After teaming with his brother Josh on modern classics like Good Time and Uncut Gems, filmmaker Benny Safdie is making his solo directorial debut this Oscar-bait season with The Smashing Machine, which doubles as Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson’s big prestige gambit. The film stars Johnson, opposite Emily Blunt, as amateur wrestler and MMA fighter Mark Kerr, and though the character …

Jeff Tweedy changed my life. Ever since 2002, when I fell hard for Yankee Hotel Foxtrot after reading all those rave reviews, Wilco have been one of the mainstays of my music fandom. I’ve probably seen them live more than any other band, always hoping to hear “Misunderstood.” I return to their canonical classics frequently, sometimes for comfort and sometimes …

How’s this for a Friday news dump: Trouble In Mind Records has ceased operations. The Chicago independent record label has been one of the brightest lights in underground rock over the past 16 years, putting out music by greats including FACS, the Tubs, Omni, Dummy, Connections, David Nance, Ultimate Painting, the Fresh & Onlys, and beyond. Unfortunately, label founders Bill …

AI was a problem for Spotify long before Daniel Ek invested in AI weapons of war, causing a growing number of artists to remove their music from the platform in protest. Some artist pages on the streaming service have been infested with fake songs, many of them AI-generated. The people at Spotify apparently recognize this is a problem, and they’ve …

AI was a problem for Spotify long before Daniel Ek invested in AI weapons of war, causing a growing number of artists to remove their music from the platform in protest. Some artist pages on the streaming service have been infested with fake songs, many of them AI-generated. The people at Spotify apparently recognize this is a problem, and they’ve …

They got Howard Stern out here interviewing K-pop stars now. Last year, the Blackpink member Rosé had a huge global hit with the Bruno Mars collaboration “APT.” Today, she showed up on The Howard Stern Show, apparently to prove her bona fides. Rosé told Stern all about leaving Australia for K-pop training camp, she played the original demo of “APT,” …

Rauw Alejandro is constantly expanding his sounds. On Sept. 26, the Puerto Rican superstar revealed his sixth album, Cosa Nuestra: Capítulo 0, featuring traditional Caribbean sounds from his island and beyond. Not only that, but the new album also demonstrates how good he sounds in bachata, a genre he has never fully dived into before. The post LISTEN: ‘SILENCIO’ Proves …

Our Primavera Sound pals Magdalena Bay are back today with their first new music since last year’s alt-pop instant classic Imaginal Disk, just in time for a pair of sold-out shows this weekend at LA’s Hollywood Forever Cemetery.

Old friends Yung Lean and Bladee released their collaborative album Psykos last year, and then the two of them almost immediately dropped their own respective solo albums — Jonatan for Lean, Cold Visions for Bladee. Last weekend, Yung Lean and Bladee got back together to release the single “Inferno.” It’s really, really good. Now, they’ve got another one.

It’s been a long time since we’ve heard from Henry Laufer, the LA-based producer known as Shlohmo. Shlohmo came out of the same beat-music scene as guys like Flying Lotus. His 2011 debut album Bad Vibes was heavy on ominous murk, but it also had melodies. He went on to release the 2014 mixtape No More with the R&B star …