“Swedish Nightmare” is an incredibly vivid phrase, one that carries heavy Girl With The Dragon Tattoo-type sadistic-freak vibes. But that doesn’t seem to be the Swedish nightmoare that Molly Nilsson sings about on the new song of that title. Nilsson will release her new album Amateur this fall, and we’ve already posted lead single “How Much Is The World.” Today, …

The singer-songwriter Carin León is a massive star in the world of regional Mexican music. In America, he’s played gigantic festivals, and he’s about to be on Bon Jovi’s new album. Now, he’s also got a new duet with Kacey Musgraves, a singer who comes from a different musical tradition but who has evidently discovered a kindred spirit.

The Beths have written some of the best power-pop in recent years. The band from Auckland, New Zealand — consisting of Liz Stokes (vocals/guitar), Jonathan Pierce (guitar), Ben Sinclair (bass) and Tristan Deck (drums) — has so far put out three albums of perfectly crafted, insanely catchy guitar music, headed up by Stokes’ conversational and introspective lyricism. It’s been a …

About a decade ago, West Coast rap producer DJ Mustard discovered the UK R&B singer Ella Mai and signed her to his 10 Summers imprint. Ella Mai worked with Mustard on her 2018 debut single “Boo’d Up,” an absolutely gorgeous song that became a slow-building international hit. Ella Mai and Mustard have continued to work together since then, and he …

DJ Khaled! He the best music! Khaled is a fundamentally silly figure, and his whole approach of rounding up extremely famous people to appear on songs together does not hit the way that it once did. These days, he seems to mostly exist to put out corporate-branded slop like his terrible Smurfs song. But Khaled apparently still has the ability …

Last night, pop-punkers Blink-182 kicked off their Missionary Impossible Tour with Alkaline Trio at Hard Rock Live in Hollywood, Florida. Not only did they perform a mix of old classics and new songs from their catalogue, according to setlist.fm, they played a bunch of rarities.

Earlier this year, the big-deal dance producer Fred again.. and the long-established London grime star Skepta got together, joining forces with streamer PlaqueBoyMax to release a single called “Victory Lap.” That song was a massive hit, reaching #4 on the UK singles chart, Skepta’s best-ever showing. A random-ass group of rappers — Denzel Curry, That Mexican OT, D Double E, …

On Valentine’s Day, Frog shared 1000 Variations On The Same Song, our Album Of The Week. Now the prolific New York duo is already announcing its followup, The Count.

Almost exactly one year ago, newly minted pop star Sabrina Carpenter released Short N’ Sweet, her sixth album but her real-deal breakout. Now, she’s already back with another one. Carpenter has already gone through a cover-art mini-controversy around her new record Man’s Best Friend, and “Manchild,” the record’s one advance single, debuted at #1. Today, the whole album is out, …

In the FromSoftware action RPG Elden Ring, you play as an anonymous, mute character belonging to a caste known as the Tarnished. You’re set loose in the Lands Between, a blighted world that has fallen into chaos. Your mission is to restore the Golden Order and become Elden Lord. In the beginning, you’re a weakling, with poor stats and worse …