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Ella Langley Honors Dolly Parton with a Direct Cover of “Jolene” in Auburn
At a Friday night show, Ella Langley paused her set to play “Jolene” and explain what Dolly Parton’s refusal to shrink herself made possible for younger country artists.
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opera23 Returns with Teatro Armónico on Wic Recordings
Vincenzo Germano’s opera23 project ends a three-year absence with an album that places contemporary classical, electroacoustic experimentation, and sound art in a shared space.
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System Of A Down’s “Chop Suey!” Becomes the Band’s First Diamond Single
The RIAA certifies the band’s first 10x Platinum single, more than two decades after its release.
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Dean McPhee’s ‘Northern Earth’ Sets Instrumental Guitar in Open Terrain
The guitarist’s new album for Bass Ritual trades category for patience, building reverb-heavy figures into something closer to landscape than song.
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Danz CM Returns with Two New Singles, “Bontempi Pop 3” and “A Violent Power”
The synth-focused artist pairs an analog earworm with a breakbeat experiment built around an Italian toy organ.
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Bad Wolves Guitarist AJ Rebollo Quits Over Dolly Parton Cover
AJ Rebollo has left Bad Wolves after a Dolly Parton cover became a source of internal controversy. The band has acknowledged a chaotic stretch but has not detailed the disagreement.
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Angine de Poitrine Brings Quebec Math Rock to Ottawa Bluesfest
The Saguenay duo's Ottawa Bluesfest set showed how a viral KEXP session translated into a live audience already fluent in the band's alien logic.
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Native Instruments and A. G. Cook Release a Dedicated Supersaw Synth
The new plugin places the Roland JP-8000’s supersaw concept at its core, with presets from Cook and visual design by Simon Whybray.
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Iron Maiden Announce 2026 North American Tour With Megadeth and Anthrax
The 50th-anniversary Run for Your Lives Tour begins in Toronto on August 29 and runs through late September, with a setlist drawn from the band’s first nine albums.
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Ice Spice Is Not Pregnant, and the ‘Out My Face’ Bump Was a Prop
Speculation about the rapper’s pregnancy came from a scripted scene in her video with Lil Yachty. The bump was fake, and the rumors are false.