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Jane Remover Drops 15-Track Leroy Album With No Warning
The restless producer returns with "status update music," a chaotic collage of digicore, emo samples, and pop fragments logged across a single year.
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Gretsch Adds Two Baritone Electromatics, Rethinking the Corvette and Jet for a Heavier Register
The new CVT Baritone and Baritone Jet take the brand’s mid-priced range toward doom, sludge and metal, without losing the build details that earned these models their long-running reputation.
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Anxious’ Dante Melucci Introduces The Aether Mod
The first release from his new project moves into noticeably different territory from his work with Anxious.
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Be Your Own Pet Book 20th Anniversary Tour for Debut Album
The four-piece will take a rowdy victory lap across three US legs this summer and fall, marking two decades since their self-titled arrival.
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The Library of Congress Adds Beyoncé, Weezer, and a Frankie Knuckles Remix to the National Recording Registry
This year's selections map the unsteady pulse of American listening, from house music's underground origins to stadium-size pop.
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proun’s “Coloring Pages” Draws Its Lines from a Coming Out Story
The Austin band’s new single turns an instrumental demo into a deeply personal reflection on gender and memory, ahead of their debut album Maybe Luck.
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The Overlooked Precision of Ice-T’s O.G. Original Gangster Gets a 35-Year Reexamination
A new look at Ice-T’s 1991 album argues it deserves more than a footnote in hip-hop history, reframing a record that arrived with clarity and control just before the rapper’s fame skewed public perception.
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Darkthrone – Pre-Historic Metal
The Norwegian duo’s 21st album finds Fenriz returning to blastbeats and the band writing without individual credits, sharpening the blackened heavy metal they’ve built since Arctic Thunder.
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Motörhead’s ‘Kiss of Death’ Reissued for 20th Anniversary With Live Album, Half-Speed Remaster
BMG releases a half-speed remaster of the 2006 album alongside a full 2007 festival set, with new liner notes that honor the late Phil Campbell.
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Foo Fighters Perform First Tiny Desk Concert with Set Spanning New Cuts and Canon Staples
The band brought tracks from Your Favorite Toy alongside "My Hero" and "Everlong" to the NPR office for their debut in the series, paired with a characteristically Grohl story.