Riffs! I like riffs. I like it when songs have lots of riffs. I like when one riff stops and another one suddenly starts. The Oxnard, California heavy hardcore band Torena has riffs for days. They’ve got so many riffs that their new single burns through a few of them before anyone starts singing. Torena… The post Torena – “Extinction” …

Recently Sky Ferreira has been posting some comments on Instagram implying that Charli XCX’s Wuthering Heights album may have included some old Ferreira demos. The only song on Wuthering Heights that credits Ferreira is “Eyes Of The World,” on which she’s cited as a featured artist and co-writer, but her comments suggested that other songs on the album were originally …

It’s been a few months since Sabrina Carpenter dropped her last full-length Man’s Best Friend, but it’s not too late for the house tour. Today she released the music video for album highlight “House Tour” in which she stars alongside Margaret Qualley, whose husband Jack Antonoff co-produced and co-wrote the song, and Outer Banks star Madelyn Cline. Carpenter and Qualley …

It’s somehow been six years since the Strokes released their “new” album, the Grammy-winning The New Abnormal, and the band has been announced for a zillion festivals this year, including an appearance at Coachella this Saturday. So perhaps it was obvious a new LP was on the way. Today they’ve confirmed it. The post The Strokes Announce New Album <em>Reality …

Back in February, Boston metallic hardcore pioneers Converge released Love Is Not Enough, their first proper album in about nine years. It fucking rules. Last week, Converge announced plans to follow Love Is Not Enough almost immediately with Hum Of Hurt, their second new album of 2026. Judging by the title track, as well as past experience with this band, …

Released by Columbia Records, Nas’ third album, I Am, debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 chart. The album sold 470,000 copies in its first week and was certified double… The post Today in Hip Hop History: Nas Released His Third LP ‘I Am’ 27 Years Ago appeared first on .

On this day in Hip Hop history, Queens legend Nas released the video for his hit single, “Hate Me Now.” Although the song may be a fan favorite, the video… The post Today In Hip Hop History: Nas Released The Controversial Visuals For ‘Hate Me Now’ 27 Years Ago appeared first on .

Guns N’ Roses are on tour. Axl Rose, Slash, Duff McKagan, and company are currently playing shows across Latin America, including a stop at the Monsters Of Rock Brazil festival in São Paulo on Saturday. Their setlist included “Bad Apples,” a deep cut from their 1991 album Use Your Illusion I. Per Setlist.fm, they’ve only played it twice before, both …

A little less than a year ago, Stevie Nicks gave a charmingly loopy speech at the Pollstar Awards, and she told the crowd that she’d begun work on her first album since 2011’s In Your Dreams: “I have seven songs, and they are autobiographical real stories where I’m not pulling any punches for probably the first time in my life… …

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