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Just over a month ago, Kendrick Lamar kicked off a whole series of rap storylines when he went after both Drake and J. Cole in his surprise guest verse on Future and Metro Boomin’s track “Like That.” The track ignited tensions that have been simmering for more than a decade, and it kicked off a whole lot of activity. “Like That” debuted at #1, J. Cole responded and then retracted his response, and Drake went after Kendrick on his own songs “Push Ups” and “Taylor Made Freestyle,” the latter of wh…
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Are you familiar with the internet phenomenon known as lostwave? Someone will upload a song, or a clip of a song, that cannot be identified. Usually, it’s a murky and mysterious piece of music that sounds vaguely familiar — something that tickles people’s memories and seems like it could’ve been a radio nugget from a bygone era. That practice led to the rediscovery of the British indie band Pachinko, whose 2000 demo EP became a subject of lostwave fascination when a 4Chan user found it in a thri…
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Last night, before headlining this weekend’s second edition of the Las Vegas festival Sick New World, Slipknot played a warmup gig at Pappy & Harriet’s in Pioneertown, CA. In doing so, they debuted their new full-time drummer. He was of course wearing a mask, but any Maggot will tell you it’s Eloy Casagrande, who left the long-running Brazilian band Sepultura last month. Casagrande announced his departure from Sepultura in an Instagram post, writing that “decisions needed to be made thinking abo…
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Today, Richmond underground metal lifers Inter Arma release New Heaven, their first album of new material in five years. All the advance singles — the title track, “Concrete Cliffs,” “Desolation’s Harp” — were titanic, and I kept meaning to listen to the advance stream of the full album, but I guess I never got around to it. Maybe that’s why I was so surprised when I played the record today and the last track came in.
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In the past few weeks, 91-year-old legend Willie Nelson appeared on new records from Beyoncé and Orville Peck. This summer, he’ll embark on another edition of his touring Outlaw Music Festival, where mythic figures like Bob Dylan and Robert Plant will open for him. Next month, Nelson will release The Border, which is being billed as his 75th album of new material. We’ve already posted the grave, powerful title track, and now Nelson has shared a very different single.
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The ultra-heavy Northeast hardcore band Missing Link got started during the pandemic, and they’ve got a lineup that includes members of bands like Pain Of Truth, Out For Justice, and Internal Bleeding. After a few early releases, they’ve announced plans to release their full-length debut Watch Me Bleed this summer. Expect it to go extremely hard.
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Louis Cole is an LA-based producer and multi-instrumentalist whose music freely travels among genres but usually ends up somewhere on the Hot Chip side of things. That’s a good side to be on! Cole released the compilation Some Unused Songs last year, and now he’s getting ready to follow up his last studio LP, 2022’s Quality Over Opinion, with a new one called nothing.
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Two years ago, the soft and incisive Brooklyn indie-folk band Florist released a really good self-titled album. Now, they’re part of the soundtrack for I Saw The TV Glow, the new indie horror film from We’re All Going To The World’s Fair director Jane Schoenbrun. Fred Durst and Snail Mail’s Lindsey Jordan both act in the movie, and it’s got a score from Alex G, as well as a soundtrack album full of indie rock heavyweights. We’ve already posted Yeule’s cover of the Broken Social Scene classic “An…
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Three years ago, New York indie rockers Lightning Bug dropped their album A Color Of The Sky on Fat Possum. Next week, they’ll follow that LP with the entirely self-released new one No Paradise. We’ve posted the early singles “December Song” and “Opus,” and now they’ve released another one.
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Softcult, the duo of Toronto twin siblings Mercedes and Phoenix Arn-Horn, were a Stereogum Band To Watch last year, and they’ll release their new EP Heaven next month. By the time the record comes out, we’ll probably already know all the songs, since Softcult like to drop one track at a time. We’ve already posted the title track, “Haunt You Still,” “Shortest Fuse,” and “Spiralling Out.” Today, they’ve also shared “One Of The Pack,” the fifth advance single from this six-song EP.
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Jeremy Earl, leader of the psychedelic indie-folk band Woods, has been running his Woodsist label for a long time. Every year, he brings a bunch of likeminded bands together for the Woodsist Festival, a bucolic affair that always looks extremely pleasant. This year, the Woodsist Fest will return to New York’s Hudson Valley, and the lineup is looking strong.
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