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And before you get mad, he's literally written an entire song about his hair's state of distress. What are they putting in the water in Australia? Singlet-wearing king of awkward specificity Tom Cardy might be a top-tier comedy musician, but I've ...

If it wasn't the ICE recruitment ads that drove you off Spotify, it was probably the deluge of AI slop pushed by the platform. If I have to see another album some guy generated and published under Akira Yamaoka's name, I'm going to lose it. -- Read ...

Before it became a dumping ground for terrible reality TV, MTV was a cultural phenomenon. If you didn't grow up with it, the impact is hard to convey. The constant stream of music videos made our relationship with music feel immediate and intimate. -

Listen to an incredible cover of Laura Palmer's Theme from David Lynch's Twin Peaks by Dave the Cat Piano. This genius version retains the Lynchian mood but is sung entirely in meows from a plastic children's cat-piano toy. Each note produces a ...

From Blondie's Bowery loft to the esoteric frontier: Gary Lachman's remarkable journey

In the new Disney+ documentary series "The Beatles Anthology," a 1991 interview is presented in which the then-surviving Beatles describe secretly spiking the tea served to engineer Geoff Emerick and producer George Martin with "uppers" in order to ...

Uploaded to YouTube on Christmas Eve were "some old tunes" by Boards of Canada, dated to 1985-1996--before their first studio album. Fans starved of new releases are delighted; the consensus is that it's an authentic set, with some justified paranoia ...

David Bowie, the English singer, songwriter and everything else, would have been 79 today. We still need heroes. His daughter, Lexi Jones, posted a tribute: "Da big 79 today. Happy birthday pops, miss ya." A treat: Bowie's excellent one-sentence ...

If you need a few moments of soothing meditation (and let's be honest, who couldn't use some quieting of the mind right about now?), stop what you're doing and take a listen to the beautiful music that the duo Jack and Dad have been making and ...

Lark Street Music in Teaneck, New Jersey, specializes in vintage guitars. It even has a wonderful vintage website. Buzzy Levine, proprietor of the store since 1981, reported the unexpected return of two recently-stolen mandolins, along with a ...