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How do you sum up a year in music when the song of the summer was a travel commercial? If “Nothing Beats a Jet2 Holiday” proved anything, it’s that the music landscape is in unprecedented territory in ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: We wrote this back in 2021, but with Christmas upon us again we felt like it was the perfect time to update it. There's nothing that brings the world together more than sharing opinions ...

LB Beistad is a writer and musician based in Nashville, TN. Her love of gaming began with her cousin introducing her to Banjo Kazooie and Jak and Daxter. It was love at first play. Since then, she has ...

Anyone who thinks that three’s a crowd has never toured in a rock band with four or five or more musicians. Some of you reading this know exactly what I mean. Crammed into a 15-passenger van and ...

It’s easy to assume the 1970s rock scene was dominated entirely by the likes of Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Fleetwood Mac and Queen. Beneath the stadium lights, however, a galaxy of brilliant, bizarre, ...

The foundations of funk were laid down in the mid-1960s, when James Brown began to emphasize the first beat of each measure in his stage-tested and frenzy-inducing R&B songs. Before the decade's end, ...

Under new rules Spotify announced today, an AI “band” like the now-infamous Velvet Sundown will still be allowed on the service, but would be encouraged to label itself properly from the start.

Top Japanese girl band AKB48 have released a single created using AI, after it proved more popular with fans than a rival song written by famed J-pop producer Yasushi Akimoto. As part of a songwriting ...

London three-piece bar italia are releasing a new album, Some Like It Hot, on October 17 via Matador. Now they have shared another single from it, “rooster.” Watch the song’s Simon Mercer-directed ...

Here they come to strum the "rooster." Some Like It Hot, the latest album from British weirdo cool-kid indie rockers bar italia, is out exactly one month from today. To remind us it's on the way, the ...

Black Happy trombonist Jay Carkhuff doesn't remember a lot about the band's early days. But he remembers the very, very beginning, when he and a few other members of the North Idaho College jazz band ...