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Lily Allen Is Taking West End Girl to the Arenas This Fall
Lily Allen is heading back to North America, and this time she is skipping the theaters entirely. The singer announced this week that her West End Girl tour...
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K-Pop After BTS: What the Genre Became While the World Was Looking Away
K-pop stopped being a niche genre a long time ago. The moment when it crossed into genuine global mainstream consciousness is usually marked as 2019 or 2020, when...
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Weezer Announce The Gathering Tour With The Shins and Silversun Pickups This Fall
Weezer are heading out on a proper arena run this fall, and they are bringing some very good company with them. The band announced “Weezer: The Gathering,” a...
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Dub Techno Has Been Waiting Thirty Years. It Is Still Right.
Dub techno is not a genre that announces itself. It does not have a mascot, a defining festival, or a moment you can point to and say: this...
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Guns N Roses World Tour Begins Without Melissa Reese
The 2026 Guns N’ Roses World Tour kicked off in Mexico City on Saturday, March 28, but it did so without the person who has been a quiet...
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The Americana Revival Has a Different Sound This Time
Americana has always resisted easy definition. It is not country, exactly, though country runs through it. It is not folk, though folk is in the bones. It is...
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Ross ‘The Boss’ Friedman, Dictators and Manowar Guitarist, Dead at 72
Ross “The Boss” Friedman is dead at 72. The announcement came from the Metal Hall of Fame on Thursday, confirming what his fans had feared since Friedman went...
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Post-Metal: The Genre That Lives Between Crush and Collapse
Post-metal is a genre that takes its name from where it starts, not where it ends up. The “post” in the label is doing a lot of work....
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Muse Announce North American Tour Behind New Album The WOW! Signal
Muse have announced a massive North American amphitheater run in support of their forthcoming tenth album, The WOW! Signal. The tour, dubbed “The WOW! Signal Tour,” kicks off...
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How Reggaeton Became Everyone’s Genre Without Asking Permission
Reggaeton spent about a decade being dismissed, ignored, or condescended to by the English-language music press. Then, quietly, it became inescapable. Then, less quietly, it became one of...