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Live Nation & Justice Department Reportedly Reach Settlement In Antitrust Lawsuit

Tom Breihan — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 14:24:35 +0000

In 2024, Joe Biden's Department Of Justice filed an antitrust lawsuit against live-entertainment giants Live Nation and Ticketmaster, intended to break up the monopoly of the two companies that merged in 2010. Now, the DOJ, currently operating under Donald Trump and Pam Bondi, has reportedly settled that lawsuit before the case could go to trail.

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Michael Stipe & Andrew Watt Share Rooster Theme Song “I Played The Fool”

Tom Breihan — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 14:03:28 +0000

Over the weekend, former R.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe got up onstage with Michael Shannon and Jason Narducy’s R.E.M. covers project in Brooklyn, and he sang “These Days” and “The Great Beyond” for the first time in 18 years. Today, we get to hear Stipe sing again, except this time he’s doing a new song. Stipe…

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This Is Lorelei Announces Box For Buddy Super Deluxe With Even More Covers: Hear Hayley Williams & Daniel James’ “Perfect Hand”

Tom Breihan — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 14:00:27 +0000

Sometimes, one deluxe edition just isn’t enough. It’s been almost two years since This Is Lorelei, the solo project from Water From Your Eyes’ Nate Amos, released Box For Buddy, Box For Stars. It was one of our favorite albums of 2024. Last year, This Is Lorelei released a deluxe edition of the album, featuring…

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Doja Cat Weighs In On Timothée Chalamet’s Disrespectful Opera Quip

Abby Jones — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 13:33:00 +0000

Timothée Chalamet is in trouble with opera and ballet fans. Recently the actor, who's up for the Best Actor Oscar this weekend for his role in Marty Supreme, had this to say during a Variety town hall with Matthew McConaughey: "I don’t want to be working in ballet, or opera, or things where it’s like, ‘Hey, keep this thing alive, even though like no one cares about this anymore.' All respect to the ballet and opera people out there." Opera singers and ballet companies around the world have since clapped back at Chalamet for those comments, and now you can count Doja Cat among opera's defenders.

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Woman Arrested After Allegedly Firing Shots At Rihanna’s Home

Tom Breihan — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 13:05:55 +0000

On Sunday afternoon, Los Angeles police arrested an unidentified 30-year-old woman outside Rihanna's mansion, just north of Beverly Hills. Police say that the woman fired several shots at Rihanna's house when the pop star was inside. According to LA's ABC 7, nobody was hurt in the shooting, and bullets only hit the exterior of the house and a vehicle parked outside.

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The Alternative Number Ones: 311’s “Down”

Tom Breihan — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 12:44:20 +0000

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Opera Community Claps Back At Timothée Chalamet

Abby Jones — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 19:24:14 +0000

Timothée Chalamet has been catching some flak over the past few days for comments he made about opera and ballet. Last month he reunited with his Interstellar dad Matthew McConaughey for a Variety/CNN town hall, during which they debated how short-form video content and waning audience attention spans play into box office turnouts and the pacing of popular screenplays: "I admire people, and I’ve done it myself, who go on a talk show and say, ‘Hey, we’ve got to keep movie theaters alive, we’ve gotta keep this genre alive,'" Timmy Tim said. "And another part of me feels like if people want to see it, like Barbie, like Oppenheimer, they’re going to go see it and go out of their way to be loud and proud about it."

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Joseph “Country Joe” McDonald Dead At 84

Abby Jones — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 17:14:29 +0000

Joseph “Country Joe” McDonald has died. The singer/songwriter who fronted counterculture folk-rock icons Country Joe And The Fish died of complications from Parkinson's disease last night, according to TMZ and Best Classic Bands. McDonald wrote the psychedelic Berkeley, California band’s most enduring songs, including the Vietnam War protest anthem “The Fish Cheer/I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-To-Die Rag” and “Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine,” their sole Hot 100 hit. Country Joe And The Fish were fixtures of San Francisco’s Summer Of Love in 1967 and also played one of the most famous sets at Woodstock. Over his career, he released dozens of solo albums in addition to his output with the group, most recently 50 in 2017. McDonald was 84.

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Punch The Monkey Visited By Fellow Celebrity

Abby Jones — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 17:09:12 +0000

Japan's Ichikawa City Zoo is the latest zoo to benefit from one of their animals having a viral moment online. This time the animal star is Punch, a baby snow monkey who started getting a lot of attention earlier this year due in part to his sad origin story: He was abandoned by his mother shortly after his birth last summer, and in her absence Punch got attached to a stuffed orangutan toy from IKEA. Other macaques at the zoo, oblivious to the outcast's rising fame, have been documented bullying poor Punch. But in recent weeks, the folks at Ichikawa say Punch has been doing a much better job socializing, he's clinging to his plushie less often, and he's even able to go a full day without getting bullied. Now Punch is hanging out with real-deal celebrities.

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SNL: Harry Styles Upstages Ryan Gosling, Gorillaz Play “Clint Eastwood”

Abby Jones — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 15:17:51 +0000

Last night Gorillaz were the musical guest on SNL, marking Damon Albarn's debut on the show. Their new UK #1 album The Mountain just came out a couple of weeks ago, but they only played one song from it: "The Moon Cave," during which they were joined by Asha Puthli, Black Thought, and Anoushka Shankar. They also played their 25-year-old debut single "Clint Eastwood" with Del The Funky Homosapien. They were introduced by host Ryan Gosling, wearing a prosthetic cyclops eye from a previous sketch. It was the actor's fourth time hosting SNL, not fifth, which was apparently news to him.

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Michael Stipe Sings R.E.M.’s “These Days” & “The Great Beyond” For The First Time In 18 Years

Scott Lapatine — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 04:37:00 +0000

Michael Shannon and Jason Narducy’s R.E.M. covers show returned to New York City's Brooklyn Steel tonight and Michael Stipe joined them on two songs he hadn’t performed in 18 years: “These Days” (from 1986's Lifes Rich Pageant) and “The Great Beyond” (from 1999's Man On The Moon soundtrack).

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Watch Sudan Archives Cover Sade For XMU

Danielle Chelosky — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 21:57:41 +0000

Last year, Sudan Archives returned with her latest record The BPM, which we named one of the best albums of 2025. Now, Brittney Parks is back with a cover of Sade's 1992 song "Cherish The Day" for SiriusXMU.

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Machine Gun Kelly Fan Falls Through Opening In Stage

Danielle Chelosky — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 18:26:25 +0000

Being an MGK fan is one long humiliation ritual. On Thursday (March 5), the rapper-turned-rocker performed at London's O2 Arena and invited a bunch of audience members onstage during his song "bloody valentine." An especially unfortunate one fell right through an opening in the uniquely (dangerously!) designed stage.

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Harry Styles Takes Kiss All The Time To Manchester For First Concert In Three Years

Danielle Chelosky — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 15:31:43 +0000

Yesterday Harry Styles unveiled his highly anticipated and severely underwhelming new album Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally. Last night the pop star celebrated with a special one-off at Manchester's Co-op Live to perform the record in full for the first time.

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Geese’s Emily Green Makes Runway Debut In Givenchy

Danielle Chelosky — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 15:12:34 +0000

It's Paris Fashion Week, and Geesemania is international. Last night the Brooklyn band's guitarist Emily Green made her runway debut at the Givenchy Fall 2026 Ready-To-Wear Show at the Chateau de Vincennes.

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The 5 Best Songs Of The Week

Stereogum — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 21:29:58 +0000

Every week the Stereogum staff chooses the five best new songs of the week. The eligibility period begins and ends Thursdays right before midnight. You can hear this week’s picks below and on Stereogum’s Favorite New Music Spotify playlist, which is updated weekly. (An expanded playlist of our new music picks is available to members on Spotify and Apple Music, updated throughout the week.)

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Slow Down, Breathe, And Listen To Arima Ederra’s Essential New Album A Rush To Nowhere

Margaret Farrell — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 21:11:54 +0000

I implore you to listen to Arima Ederra’s sophomore album A Rush To Nowhere. The Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter’s follow-up to 2022’s An Orange Colored Day captures that feeling when your lungs make room for extra oxygen and life slows down. Things begin to feel more tangible, clearer. A Rush To Nowhere has an urgent ’80s rock…

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Deloyd Elze’s Deconstructed Country Ballads Sound Splendid On The New Nellene EP

Chris DeVille — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 20:41:22 +0000

LA-based Deloyd Elze specializes in deconstructed sad-eyed alt-country. There’s more than a little Bon Iver in the way he dissects the singer-songwriter format, but there’s nothing abstract about his deep drawl and plainspoken lyrics, which remind me of everyone from Fust to Justin Townes Earle to Zach Bryan at times. Sorry to go full RIYL…

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Premature Evaluation: Harry Styles Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally

Chris DeVille — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 20:30:47 +0000

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Katie Alice Greer Announces New Album Perfect Woman Sound Machine, Vol. 1: Hear “Unglued”

Margaret Farrell — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 20:03:45 +0000

Katie Alice Greer is back. The former frontwoman of Priests is releasing another solo album titled Perfect Woman Sound Machine, Vol. 1 next month via GAK Records. It's the follow-up to her 2022 solo debut Barbarism, which honestly fucking rocked. Greer has already released a couple singles from the project, including "Expo '70" and "Talk To Leslie." Today, she's back with another called "Unglued," which reminds us that this world teaches us that nothing is ever enough. "Western hegemony compels me and everybody I know to always want more," she announces over guitar screams and a whirling sense of despair.

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DJ Sabrina The Teenage DJ – “HeartsDesires”

Tom Breihan — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 17:49:58 +0000

We’re spoiled. The mysterious sample wizard known as DJ Sabrina The Teenage DJ releases so much warm, nostalgia-drenched music that you can just immerse yourself in her sound and lose all touch with reality. That’s a fun thing to do. I recommend it. In December, DJ Sabrina released her fantastical album Fantasy, which is 40…

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Cindy Announce New Album Another Country: Hear “Procession”

Tom Breihan — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 17:36:44 +0000

San Francisco’s Cindy have been making gorgeous, delicate slowcore for years, and they’re extremely good at it. We last heard from them when they released the 2024 EP Swan Lake, and now they’ve announced plans to follow it with a new LP called Another Country. This is the first time that frontwoman Karina Gill has…

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Girl Scout – “Crumbs”

Margaret Farrell — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 17:20:15 +0000

Next month Sweden’s Girl Scout are releasing their debut album Brink. They’ve given us glimpses with “Same Kids,” “Operator,” and “Keeper.” Today they’ve shared their final single before the project comes out. “Crumbs” is a glistening power pop indictment of posers and users in the music industry. “You bleed me dry and leave me with…

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John Dwyer Shares Surprise New OSEES EP Cara Maluco, Damaged Bug Single “Over-Exposed”

Tom Breihan — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 17:20:02 +0000

I wonder if psychedelic garage rock overlord John Dwyer can keep all of his projects straight in his mind. He definitely doesn’t make it easy for anyone else. Dwyer releases a lot of music under a lot of different names, and two of his projects, OSEES and Damaged Bug, have new tracks out today. OSEES,…

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Fucked Up Announce Year Of The Monkey, Share Two Half-Hour Tracks

Tom Breihan — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 16:59:51 +0000

Fucked Up are no strangers to ambitious projects, but it’s hard to imagine anything more ambitious than what they’ve currently got underway. For decades, Fucked Up have been releasing long, expansive 12″ singles dedicated to the years of the Chinese Zodiac calendar. They’re finishing it up with a massive new series called Grass Can Move…

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Dogstar Announce New Album All In Now: Hear The Title Track

Tom Breihan — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 16:28:04 +0000

Keanu Reeves looked at his bass and whisper-shouted through gritted teeth, “People keep asking if I’m back, and I haven’t really had an answer. But now, yeah! I’m thinking I’m back!” This is me being stupid. Keanu Reeves probably did not actually do that. But on the subject of rocking out with his reunited ’90s…

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Wesley Joseph – “Pluto Baby”

Margaret Farrell — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 16:14:23 +0000

Walsall-born, London-based artist Wesley Joseph is dropping his debut album Forever Ends Someday on April 10. Today, he has shared the newest single from the forthcoming LP. It’s called “Pluto Baby” and it comes with a video directed by Lokmane. The press release notes that the visual was filmed at the Paris Communist Party Headquarters. Well,…

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Irreversible Entanglements – “Juntos Vencemos” (Feat. Helado Negro)

Danielle Chelosky — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 16:08:16 +0000

A couple weeks ago, Irreversible Entanglements announced their new album Future Present Past and released the singles “Don’t Lose Your Head” and “Vibrate Higher.” Today, the free jazz collective is back with “Juntos Vencemos” featuring Helado Negro. “‘Juntos Vencemos’ means ‘together we overcome’ in Spanish,” the quintet explains, continuing: At one point in our recording…

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Fugazi’s Shelved In On The Kill Taker Sessions With Steve Albini Have Finally Been Officially Released

Chris DeVille — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 15:58:57 +0000

In the fall of 1992, Fugazi traveled to Chicago to record with Steve Albini at his studio Electrical Audio, which at the time was located in a basement on North Francisco. The band and Albini had admired each other from afar, and they struck up an immediate affinity during the sessions. They were only supposed to record a few songs, but once things got rolling, they ended up tracking 12 — the entirety of what would later become the In On The Kill Taker tracklist.

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face of ancient gallery (bloodsports’ Jeremy Mock) Announces New Album Like Kites: Hear The Title Track

Margaret Farrell — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 15:49:47 +0000

Last year, NYC’s bloodsports’ released a great debut album, Anything Can Be A Hammer, and became one of Best New Artists of 2025. Turns out, one of the band’s guitarists, Jeremy Mock, has his own project called face of ancient gallery and is gearing up to release a new album Like Kites on May 1…

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Coca-Cola’s World Cup Jingle Is A Chaotic Van Halen Cover From J Balvin, Steve Vai, Travis Barker, & Amber Mark

Margaret Farrell — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 15:48:02 +0000

Amber Mark, J Balvin, Travis Barker, and Steve Vai have teamed up to cover Van Halen’s “Jump” as the Coca-Cola Anthem for the FIFA World Cup 2026. Does this make sense? Absolutely not. Is it terrible? Only a little bit. Do I ever want to hear it again? No. That said, Mark’s voice sounds good…

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The Mountain Goats & Mary Chapin Carpenter Team Up On Two New Cover Songs

Tom Breihan — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 15:43:12 +0000

Here’s a combination I never expected to see. Country-folk star Mary Chapin Carpenter was been making stately, pretty music since 1987. In the ’90s, she sold millions and won a bunch of Grammys. She was one of my dad’s favorite singers. Carpenter turns out to be friends with John Darnielle, frontman of the Mountain Goats,…

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Honey Dijon Announces New Album NightLife: Hear “Just Friends”

Tom Breihan — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 15:17:39 +0000

Over the last few years, the veteran house producer Honey Dijon has collaborated with people like Beyoncé and Jamie xx. In January, she released the single “Slight Werk” with Bree Runway. Last week, she announced the impending release of NightLife, a new club-centric album that’ll feature collaborations with people like Rochelle Jordan, Chlöe, Madison McFerrin,…

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Goo Goo Dolls’ “Iris” Gets Inevitable Steve Aoki Remix

Margaret Farrell — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 15:17:18 +0000

Nearly three decades after its release, Goo Goo Dolls’ “Iris” has been enjoying a major retrospective surge. The City Of Angels ballad has been percolating in the pop-cultural ether for a few years now. Remember when Phoebe Bridgers and Maggie Rogers covered it in 2020? You probably don’t remember this, but masked singer RMR covered…

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Fontaines Friday: Hear Their New Sinéad O’Connor Cover & Peaky Blinders Songs

Tom Breihan — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 14:50:22 +0000

Almost two years after the release of their album Romance, Irish rock stars Fontaines D.C. remain plenty busy. For instance, they’re all over War Child’s new benefit compilation HELP(2), which comes out today. Frontman Grian Chatten teamed up with Damon Albarn and Kae Tempest for the early single “Flags,” and the compilation also features Fontaines…

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Jehnny Beth – “Look At Me” (Feat. Mike Patton)

Tom Breihan — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 14:15:35 +0000

Former Savages leader Jehnny Beth and Faith No More/Mr. Bungle frontman Mike Patton are two tough, commanding, larger-than-life vocalists, and now they’ve joined forces on a blaring electro-rock single called “Look At Me.” Beth released her solo album You Heartbreaker, You last year, and she just celebrated the 10th anniversary of Savages’ Adore. Today, she…

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Olivia Rodrigo – “The Book Of Love” (The Magnetic Fields Cover)

Tom Breihan — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 13:51:51 +0000

Today, War Child’s all-star benefit compilation HELP(2) finally comes out. It’s a good one. The record, our current reigning Album Of The Week, has new songs from heavy hitters like Cameron Winter, the Arctic Monkeys, and Pulp. It’s also got a ton of extremely cool covers: Beth Gibbons doing the Velvet Underground, Arooj Aftab and…

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Zara Larsson Addresses Critics Of Her Abortion Joke

Danielle Chelosky — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 03:01:26 +0000

Zara Larsson does it all: Raises awareness of unflattering Wikipedia photos, accidentally wears Burzum dresses to awards shows. The Swedish pop star's next move can never be guessed. Today, she's doubling down after receiving backlash for an abortion joke.

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Damon Albarn Mostly Stone-Faced In SNL Promos, Scoring Movie About ChatGPT Creators

Danielle Chelosky — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 01:13:39 +0000

This weekend, Damon Albarn makes his long-awaited SNL debut with Gorillaz. Ryan Gosling will serve as host, and the promo came out today, with the English frontman mostly stone-faced with no lines.

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Radiohead, Not Just LCD Soundsystem, Inspired Harry Styles’ New Era

Abby Jones — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 22:20:02 +0000

Tonight Harry Styles will release Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally. In some of the earlier interviews pegged to the new album cycle, Styles mentioned the music was inspired in part by getting to go out dancing and be an audience member at shows himself after his latest tour wrapped up. One such artist who Styles claimed influenced him was LCD Soundsystem. Now Styles has revealed that Radiohead's hotly-anticipated 2025 residency also made a big creative impact on him.

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