Washington, DC’s No/Más have an ultra-fast. ridiculously aggressive sound that exists somewhere on the line between hardcore and grindcore — both of the cores. Seeing them live is like having jackhammers held up to both sides of your skull. Their last LP, 2022’s Consume / Deny / Repent, was absolutely convulsive. Next year, they’ll follow…
We’ve launched our Year in Review lists, beginning with the year’s 100 best albums and continuing with a new genre-specific list each weekday. But now it’s time to let us know what music clicked the most with you in 2025 via our annual readers’ poll. We dug into the data and created a ballot based…
The London Roundhouse has issued an apology for hosting a Primal Scream concert that included a graphic entwining a Star of David with a swastika, The Guardian reports. During its performance of “Swastika Eyes,” the band displayed a short film that combines footage of the devastation of Gaza with pictures of political figures—including the U.S. and…
Some songs just make you feel instantly still, instantly calm. They make you realize that maybe you’ve been holding your breath for a while and you can finally let go. That was the immediate reaction I had with “Kabul,” the latest single from Chicago post-rock supergroup Pullman. Pullman is Ken “Bundy K.” Brown (Tortoise/Directions In…
The official trailer for The Moment, the new A24 movie starring and conceived by Charli XCX, is here. Following last month’s teaser, the trailer further explores the movie’s light satire of the Brat era, in which Charli clings to reason amid a whirlwind of bad advice and unscrupulous interlopers. Among them are a goofball live-show…
Lily Allen has been dominating the latter half of 2025 with her provocative new album West End Girl. She’ll be touring it next year, and it’s currently available on a butt plug-shaped USB. The promo cycle continues with an interview on The Tonight Show yesterday and a musical guest slot in SNL this weekend. The…
A Palestine benefit single from an ensemble including Brian Eno, Neneh Cherry, and Nadine Shah is out today. Credited to Together for Palestine—the British-based operation that put on a major benefit concert in September—“Lullaby” is a cover of the traditional Palestinian song “Yamma Mweel El Hawa,” which Peter Gabriel has adapted from an English translation….
In May, Smokey Robinson was sued for sexual assault by four former housekeepers. The 85-year-old pop icon denied the allegations and sued them for defamation, and then more accusations came out. Now, Robinson is accusing one of the former housekeepers of burglarizing his storage unit, which was allegedly raided on Nov. 22. Surveillance footage reportedly…
This year, Paul Simon made his long-awaited return to the stage, bringing his majestic A Quiet Celebration tour to more than 50 cities across North America. Now he’ll do it again, in Europe. The fabled singer-songwriter is set to play 21 shows on the continent this spring, in support of his latest release, 2023’s Seven…
Kevin Parker has been out there spreading the word about his first Tame Impala album in half a decade, the dance-oriented Deadbeat. His promotional journey — which included his first headlining US arena tour — carried him to the Edge’s SiriusXM radio show, where the U2 guitarist posed some tough either/or questions pitting some world-famous…
