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Becky drove up from San Diego without a ticket. She parked near the Teragram Ballroom in downtown Los Angeles at 1:03 p.m. on Tuesday, ran to Target, and was back in front of the venue by 2:34 p.m. — nearly six hours before doors, in 90-degree heat, for a show she hadn’t managed to buy her way into. She’d spent weeks watching resale prices climb on this sellout.  “This is disgusting,” the 37-year-old scoffed.  She got scammed. She came anyway, and spent the afternoon handing out water and Nerds Gummy Clusters to the strangers baking from the heat beside her.…

Listen/Buy: Amazon | Apple Music | Spotify | Tidal25.The Rapture: “Olio” [2003]Purists rejoice: This is the first and last time James Murphy’s name appears on this list. His LCD Soundsystem arrived at a time and place of rapid genetic drift, but it was another bunch of DFA signees who fused all those disparate strands of DNA. “Olio,” the deliciously nail-biting opener from the Rapture’s 2003 debut, Echoes, actually dated back to 1999, albeit in a different incarnation—lo-fi, Siouxsie-esque goth rock. Like a renegade Professor X, Murphy exposed their cells to acid house and even traces of Balearic beat, creating the…

Heavens to Betsy, the punk band of Sleater-Kinney’s Corin Tucker and Tracy Sawyer, have announced their first release since their split in 1994. After announcing a reunion tour back in June, the duo has unveiled Baby’s Gone, an archival album that Kill Rock Stars will release on October 16. Listen to “Ain’t Never Goin’ Back,” one of eight demos that comprise half of the new release, below. The 1993 and 1994 EPs These Monsters Are Real and Direction are bundled into the 16-track LP, too.Tucker and Sawyer recorded the demo in February 1992, assisted by Bratmobile’s Molly Neuman, who provides…

AI was detected in almost 40 per cent of music released worldwide last month, according to a new study. As Mixmag reports, the findings were published by the online music marketplace SubmitHub. The platform’s AI detector analysed more than a million releases from July, and discovered that 23.2 per cent were fully generated by artificial intelligence. Read More: In the age of AI Oasis, there’s no point being ordinary It also found that 15.3 per cent featured signs of AI-generated audio that had been “modified or processed” by humans. This means that 38.5 per cent of all music released last month…

The Lost Weekend singer says her upcoming U.K. show dates will be rescheduled while she recovers from appendicitis Phoebe Bridgers fans in the U.K. are unfortunately in for a bit of a lost weekend.  The Punisher singer, who celebrated her 32nd birthday on Aug. 17, announced on Instagram that several of her upcoming U.K. shows will have to be rescheduled after Bridgers was diagnosed with appendicitis. “I got appendicitis for my birthday,” she wrote — accompanied by a grim-faced selfie from a hospital bed. “Everything in the U.K. this week will have to move but I’ll make it up to…

In early 2024, while reporting a story on New York’s boisterous, controversial Young Republican Club, one of my sources told me they had a pretty direct line to Donald Trump himself.  At the time, Trump wasn’t president again — yet. But he was campaigning, and in order to get something in front of his eyes you had to first get the attention of someone else: his assistant and right-hand woman, Natalie Harp.  Harp, 35, is now at the center of a major media frenzy, as Democrats like Georgia Senator Jon Ossoff have seized upon her unusual relationship with her boss:…

Practice, Practice, Practice The Geese frontman became one of the youngest artists to headline the storied venue, playing songs off his celebrated debut Heavy Metal, as well as three unreleased compositions Geese frontman Cameron Winter is set to release his first live solo album, Live at Carnegie Hall, this fall. Out Oct. 9, the record captures Winter’s performance at the famed New York City venue last December. The sold-out show made Winter one of the youngest artists to headline Carnegie Hall, and capped off a massive year behind his debut solo album, Heavy Metal, as well as Geese’s Getting Killed. …

In 2024, Animal Collective’s Geologist (né Brian Weitz) decamped to visual artist Kyle Simon’s Farrington Observatory in Joshua Tree, where they, incredibly, harnessed the power of the moon to record music. That single composition is now arriving in album form called The Sirens, which is out October 16 on Outside Time. You can listening to a preview, titled “The Opening,” below.If you’re wondering how one uses a full moon and telescope to make music, let Simon himself explain: “The telescope is fitted with optical sensors and light-sensitive detectors called photodiodes,” he writes in the album’s liner notes. “As I rotate…

Cameron Winter is releasing his first live album, Live at Carnegie Hall, on October 9. The show took place at the concert hall last December, featuring stripped-back renditions of songs from Heavy Metal, as well as three previously unreleased tracks.Though Paul Thomas Anderson and Benny Safdie filmed the show, details of accompanying footage have not been revealed. The Geese frontman’s Carnegie Hall show was one stop on a short U.S. tour for Heavy Metal. The performance made him one of the youngest solo musicians to headline and perform in the New York concert hall’s Stern Auditorium. He released Heavy Metal…

Tyler, The Creator has shared the line-up for Camp Flog Gnaw 2026, featuring the likes of Turnstile, Lola Young and Steve Lacy. The annual US festival, founded by the California rapper and producer, will return to LA’s Dodger Stadium on November 14 and 15. Tyler himself is scheduled to headline this year’s event, following his bill-topping two-day takeover of London’s All Points East next week. He’ll be joined on the line-up by the aforementioned Turnstile, Young and Lacy. Other confirmed acts include Future, Vince Staples, 2hollis, Earl Sweatshirt & MIKE, The Alchemist, Isaiah Rashad, Syd, Thee Sacred Souls, Not For…