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A One-Line Nod That Signals Attention
Stereogum’s brief mention of Friko is a quiet signal, not a headline. The Chicago band’s profile continues to sharpen.
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Noah Kahan Brings Two From ‘The Great Divide’ to SNL
The Vermont songwriter performed the album’s title track and “Doors,” marking his second appearance on the show in just over a year.
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Jeff Goldblum Tells Guardian He Skipped Beethoven for Jazz, Fell for Erroll Garner
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.
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Charli XCX Returns to the Club on New B-Side ‘I Keep Thinking About You Every Single Day And Night’
The track contrasts with the raucous “Rock Music” by settling into a late-’90s club pulse while lyrically staying just as confrontational.
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Blue Monday at 40: The Unplanned Dancefloor Monument That Outlasted Everything
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.
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Spellbound Festival 2026 Programme Includes Nkisi’s Overnight Sleeping Concert
The Turin festival will take place across four venues in June and September, featuring a new work developed with Nyege Nyege.
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World Cup Opening Ceremonies Split Across Three Host Nations, with Maná, Katy Perry, Tyla
FIFA turns the tournament’s first matches into a series of localized, stadium-scale shows, placing Mexican rock, South African pop, and mainstream pop at center stage.
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Steel Panther Return with First Single in Three Years, “The Mother’s Day Song”
The glam metal band signs to Frontiers Music SRL and leans back into their explicit, blues-based satire with a video nodding to a Beatles television milestone.
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InMusic Takes Over Native Instruments After Months of Uncertainty
The transaction ends a search for a buyer that began after NI filed for preliminary insolvency earlier this year.
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Weird Nightmare’s Alex Edkins Selects Bandcamp Listening Picks
The METZ guitarist maps the quieter, hook-filled corners of his record collection, offering a direct look at the songs and sounds that shaped his second solo album as Weird Nightmare.