Neil Sedaka, the singer and songwriter behind the #1 hits "Breaking Up Is Hard To Do," "Bad Blood," and "Laughter In The Rain," has died. "Our family is devastated by the sudden passing of our beloved husband, father and grandfather, Neil Sedaka," hi... more info

Last week, ICE's social media pages posted a propaganda video soundtracked by a choral version of "Let Down," the 1997 classic that went viral and charted on the Hot 100 last year. That puts Radiohead among the many, many artists who have seen their ... more info

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PinkPantheress is about to be named Producer Of The Year at Saturday’s BRIT Awards. Ahead of that honor, here’s another: Her Fancy That heater “Illegal” has been remixed by her fellow British production great, Four Tet. Kieran Hebden’s cris... more info

Frozen Soul have announced their third album, No Place Of Warmth. The followup to 2023’s Glacial Domination arrives in May, and today the Dallas death metal outfit is unleashing the title track featuring My Chemical Romance’s Gerard Way. Vocalist... more info

Is the EsDeeKid thing already over? I hope it’s not. If it was, it was fun while it lasted. Last year, the masked Liverpool rapper EsDeeKid emerged out of the UK underground with a hard, energetic style. He rapped in incredibly short bursts over bl... more info

Fever Ray’s last record was 2023’s Radical Romantics, which earned our Album Of The Week honor. Now, Karin Dreijer is making their film debut in Maggie Gyllenhaal’s American Gothic romance The Bride! and contributing new songs to the soundtrack... more info

In late 2022, not long after the release of Worm’s Bluenothing EP, project mastermind Phantom Slaughter thought he was being phished. Someone claiming to be Marty Friedman, the former Megadeth and Cacophony guitarist and trailblazing solo artist, h... more info

Swae Lee, the more famous half of the party-starting rap duo Rae Sremmurd, has already made a solo album, sort of. In 2018, Rae Sremmurd attempted to pull off their own Speakerboxxx/The Love Below situation when they released the bad-idea triple albu... more info

The London shoegaze trio deary impressed us with “Seabird,” the lead single from their debut album Birding. They’re back this week with a non-avian new track. The eight-minute epic “Alfie” is about a different kind of animal: It started as ... more info