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J Mascis and Mike Watt helped define the ’90s alt-rock scene through their bands Dinosaur Jr. and Minutemen. Now, they’re covering each other’s songs for a new split 7″ arranged by Austin label Red Parakeet Records. Instead of tackling the Minutemen, though, Mascis dives into fIREHOSE’s 1991 deep cut “Formal Introduction,” while Watt lets loose

Jazz luminary and saxophonist Sonny Rollins has died, according to a public statement by his publicist, Terri Hinte. In the recent past, the icon had been struggling with respiratory health issues, which had kept him from public performance since 2012. He died at home in Woodstock, New York. He was 95. Rollins came up on the music of

Rob Base, one-half of the seminal Harlem duo Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock, died on Friday (May 22) after a “private battle with cancer.” He was 59.  “Rob’s music, energy, and legacy helped shape a generation and brought joy to millions around the world,” a statement on his Instagram page read. “Beyond the stage,

Earlier this month, Drake turned a long-teased album drop into a three album bonanza, releasing the new LPs Iceman, Habibti, and Maid of Honour at once on May 15. Now, Billboard reports that he has become the first artist to hold the No. 1, 2, and 3 spots on its Billboard 200 chart in the

Less than a month after dropping his debut solo single, Mike D is already back with a new song. The Beastie Boy recorded “What We Got” during the same sessions as “Switch Up,” and was joined in the studio by producer Carter Lang as well as Mike’s sons, Davis and Skyler Diamond. Listen below. The

From kissa bars to city pop, Western fascination with Japanese musical tradition is a well-worn trope at this point. But Portland ambient duo Visible Cloaks have set themselves apart from the trend-chasing masses through their genuinely meaningful contributions to Japanese genre kankyō ongaku, or “environmental music.” Last year, Spencer Doran, who makes up the group

DJ Koze’s first song of the year is here. His latest conjury of club mesmerism, the seven-minute “Spiralen,” is the front half of a AA-side single coming on June 12, via his Pampa label. That’ll be backed by another long song, promisingly titled “Wo’s Patric?!?” Find the “Spiralen” video below and the single art beneath

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith is readying a new album. The composer and synthesist will release Ruin: It’s Not Just Music on October 2 through Someone Special, a label she co-founded this year with James Daniel. Below, listen to a title track of sorts, “Ruin,” via a video starring a pole-dancing Pedro Esteveaqui. In a press release,

Philipp Jung, the German DJ and producer behind the electronic duo M.A.N.D.Y. and the influential Get Physical label, has died. The British DJ Damian Lazarus, a onetime Get Physical signee, shared the news on May 20, giving his age as 55. Jung’s personal Facebook page and his labels’ Instagrams have since posted their own tributes.

Charli XCX is back with a new song “SS26.” It arrives alongside a visual from “Von Dutch” director Torso, which places Charli in the glamorous chaos of a major fashion show. She rocks a variety of looks on and off the runway and even recovers from a catwalk stumble straight out of Sex and the

Loukeman is celebrating the recent end of his SD album trilogy with a tour spanning both sides of the Atlantic. Although the trek launches in the United Kingdom in June, the majority takes place this fall. The producer, real name Luke Fenton, will travel to Chicago, Brooklyn, Paris, and Berlin in his travels during sweater

Where else but Portland? Last night (May 20), Kevin Morby played the Oregon capitol’s Revolution Hall, where he was joined onstage by a certified local hero: Portlandia star and Sleater-Kinney founder Carrie Brownstein. Together, they performed the band’s 2005 classic “Modern Girl,” a track so essential within Sleater-Kinney’s enduring catalog Brownstein named her 2015 memoir

Slayyyter made her late-night TV debut last night, May 19, on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. The Wor$t Girl in America sang “Dance,” one of the singles from her new album, in a beer can bralette that looks a bit like the one Katy Perry wore during her Las Vegas residency a few years

The first teaser trailer for Live Nation’s Rolling Loud movie is here. If this is the first you’re hearing of a Rolling Loud movie, Owen Wilson stars in it as a “by-the-book dad trying way too hard to be a cool dad” (this is a direct quote from the promotional copy) who soon loses his

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