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Michael Kiwanuka Serves Up New Album Fudge
The self-produced LP was written “almost concurrently” with 2024’s Small Changes
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Sebadoh Reissuing Harmacy for 30th Anniversary
Listen to one of five previously unreleased additions, an alternate version of “Beauty of the Ride”
Macklemore Announces Free Palestine Tour
“As you all know, my schedule freed up a bit”
Boys Noize Announces First Album in Five Years and World Tour
Listen to “1+1+1” from 7LLVSION, out November 6
serpentwithfeet Announces Sentinel EP and Signing to New Label
The latest from the New York artist, now on One Little Independent Records, is out December 4
Bad Brains Unearth Mythical First Demo Tape
Are You Ready: The First Studio Recording documents the D.C. punk legends’ 1979 session at Arlington, Virginia’s Inner Ear Studios
Queens of the Stone Age Ask “Where the Goth Girls At?” in New Song
Drake will probably enjoy this one
They Are Gutting a Body of Water Prep Huge Mixtape and Drop Three Songs
Featuring Spirit of the Beehive, Hotline TNT, RXK Nephew, Greg Mendez, and 25 other artists
Angine de Poitrine Awarded 2026 Polaris Prize
The Quebecois duo became the first act to scoop both prizes for the best Canadian album and song of the year
Taylor Swift Announces The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore
The updated version to her 2025 album includes four new songs
Kelly Clarkson Confirms Singing ‘Golden’ on Final Talk Show Was Hella Hard: ‘It Took Me Forever to Place it to Where I Didn’t Sound Like a Dying Cat!’
The singer also reminisced about her sweet interaction with late country icon Dolly Parton on Monday night's (Sept. 21) Late Night With Seth Meyers.
Khosla Ventures-backed AI music company GRAI acquires social music platform Hangout
Hangout launched in November 2024 with a catalog of over 100 million tracks, licensed from Sony Music Entertainment, Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, and Merlin. Source
Drowned in Sound and Music Venue Trust reveal new music magazine
It’s not often we get to write about the launch of a new print magazine focused on music: the recent past has seen plenty of them shut down or go online-only (then shut down or dwindle). The post is from Music Ally.
Snapchat has a new GenAI-powered ‘Chat to Song’ feature
Earlier this year, we wrote about the ‘text-to-song’ craze on TikTok, where people were feeding their message-threads into Suno to generate songs – some of which went viral. The post is from Music Ally.
Italy’s Sanremo Music Festival bars AI if it replaces human creativity
The Sanremo Music Festival is a veritable institution in Italy: an annual music contest and TV broadcast that’s often had a secondary purpose of choosing Italy’s entry for the next Eurovision Song Contest. The post is from Music Ally.
Suno hits back at ‘fundamentally flawed’ UMG and Sony Music claims
We reported yesterday on Universal Music Group and Sony Music’s new legal complaint against Suno, with a filing that attacked its latest v6 models as “the fruit of the same poisoned tree”. The post is from Music Ally.
Bret Michaels Preps Return to Road After Postponing Solo Tour Due to Emergency Surgery: ‘You Know I’m Gonna Give It All I’ve Got’
The 63-year-old singer had previously canceled all his 2026 dates following surgery to remove a kidney stone and implant a ureteral stent.
Blue Bendy Launch New Album With “Dragonslayer” Video
One Day This Will All Be Lore’s lead single presents “nationalistic mythology wrapped in a tragicomic romantic pop song”
Vinyl counterfeiter who made $3.6M from fake Taylor Swift and Kendrick Lamar records jailed for 3.5 years in the UK
Rehan Ahmed generated £2.7M (USD $3.6M) from counterfeit vinyl pressed at a west London plant, in a case referred to police by the BPI. Source
Ozzfest Confirms It Will Return to U.S. in 2027
The event will come to North America for the first time in nearly a decade after previously announcing a show in Birmingham, U.K.