Minami Deutsch: October 1, 2025 Tubby’s

Minami Deutsch: October 1, 2025 Tubby’s

It’s been nearly six years to the day since I last saw Minami Deutsch. That night, they were opening for Kikagaku Moyo at the wonderful—but now sadly closed—Burlington, VT venue, Arts Riot. The band’s name translates to “South Germany,” so the krautrock analogies were impossible to avoid. But what I found then, and what still…

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Orville Peck Talks New EP On Lipps Service

Orville Peck Talks New EP On Lipps Service

Masked South African-reared country artist Orville Peck is the guest on the newest installment of the Lipps Service podcast, speaking with host Scott Lipps about his new EP, Appaloosa, the evolution of his look and persona and the challenges of sobriety, fame and reading social media comments. Peck also gets into the business side of music, making…

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Kool G Rap, Brand Nubian’s Grand Puba Honored at 3rd Annual Hip Hop Grandmaster Awards Gala

Kool G Rap, Brand Nubian’s Grand Puba Honored at 3rd Annual Hip Hop Grandmaster Awards Gala

Jimmy “Super Rhymes” Spicer, whose 15-minute single “Adventure of Super Rhymes” is widely considered hip-hop’s first storytelling rap, died from cancer in 2019 in financial peril. As Russell Simmons’s flagship artist at Rush Management, Spicer helped lay the foundation for what would eventually become Def Jam Recordings. His music has been sampled by the Wu-Tang Clan, 2Pac, De…

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Fresh SPIN: Exploring AI’s New Frontier

Fresh SPIN: Exploring AI’s New Frontier

This new ongoing series is about the business of music with a SPIN twist. Not since the dawn of the Internet, Napster, and streaming services combined has there been such curiosity and horror over the music industry’s latest challenge: AI. Every day brings a new headline pondering whether we are on the precipice of a…

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Robyn Roars Back With ‘Dopamine’

Robyn Roars Back With ‘Dopamine’

Robyn has lifted a seven-year hiatus from new music with the fresh single “Dopamine,” which arrived with little warning today (Nov. 12) from new record label Young. The track was co-written with longtime collaborator Klas Åhlund and Taio Cruz, and produced by Robyn and Åhlund. “Everyone has a phone where they see their heart rate,…

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