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MNEK's BULLDOZER!! Ends a Long Silence on His Own Terms
MNEK's second album arrives after years spent writing for other artists, and it argues that the flex is not the whole story.
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Don Henley's Campaign Money Runs Through Texas
The Eagles co-founder has become one of the largest individual Democratic donors in his home state, with roughly $300,000 to Texas races in the first half of 2026 alone and nearly $2 million at the federal level.
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James Hetfield Tells Metallica's Sphere Crowd the Band Is Not There to "Influence You"
At Metallica's Las Vegas residency, Hetfield framed the show as an escape from politics, a comment that lands inside this fall's Macklemore and Ed Sheeran dispute.
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The Disco Night That Shaped "Don't Start Now"
Dua Lipa's 2019 single was written on a brief to repeat an earlier hit, then rerouted by a night out in Jackson Hole. The production credits tell the rest.
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Don Black Isn't Counting on a Sixth Bond Theme: "It's Always Gone to Whoever's Popular"
The lyricist behind five James Bond themes says the job now goes to whichever pop star is biggest at the time, and at 88 he isn't expecting the call.
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Karl Bartos on How Technology Became a Constraint Inside Kraftwerk
In a republished conversation, the former Kraftwerk member describes leaving a band frozen by its own tools, and a later career spent using machines on different terms.
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Aurora Nishevci Steps Out Front on Rora And The Untamed's Debut Album
The Last Dinner Party's keytarist takes the lead on a debut made with composer Nathen Durasamy, a record built around the discomfort of wanting an audience.
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Edmondo Annoni Builds Interbeings From Residency Recordings
Edmondo Annoni's new album for Shimmering Moods is assembled from field recordings made inside a residency and at Brussels' Ferme du Parc Maximilien, with contact microphones and flugelhorn carrying equal weight.
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Bending Backwards' Debut Gives a Copenhagen Duo a New Voice
The Copenhagen trio's first album, still and quiet brother are you still and quiet, arrives on Pink Cotton Candy Records with eight songs about loving and missing people.
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Curses' Next Wave Acid Punx Reaches Its Third Volume on Eskimo
The third instalment of Curses' series for Eskimo Recordings returns to the years when acid house, EBM and industrial electronics briefly shared a floor, and asks what of that moment is still live.