We’re in the middle of the dog days. As brutal heatwaves and endless thunderstorms alternate their grip on our throats, we keep pressing play on track after track, hoping what comes from the speakers justifies the sweat pouring off our bodies. Debate rages on social media about the “Song Of The Summer”: Who’s made it? Who needs to make it? …

Earlier this year Billy Joel canceled all of his upcoming concerts after being diagnosed with a brain condition called normal pressure hydrocephalus. That’s certainly some worrying news, but we’ve had a few nuggets of hope in the meantime: Last month Howard Stern said on his SiriusXM show that Joel was doing pretty well when they had dinner together recently, and …

Last month Titanic, the experimental duo of Mabe Fratti and Héctor Tosta (aka I. la Católica), announced their new album Hagen and shared its lead single “Gotera,” which ruled. They’ve followed it up today with another advance track, “La dueña.” The song is a swooning traditional ballad steeped in melodrama, but with chaos breaking out around the edges. It’s a …

David Balfe makes tense music for an intense world. Under the name For Those I Love, the Dublin producer, visual artist and songwriter uses suspenseful, sprawling electronic compositions as the backdrop for his unyielding spoken word. He’s coming out with his sophomore album Carving The Stone on 8/8 via September Recordings, and today, he’s released a new single called “Mirror” …

“Lose Control” is not going away. As Billboard reports, Teddy Swims’ signature hit has become the first song in history to hang around on the Hot 100 for 100 weeks. The country soul track first appeared on the chart in August 2023, and it reached #1 for a week in March 2024. Given that it’s still all the way up …

Last week, in the most viral incident in recent memory, the kiss cam at a Coldplay concert revealed Andy Byron, the CEO of data infrastructure company Astronomer, was cheating on his wife with the firm’s HR chief Kristin Cabot, who is also married. This led to lots of jokes of varied quality and an internal investigation that resulted in Byron’s …

Malcolm-Jamal Warner, the actor and musician who rose to fame as Theo Huxtable on The Cosby Show in the 1980s, is dead. Warner died by drowning while on a family vacation to Costa Rica, sources confirm to People and TMZ. He was 54.

It’s been less than a year since Jamie xx released In Waves, the long-awaited follow-up to his 2015 solo debut album In Colour. That means we’re in the long tail of the album rollout when extra songs from the era begin to appear. In the case of Jamie’s new single “Dream Night,” it’s not a leftover from the album sessions …

Throughout 2025 Lydia Loveless has been releasing a stream of songs on Bandcamp, including a cover of Irving Berlin’s “What’ll I Do,” as well as some original singles called “Accolades” and “Oklahoma.” The Ohio-based singer-songwriter has been dubbing this ongoing project the Secret Sessions, presumably in reference to Columbus’ Secret Studio, where she does a lot of recording. Today Loveless …

Oscar Henson’s early material as Facta orbited the post-dubstep diaspora of the 2010s, landing on venerated UK labels including Livity Sound and Idle Hands. An East London native, Henson lived in Bristol during a formative era for the city’s electronic underground. He picked the moniker Facta at random from a history textbook — an obscure reference to Italian politician Luigi …