CULT FIGURE – SPIN

CULT FIGURE – SPIN

When Mike Sartain, who released his latest EP, Push On Through, in April and goes by the stage name Sartain, saw the back cover of Rancid’s 1994 album Let’s Go for the first time, in ninth grade — with a mohawked, leather-clad Tim Armstrong flipping off the camera — he knew that everything he had…

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King Gizzard & The Lizard AI Clone Booted Off Spotify

King Gizzard & The Lizard AI Clone Booted Off Spotify

Not long after they released their latest album Phantom Island back in June, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard announced they were taking their massive catalog off of Spotify — one of many such cases this year. Now, the unfortunately inevitable has happened: Somebody impersonated King Gizz on Spotify, allegedly using generative AI to do so….

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Pitchfork Launches New Dijon Zine

Pitchfork Launches New Dijon Zine

The star of Pitchfork’s fourth and final zine of the year is Dijon. Few artists had a more impactful 2025 than the Los Angeles singer-songwriter, who not only released his critically acclaimed sophomore album, Baby, but also toured North America, had key features on Justin Bieber’s Swag and Bon Iver’s SABLE, fABLE, and made his…

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