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The artist’s return to the stage lands with all the confrontational energy that first made her essential.
After a deliberate rock pivot, the Oklahoma band Southall return with their first album in three years. One song tackles the frontman’s memory of losing the family property, a process he says redirected his own path.
Last-minute performances in Roswell and Lubbock leaned into extraterrestrial lore and offered a first listen to unreleased material.
Stereogum’s brief mention of Friko is a quiet signal, not a headline. The Chicago band’s profile continues to sharpen.
The Vermont songwriter performed the album’s title track and “Doors,” marking his second appearance on the show in just over a year.
In a new Guardian playlist feature, the actor and pianist recalls his first single, his father’s Erroll Garner record, and the classical piece his teacher tried to make him learn.
The track contrasts with the raucous “Rock Music” by settling into a late-’90s club pulse while lyrically staying just as confrontational.
Four decades after its release, New Order’s accidental masterpiece remains a case study in how chance, flawed technology, and a band’s indifference to convention can produce something that refuses to fade.
The Argentine rapper’s fourth album arrives with a Tonight Show debut, folding tango history and Dominican dembow into one taut record.
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