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Charli XCX Releases New Song “Wall of Sound”
Charli XCX has shared a new song from Wuthering Heights, her soundtrack and accompaniment to the Emerald Fennel movie of the same name. Listen to it below ahead of the film and album’s dual release on February 13. Charli’s recent singles “Chains of Love” and the John Cale-assisted “House” will appear on the album which she has described, on Substack,…
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John Forté, Rapper and Fugees Producer, Dies at 50
John Forté, the rapper and producer who emerged as a key contributor to the mid 1990s New York hip-hop scene and close collaborator of Fugees, was found dead at his home in Chilmark, Massachusetts, on Monday (January 12), The Associated Press reports. There was no sign of foul play or a “readily apparent cause of death,” Sean Slavin, the Chilmark…
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Grateful Dead’s Bob Weir Dead at 78
Grateful Dead founding member Bob Weir has died. Weir played rhythm guitar and sang lead vocals for the entirety of the Grateful Dead’s 30-year tenure. He also founded and played in several bands during and after his time with the Dead, including Kingfish, the Bob Weir Band, Bobby and the Midnites, Scaring the Children, RatDog, and Furthur. After the Grateful…
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David Byrne Covers Olivia Rodrigo’s “Drivers License”
Olivia Rodrigo has marked the fifth anniversary of her post-Disney debut “Drivers License” by enlisting David Byrne to record a cover. Check it out below. A 7″ vinyl single, out April 3, will pair the cover with Rodrigo and Byrne’s version of Talking Heads’ “Burning Down the House,” recorded at the 2025 Governors Ball. This is the first in a series of…
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The 55 Most Anticipated Albums of 2026
Danny L Harle: Cerulean February 13 On his first album in five years, Danny L Harle continues to plunder pure aural ecstasies of dancefloors past and drag them kicking and screaming into the 2020s. In a collider of trance, progressive techno, and various rave tendrils, the British producer draws guests including Caroline Polachek, PinkPantheress, Oklou, Dua Lipa, and Clairo into…
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Peter Gabriel Lines Up a New Year of Lunar Releases With O/I
I’m delighted to say that tonight, at the full moon, we will be beginning another year of full moon releases under the name o\i. The songs are a mix of thoughts and feelings. I have been thinking about the future and how we might respond to it. We are sliding into a period of transition like no other, most likely triggered…
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Brigitte Bardot Dies at 91
Brigitte Bardot, the French icon who glamorously embodied the postwar pop zeitgeist, has died. Her animal rights foundation announced the news in a statement sent to Agence France-Presse. No cause or date of death were given. Bardot was 91 years old. Bardot was born into a wealthy Parisian family in 1934 and trained as a ballerina before landing the modeling…
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The Cure’s Perry Bamonte Dies at 65
Perry Bamonte, the Cure’s longtime guitarist and keyboardist, has died following an undisclosed illness. He was 65. In a statement posted to their website, the band wrote that Bamonte, who went by the nickname “Teddy,” was “quiet, intense, intuitive, constant and hugely creative,” as well as “a vital part of the Cure story.” Perry Bamonte was born in September 1960…
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Bob Vylan Won’t Face Charges for “Death to the IDF” Chant
U.K. police have ended their criminal investigation into Bob Vylan over comments the punk duo made on stage about the Israeli military. “We have concluded, after reviewing all the evidence, that it does not meet the criminal threshold outlined by the [Crown Prosecution Service] for any person to be prosecuted,” the Avon and Somerset Police said in a statement. “No…
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EsDeeKid Releases Remix Featuring a Rapping Timothée Chalamet
Timothée Chalamet took a break from talking table tennis to hop on a “4 Raws” remix with mysterious U.K. rapper EsDeeKid. The move is an extended part of a dull internet conspiracy that maintained Chalamet—who used to rap under the alias Lil Timmy Tim and was once knighted by Lil B—was actually EsDeeKid. You can listen to the Oscar nominee…
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