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Courtney Barnett celebrated the early release of her highly anticipated fourth album, Creature of Habit, with an intimate performance at Rough Trade in NYC, featuring five new songs and two older tracks.

"D.C. is a nexus point where national politics and grassroots organizing collide to produce a one-of-a-kind arts scene that has always stood out for being highly engaged and mutually cooperative."

Gelli Haha's debut album Switcheroo was one of our favorites of 2025, and she's about to begin her first headlining tour supporting it.

The Good Ole American Saturday Night is the first album from Big D and the Kids Table in five years, set to release on June 12 via SideOneDummy.

Magoo ain't your grandpappy's bluegrass. The progressive quartet out of Denver honors the timeless roots of the tradition while adventuring into new territory.

The first single, 'Timebomb,' is moody with distorted piano. Krug describes it as 'a song about a song about a band on tour, or rather, about the failed revision of that song, upon sadly realizing that its original message no longer rings true.'

Guests on Lavender Networks include Zola Jesus, Brothertiger, Naliah Hunter, Lipsticism, and Angel Marcloid's wife, Liverfire, and sister Sling Beam. A more off-piste guest, Americana singer Jennifer Holm, also features.

He represents what we're dealing with right now. He sees congressmen, senators, and even probably presidents, as people who answer to him and other billionaires, who don't think you and I should vote.

Abraham Vazquez has this lusty, powerful, aching voice. This song is about loss, and you feel it with every inch of intensity that he's performing.

"Sometimes I would point my microphone towards the audience and I would make them sing it. There's moments where I cheated and I tapped on the microphone, like it was the microphone's fault."

'Lighter' finds Jelly Roll and León channeling anthemic power and providing soulful, escalating vocals, with León singing part of his part in Spanish.

Alice Coltrane was integral to the radicalism of her husband's late, gamechanging period from the masterpiece A Love Supreme onwards. Not only did they create a sense of stability from 1963 in raising a family and marrying, post his quitting heroin, but they were partners in spiritual and musical exploration.

"I've been in therapy six days a week for 70 weeks. I did the math the other day: over 430 sessions."

Fenriz describes Pre-Historic Metal as 'a loose term,' stating, 'just figure it's our VIBE, our take on things and it's more a statement that we use old style to create something new.' He emphasizes their identity as metal with 'very loud guitars' and characterizes the music as 'frightfully barbaric but not without finesse.'

This record is rooted in the feelings of revenge and vindication. These are emotions that can either push us forward or hold us back. There's a duality to them. They can fuel growth, drive ambition, and help us rise above what's tried to break us, but they can also become destructive if we let them consume us.

All but one of the song titles on Body Sound, the debut album from experimental string trio Whitney Johnson, Lia Kohl, and Macie Stewart, line up nicely-a few words, usually two, usually nouns, separated by a vertical line. The straight line in the middle means different things in different disciplines. In computing, it's called a 'pipe' and serves as a conduit. In poetry, it denotes a pause or break. In music, it marks the beginning and end of measures.

Songwriting is a difficult undertaking that gets harder and harder because you have to top your past work. You have to keep proving yourself. It's wonderful to sing 'Calendar Girl' and 'Breaking Up Is Hard to Do,' but you need more than that. You have to break new ground. As an artist, I have to choose what I feel is good and hope that the public will go along with it.