwai have had a hell of a run over the past 30 years or so. Early next year, they’ll release a career-spanning collection under the title Happy Tears. It’s funny to think that Mogwai are the kind of band to put out a greatest-hits album, but it also makes its own kind of sense. That compilation will …

Fairly often these days, I see a fresh round of social-media discourse on whether or not R.E.M. have been forgotten, whether new generations don’t appreciate what the college-rock godfathers brought to the game. Basically, people constantly talk about whether R.E.M. get talked about enough, which would certainly suggest that they do get talked about. R.E.M. haven’t been a band for …

In 1979, two British musicians, singer David Cowles and producer/multi-instrumentalist Richard Haines, got together to form a synthpop duo called 50/50. At the time, both of them had demanding careers outside of music, and they weren’t willing to devote themselves to the group full-time. Every week, though, they spent multiple nights writing songs together, and they built up quite a …

You guys know about horsegiirL, right? Not Horsegirl, the Brooklyn-via-Chicago indie rock band who released the album Phonetics On And On last year. That’s a different thing. Know your horse bands. I’m talking about horsegiirL, AKA Stella Stallion, the Berlin-based dance/hyperpop artist who wears a horse mask and describes herself as “half-horse, half-human.” The gimmick has been working for her. …

Emma Ogier is a young alt-rock singer-songwriter from Houston who seems to be on a very sharp upward trajectory. Ogier was a teenager during the pandemic, and she developed her twangy and oblique sound in relative isolation. Then she moved to Nashville and released a series of independent singles, starting in 2023. She recently signed with Lost Highway and assisted …

Lil Wayne appears to be officially off the market. The 44-year-old Hip Hop icon has announced his engagement to 23-year-old Madison “Madi” Cannon, revealing the news while congratulating fellow Hot… The post Lil Wayne Announces Engagement to 23-Year-Old Madi Cannon on Social Media Months After Denying It appeared first on .

Any Gorillaz performance, like any Gorillaz record, tends to include a whole lot of guest performers. Right now, Damon Albarn and his various cartoon associates are touring North American arenas with Little Simz and Deltron 3030. You can be assured that Simz and Del The Funky Homosapien will join Gorillaz during their headlining set, as will touring staples like De …