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Juan Atkins, the lifelong producer and DJ who co-founded Detroit techno music, has died; Green Smith Artists, Atkins’ management company, confirmed his death. Atkins was slated to perform at Yu Yu Club in Mexico City last night (October 31). He was 64. As a member of the Belleville Three, Cybotron, and Borderland, Atkins’ impact on

Lily Allen, shameless pop ironist and self-satirist, has never shied from public vitriol—a quality that has come in handy as fans have reacted to her live shows behind West End Girl. Some lamented the format—essentially a full-length rendition of the LP, nothing more; venues were downsized as excitement (and prurient interest in the album’s salacious

Florence and the Machine’s cathartic live shows have been given the album treatment before—most recently 2025’s Symphony of Lungs – BBC Proms at the Royal Albert Hall—but the band has just announced their first ever full tour LP with Everybody Scream Tour Live, out next week. All 22 songs were recorded during this year’s run

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Bradford Cox’s return to the stage was already cause for celebration. When Atlas Sound, his long-dormant solo project, was added to the bill of Philadelphia’s Making Time ∞ festival last month, the Deerhunter frontman hadn’t performed live since 2019, save an impromptu noise set at an Athens, GA vintage market in 2023. What few could

My Chemical Romance have released a new animated short film with a pretty formidable voice cast, including Phoebe Bridgers, Billie Eilish, Hideo Kojima, and actor John C. McGinley. “Prelude to the End,” a collaboration with visual artist Lauren Tsai, arrives just after the band dropped a 20th-anniversary reissue of their album The Black Parade last

Before she embarked on her no-phones Lost Tour, Phoebe Bridgers held a series of no-phones gigs at intimate venues across the country. She closed things out at Madison Square Garden (a show our own Hattie Lindert described as a showcase of “bigger belts, more elastic vocal runs, and thornier topics” in “her oeuvre of quiet

If there’s anyone who knows about the pop star life, it’s Robyn. On BBC Live Lounge, the Swedish pop singer proved it with a mashup of the Teddybears’ Iggy Pop-assisted “Punkrocker” and Tinashe’s “Popstar.” Watch that all go down below. Robyn opened the performance with the first verse of “Punkrocker,” giving its iconic hook a

East Coast concert lovers with a penchant for geodesic domes, rejoice: the Las Vegas Sphere is getting a sister venue in Maryland. WTOP reports that the Prince George’s County Council (PGCC) has approved up to $215 million in funding to build a Sphere on the Potomac River, just south of Washington, D.C. The shape of

Veteran Illinois shoegaze band Hum have announced a 2027 tour, their first proper run since 2015. The U.S. treck kicks off in Atlanta in March, stopping in Austin, Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Seattle, and more before concluding in San Francisco in July. All dates will feature support from Kansas City’s the Life and Times, while

Brakence dropped his new album Marrow just last Friday, and now the producer and singer-songwriter is gearing up to take it on the road across North America. The Marrow Tour kicks off March 4 in San Diego then loops around the continent, hitting major U.S. cities along the way before wrapping up back in Los

After a short teaser clip lit up the internet with news of their return, Dead Man’s Bones—the duo of Ryan Gosling and Zach Shields—are officially back with their first new music in 17 years. “Lost in the Night” was produced with longtime collaborator Tim Anderson, and it gets a black-and-white music video starring Hamnet’s Noah

Two months after they drop the 20th anniversary edition of At War With the Mystics, The Flaming Lips will return with their first new album in seven years (and 17th in total). The Teardrop Throbs, the band’s debut on Third Man Records, arrives January 22. The release also marks the psych-rockers first LP in 35

Jay-Z closed out his Jay-Z 30 tour this weekend at Los Angeles’ SoFi Stadium, bringing an end to a headlining run that broke Yankee Stadium’s ticket sales record and featured guest appearances from Nas, The-Dream, Rihanna, and Beyoncé. The tour celebrated the 30th anniversary of Jay’s debut album Reasonable Doubt, and kicked off earlier this

The licensing group that owns the rights to Elvis Presley’s music and license has filed a $41 million lawsuit against AI company Anthropic. The Tennessee-based Authentic Brands Group alleges that Anthropic infringed on their copyright by training its AI model Claude on 274 of Presley’s songs without permission, including “Can’t Help Falling in Love,” “Don’t

On the heels of releasing their new album I Don’t Wanna Say Goodbye, Haywire have lined up a jam-packed live slate for next year. Between January 3 and April 30, the Boston hardcore outfit will play a whopping 80 shows throughout Europe, the UK, and North America. This all follows a late 2026 Australian run

Midwest Princess Chappell Roan anointed a dynasty of fellow royals to close out her two-night benefit concert in Los Angeles last night. Held at Shrine Auditorium, the Super Graphic Spectacular celebrated the first anniversary of Roan’s Midwest Princess Project, which supports young people from LGBTQ+ communities. After joining Caroline Polachek to do “Look at Me

“Do you know what’s not a high-flying bird? A chicken.” Noel Gallagher is the latest guest on Amelia Dimoldenberg’s Chicken Shop Date. In the new episode, the elder Gallagher brother opines on vegetarians (“Fuck those guys”), Macca (“He’s one of those rare people that when you meet him, you walk away from it feeling good