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Ross the Boss Friedman, Guitarist for the Dictators and Manowar, Dead at 72
Ross “The Boss” Friedman, the guitarist who helped invent American hard rock twice over, died on Friday. He was 72. His death was confirmed by former bandmates and...
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Ska-Punk Never Actually Left. It Just Stopped Apologizing.
Ska-punk has always had a branding problem. The name conjures a specific image: horns over distorted guitars, fast tempos, a singer in cargo shorts delivering what feels like...
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Sublime Announce First Album in Thirty Years, With Jakob Nowell at the Front
Sublime are back. Not Sublime With Rome, not some tribute band working the festival circuit on nostalgia alone, but the actual surviving members of one of the most...
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Trip-Hop: The Sound That Refused to Stay in One Room
Trip-hop is the genre name that nobody in the genre particularly wanted. Massive Attack resisted it. Portishead mostly ignored it. Tricky rejected it outright and spent the rest...
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Paul McCartney Announces The Boys of Dungeon Lane, His First Album in Six Years
Paul McCartney has announced a new studio album, The Boys of Dungeon Lane, due May 29 via MPL/Capitol. Produced by Andrew Watt, the record is framed as an...
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Math Rock Has Always Been About Feeling, Not Formulas
Math rock is probably the most misleading genre name in contemporary music, and that is saying something in a field that includes shoegaze, post-rock, and emo. The name...
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Central Cee Drops Surprise EP All Roads Lead Home and It Lands Where It Should
Central Cee dropped a surprise EP this week, and it feels less like a detour and more like a thesis statement. All Roads Lead Home arrived on March...
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Indie Dance: The Genre That Never Needed Permission to Exist
There is a moment in a certain kind of song where the guitar riff stops being about tension and starts being about release, and the beat underneath it...
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Bloc Party Debuted Three New Songs in Manchester and the Trevor Horn Album Is Starting to Come Into Focus
Bloc Party took the BBC 6 Music Festival stage in Manchester on Thursday night and delivered something the crowd almost certainly did not expect: three brand-new songs from...
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Noise Rock: The Genre That Never Pretended to Be Likeable
Noise rock has an image problem that it has never entirely tried to solve. The name is off-putting to people who do not know it, and accurate enough...