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Helen, the shoegaze trio of Grouper’s Liz Harris, bassist Scott Simmons, and drummer Jed Bindeman, have announced their first album in over a decade. Linda’s Head arrives October 2 via Kranky—11 years after the band’s lone studio LP, 2015’s The Original Faces. Below, hear two songs from the album—the title track and “Dead Shark II”—and check out the cover art.The last grouper album, Shade, came out in 2021. This September, Harris will play a mini-tour of six shows across the U.S. and Canada, with dates in Chicago, Toronto, Montreal, New York City, Washington, D.C., and Kingston, New York.Revisit the review…
John Douglas, the guitarist and vocalist in the Scottish indie rock outfit Trashcan Sinatras, has died, the band announced on social media. He was 63. “We are devastated to inform all of you that we have lost our dear friend and brother John after a brief illness,” Francis Reader, Paul Livingston, Stephen Douglas, and Davy Hughes said in a statement. “He died peacefully in the early hours of Monday the 3rd August 2026, surrounded by loved ones, his beautiful voice and songs filling the room.” The news comes four days after the release of the group’s new album Ever the…
AI music generator Suno has lost a copyright infringement lawsuit to German licensing agency GEMA. Filed in January 2025, the filing saw GEMA argue that Suno was using songs in its repertoire – including Boney M’s ‘Daddy Cool’, Lou Bega’s ‘Mambo No. 5’, and Alphaville’s ‘Forever Young’ – to train its AI models, without obtaining any licenses or paying the songwriters. The decision was handed down on Friday (July 31) by the Munich Regional Court, and ruled that the AI platform unlawfully obtained, processed and reproduced music that was represented by GEMA. The court found that Suno’s use of the…
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. It’s been more than a year since Netflix dropped one of the company’s biggest original movies, KPop Demon Hunters. Officially released on June 20, 2025, the animated film became an instant phenomenon, racking up more than 628 million streams, inspiring countless pieces of merchandise, spawning chart-topping songs, and even making its way back to theaters. Now, fans can celebrate the blockbuster with a special one-year anniversary vinyl, available to shop now at Amazon and Barnes & Noble. Retailing…
At Glen Hansard‘s funeral in Dublin, Ireland Tuesday (Aug. 4), U2‘s Bono played a musical voicemail from Patti Smith before reciting the lyrics of “Beautiful Day,” Eddie Vedder performed Hansard’s “The Song of Good Hope,” and both singers joined a group performance of Bob Dylan’s “Forever Young.” Also among the mourners were Hozier, Imelda May, the Edge, the E Street Band’s Jake Clemons, and many other musicians. Hansard died July 29 at the age of 56 after a motorcycle crash. Bono’s tribute celebrated Hansard’s gift for friendship. “How do you do that?” he asked. “People on the green outside, best…
If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Spider-Man: Brand New Day had a massive debut atop the box office, making almost $1 billion globally in its opening weekend. Though the film is still in theaters, the latest Spider-Man movie has also hit the top of Amazon’s bestselling movies and TV shows chart, even though an actual consumer release date for Brand New Day has yet to be announced. COLLECTOR’S EDITION Spider-Man: Brand New Day – 4K UHD Blu-Ray Steelbook Amazon already has a listing up…
Frank Zappa’s estate will mark the 60th anniversary of the Mothers of Invention’s debut album Freak Out! with a deluxe reissue featuring the LP’s long-lost mono mix, unreleased 1966 performances, and other outtakes from the vault. Freak Out!: 60th Anniversary Edition, out Sept. 25 via Zappa Records/UMe, features the band’s pioneering 1966 double-LP — an album that Paul McCartney credited with inspiring the Beatles own “concept album” Sgt. Pepper’s — in three formats: A newly remastered stereo mix, a pre-master mix culled from unearthed 1966 tapes, and a full-album mono mix which remained unavailable for decades, as Zappa “vaultmeister” Joe Travers…
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Empire Of The Sun’s Luke Steele has admitted that he uses AI to create music, saying the tech can “empower artists that know how to use it”. During an interview with iHeartRadio Canada at last weekend’s Osheaga festival in Montreal, the frontman of the Australian synth-pop duo was asked whether he used artificial intelligence in his work. Read More: Soundtrack Of My Life: Empire Of The Sun’s Luke Steele “Of course,” he replied, before the interviewer noted many artists’ aversion to AI, such as Mac DeMarco, SZA, Lorde and Jack Antonoff – the latter of whom called AI music creators “godless…
James Talarico is asking me if my hand is OK, and I’m trying to laugh it off. We’re stopped at the site of a collapsed water well in the craggy outskirts of Alpine, Texas. Behind us, the red and ochre cliffs of Big Bend National Park glow in the late afternoon sun. Roughly an hour earlier I had — accidentally, I must stress — whacked a cactus while walking out of Talarico’s campaign rally in Marfa. This unfortunate encounter with some variant of a prickly pear resulted in a scramble to dig a pair of tweezers out of my carry-on…
