Teresa Marraco started taking piano lessons when she was five years old. The artist who now records as Antinoë couldn’t reach the pedals yet, but she quickly discovered that she loved to play. Her teacher, Clara, taught her not just how to read sheet music but how to be creative, to envision and ultimately realize…
Over the summer, the Wiggles were sued by former CEO, and the blue Wiggle was accused of financial misconduct. Now, the children’s music group are embroiled in some more controversy following a since-deleted video that promoted a new song called “Ecstasy.” Blue Wiggle Anthony Field and his nephew Dominic Field, aka the Wiggles character the…
Grimes is a fan of Bryan Johnson, the multimillionaire and immortality influencer who spends his time trying to fight death. He is perhaps best known for undergoing plasma transfusions with donations from his teenage son a few years ago. Earlier this year Grimes tweeted that she is “so into Bryan Johnson,” explaining she “got into…
In their Bandcamp bio, Atlanta indie band Arbor Labor Union self-describe as “transcendental twang.” They came to my attention a while back through Josh Terry’s essential No Expectations newsletter, and this Thanksgiving season I am grateful for the find. ALU popped up in the Bandcamp notifications this morning with a new release titled Out To…
It’s been four years since Unidad Ideológica exploded out of Colombia with a self-titled album full of ugly, nasty, electrifying d-beat hardcore. Next week, they’ll return with Choque Asimétrico, the last 2025 release from La Vida Es Un Mus Discos, purveyors of the scuzziest punk rock from around the globe. The band has shared two…
We knew Jack White would put on a fantastic show when he was announced as the halftime entertainment for his hometown Detroit Lions’ annual Thanksgiving Day football game. We did not realize the performance would feature fellow Detroit legend Eminem, who emerged to rap “Till I Collapse” over “Hello Operator” about halfway through White’s set…
A Jessie J song once guaranteed vocal pyrotechnics on the scale of the Disneyland fireworks extravaganza. That’s mostly still true on Don’t Tease Me With a Good Time, but the British singer’s first album in eight years—which balances R&B jams with misty 1980s pop—does more with less. On lead single “No Secrets,” Jessie J turns…
Kneecap have been on the receiving end of legal action this year, and now they’re going on the offensive. The Irish rap group, who have been outspoken critics of Israel and advocates for Palestine, announced today that, as promised, they’re suing a Canadian legislator whose public comments about them “were wholly untrue and deeply malicious.”…
The end is nigh for Stranger Things, as the first part of the show’s fifth and final season premiered on Netflix earlier this week. The final season is rolling out in three volumes, and so is the newly announced soundtrack. Legacy has today shared the first part of Stranger Things: Soundtrack From the Netflix Series,…
The Aphex Twin fan experience can be quite piecemeal. Sometimes Richard D. James gives us carefully curated packages like last year’s Selected Ambient Works reissue. And sometimes we get unpolished gems dumped onto the internet with haphazard filenames. So it went on Thanksgiving, when James posted two versions of a track called “Zahl am1” to…
