Avalon Emerson, the DJ-producer and indie-pop favorite, has a new EP out. Perpetual Emotion Machine comprises five tracks, including three she released over the past year. It ends with her cover of Oppenheimer Analysis’ “Don’t Be Seen With Me.” Before that, you’ll hear the recent singles “Treat Mode” and “On It Goes.” And kicking off the project are two new …

Toronto singer-songwriter Rachel Bobbitt has been capturing our attention for a few years now, but remarkably, she hasn’t put out an album yet. That will change in October with the release of Swimming Towards The Sand. The tracklist includes three recent Bobbitt tracks, “Furthest Limb,” “Sweetest Heart,” and “Deer On The Freeway.” It also has “Hands Hands Hands,” a dramatic …

Keigo Oyamada, the musician better known as Cornelius, is often regarded as one of Japan’s best rock music exports. But his prolific career was marred with a bit of controversy after a couple of interviews he did in the mid-1990s when he confessed to having bullied and assaulted students with intellectual disabilities when he was in school. Oyamada has issued …

It’s the end of an era. French producer Martin Solveig is retiring from DJing. This past March, he announced that he was playing his only show of 2025 at the Vieilles Charrues festival in Carhaix, France. Turns out, it was also his last. The 48-year-old has collaborated various times with Madonna and gave us the timeless hit from 2010 “Hello” …

Ozzy Osbourne died Tuesday, so the music world is honoring him all over again, just weeks after his all-star farewell concert brought the world of heavy music together in Birmingham. Given the scope of the Ozzman’s influence and celebrity, Tuesday night’s tributes arose from all kinds of artists, not just his fellow metalheads.

Nicole Glover is always thinking. The 36-year-old saxophonist, who grew up in Portland, OR, speaks the way she plays: with confidence and without hesitation. Every question I asked when we spoke by phone earlier this month generated a thoughtful, multi-paragraph response, and her approach to her music is as considered as her solos.

Ska heads have been waiting for this: A trombone emoji is imminent. The Unicode Consortium, a nonprofit foundation that upholds the Unicode Standard, announced the approved 2025 list of emoji. Other approved emoji from Unicode 17.0 include ballet dancers, a fight cloud, a landslide, an Orca, a Treasure Chest, a distorted face, a Hairy Creature (Bigfoot), and an Apple Core. …

C.Y.M. is the pairing of Vampire Weekend bassist Chris Baio (whose solo work as Baio you may well have jammed to in your day) and Michael Greene aka Fort Romeau. The duo brought us a debut EP back in 2019, and today they’ve returned with a new double A-side single. “Justify” is a funky midtempo party track that reminds me …

With the road to Williamsport heating up, one of New Jersey’s top Little League squads is suddenly facing a major setback and the reason is stirring plenty of debate. Marco… The post SOURCE SPORTS: Little League Player Suspended For Bat Flip Before NJ State Championship Game appeared first on .

Just the other week, Jenn Wasner guested on Haerts’ Laguna Road lead single “Woman On The Line.” A few months before that, she contributed to Bon Iver’s latest record SABLE, fABLE. Now the singer-songwriter and Wye Oak member is announcing her latest solo album as Flock Of Dimes, The Life You Save, out this fall.