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    • Neil Young Announces New Album with The Chrome Hearts, Second Song, Shares 11.5-Minute Title Track: Stream

      Neil Young has announced Second Song, a new seven-track album with his backing band The Chrome Hearts, due for release on 18 September via Reprise Records. Its lead single and title track, an 11-and-a-half-minute acoustic piece, reflects on life, love and the future after Young said recent politics had left him disheartened. The album is…

    • Carly Rae Jepsen Shares ABBA-Inspired New Song ‘Don’t Leave Me on the Dance Floor’

      Carly Rae Jepsen has released ‘Don’t Leave Me on the Dance Floor’, an ABBA-inspired single from her forthcoming double album, Day and Night. The song marks the first preview of the album’s ‘Night’ half and is accompanied by a video directed by playwright Jeremy O. Harris, featuring Alden Ehrenreich and Olivia Washington. Jepsen said the…

    • MIT boffins’ TONTOU attack slips through Spectre defenses on Intel and AMD CPUs

      MIT researchers have developed TONTOU, a speculative-execution attack that can bypass some Spectre v2 defences on Intel and AMD processors. It matters because it challenges the assumption that branch-predictor state remains safe between a system’s protective sanitisation step and the later execution of sensitive code. The technique uses carefully timed timer interrupts to re-poison branch-prediction…

    • John Waters Is Aging Disgracefully, Thank Goodness

      John Waters, the cult filmmaker known as the “Pope of Trash”, reflects on turning 80 while continuing to host Oakland’s Mosswood Meltdown punk festival with deliberately provocative humour. His refusal to become more conventional matters because it underlines the longevity of a career built on satirising social norms, shock comedy and independent creative control. Waters…

    • “This Is As Authentic As It Gets” Masego Interviewed

      Masego discusses his new 16-track album, ‘Fix Your Face’, describing it as his most vulnerable and authentic work to date. The Jamaican-American musician says the record moves beyond the bravado and charisma often associated with R&B, using open-hearted songwriting across jazz, soul and R&B to reveal more of his personal perspective. He says the album’s…

    • Carly Rae Jepsen Shares “Don’t Leave Me On The Dance Floor” With Jeremy O. Harris’ First-Ever Music Video

      Carly Rae Jepsen has released “Don’t Leave Me On The Dance Floor”, the latest single from her forthcoming double album Day And Night, alongside a music video directed by playwright Jeremy O. Harris. The ABBA-inspired track introduces the album’s “night” side and marks Harris’s first music-video directing role, with the video depicting a couple attempting…

    • Fenix Flexin Finally Admits He Used AI For “Rubberz”

      Fenix Flexin has acknowledged using AI in the creation of his hit “Rubberz”, after months of avoiding direct answers to allegations about the song. The admission matters because it settles a public dispute over the track’s unusually stylised sound and vocals, while adding to wider debate about AI’s role in music-making. AI software company Treblo…

    • US unexpectedly lost 23,000 jobs in July as slump in growth continues

      US employers unexpectedly cut 23,000 jobs in July, signalling a sharper slowdown in the labour market than economists had anticipated. The figures may reduce pressure on the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates despite persistent inflation, particularly as growth has weakened during the summer and amid conflict in the Middle East. The unemployment rate remained…

    • Boardroom struggle deepens gloom as West Ham prepare for life on the outside

      West Ham begin life in the Championship against Portsmouth amid a bleak summer dominated by boardroom conflict and anger towards co-owner David Sullivan. The club are favourites for promotion, but the dispute over ownership, Sullivan’s continued presence and allegations against him have overshadowed hopes of an immediate return to the Premier League. London Stadium operators…

    • Eau the Music Shares New Single ‘In This Silence’

      Montréal-born, Ottawa-based artist Eau the Music has released ‘In This Silence’, the first single from her forthcoming debut album, ‘Light in the Dark’. The self-produced track blends dream pop, shoegaze and alternative rock, and introduces a project shaped by personal reflection on identity, love, loss and change. Eau the Music, pronounced “O the Music”, wrote,…