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In the late 2000s, young boys loved to cringe at Justin Bieber. Maybe they were secretly jealous of his perfect voice, his hair flips, the way his oh-oh-ohs sent girls swooning. Maturing was realizing his music wasn’t inherently repellent; some haters converted with the aching downtempo R&B of 2014’s Journals, others took until the slanted acoustics of last year’s SWAG tapes.Nate Sib was a tween when Bieber released 2015’s Purpose, an EDM-laced burst of diaristic rambling; today, the 22-year-old songwriter cites it as key inspo. On his debut album, Reborn, Sib casts himself as a new troubled and thirsted-after pop…

At the risk of damaging my aura of critical distance and credibility, I confess to occasionally wondering whether Brandon Flowers might be the most important man alive. My affection for him goes beyond “irrational”; I have 20-year friendships predicated on the joy of making fun of him and the belief that he must be protected at all costs, like an endangered panda. I felt this fierce love surge last month, when Flowers released an “album trailer” video for his third solo album and first-ever country record, THRASHER. For mortals, a press release about the genre switch would suffice; for Flowers,…

Nobody tells a story like Kurt Wagner, but then again, who would try to? In “The New World Wave,” a stunner from Lambchop’s new album Punching the Clown, the 66-year-old songwriter spins a generation-spanning yarn that touches on surviving the Great Depression, the patient assemblage of chosen family, and the way unattended dreams can crumble into sellable assets. It’s heavy stuff, but consider how he pulls it off: For a line or two, he gets hung up on a sticky metaphor about hot dogs; he tugs at the heartstrings with a blink-and-you-miss-it pun around the word “apparent”; just after, he…

Basement have announced a UK and European leg of the ‘WIRED’ tour for early next year – check out all the details below. Back in May, the alt-rock mainstays returned with the release of ‘WIRED‘, their first new album in over eight years, and they’re set to take the tour in support of it to the EUK and Europe across a series of dates next year. They’re due to play shows in Amsterdam, Brussels, Munich, Berlin, Hamburg, Leipzig and Cologne before heading to the UK and Ireland for gigs in Birmingham, Bristol, Glasgow, Norwich, London, Manchester, Belfast and Dublin. Support…

Taylor Swift is feeling nostalgic for her country roots. In a career-spanning conversation with Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason Jr. for the institution’s Icon Sessions series, the pop superstar reflected on her early years in Nashville. “I love my country roots more and more the further along this path I get and I want to honor them more and more,” Swift said. “I feel more tied to them, more loyal to them … The people that shaped who I am as an artist and as a writer, that all happened in Nashville,” she added. The superstar named one of the…

A fan attending a recent Calvin Harris concert has gone viral after being hit in the face with a pizza while filming the gig on her phone. READ MORE: Kasabian on teaming up with Calvin Harris for ‘Release The Pressure’: “Banger incoming. Hotel vibes” The Scottish musician and DJ was playing the Boucher Road Playing Fields in Belfast on Saturday night (August 22), and in a now viral clip shared by Instagram user @bodyfitmums, a pizza can be seen flying through the air in slow motion before hitting her as she recorded the gig. “Nothing like getting pizza pied at Calvin,”…

LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy has contributed to a charity cover of The Waterboys‘ ‘The Whole Of The Moon’, which was recorded by DFA Records in memory of JD Twitch. DJ Twitch, real name Keith McIvor, was one half of the legendary Scottish DJ duo Optimo, who announced in July 2025 that he had been diagnosed with an “untreatable” brain tumour. His wife went on to launch a crowdfunder to help with his “24-hour nursing care”, which raised over £90,000 in just two days, with contributions from Franz Ferdinand’s Alex Kapranos, Mogwai’s Stuart Braithwaite and more. In September that year, Optimo…

Olivia Rodrigo has officially released her politically-charged new song ‘Serena Joy’ on streaming platforms – listen below. The song was first made available on a limited run of just 500 CDs, all sold exclusively at Analog Record Shop in Tustin, California on Friday (August 21), a store just miles from Rodrigo’s upcoming Daisy Chain Fields festival. All 500 copies sold out that day. Now, Rodrigo has confirmed that the song has been added to major streaming platforms, writing on Instagram earlier today (August 24): “Surprise!!! Serena Joy out on streaming platforms now. A portion of all net proceeds go to Daisy Chain Fields Fund. I love this song so much!!!!” The track…

As their band name suggests, Jason Bonham’s Led Zeppelin Evening focuses their live show exclusively on the Led Zeppelin catalog. But they made a one-time-only exception Saturday when Van Halen bassist Michael Anthony joined them near the end of their set at the Pacific Amphitheater in Costa Mesa, California for “Runnin’ With the Devil.” “We have never done anything like this in the 16 years of doing this show,” Jason Bonham told the crowd, before Michael Anthony took over the mic. “Jason wanted to do something old,” he said. “Mr. Jimmy said yeah, let’s do it. So let’s do it.”…

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