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Jim James, best known as the frontman of My Morning Jacket, has released "Wowed Out", the title track from his upcoming solo album, marking his first solo record in eight years. The song follows June's announcement of the album and the previously shared single "Come Again", continuing the…
Motionless in White have claimed the top spot on both Billboard's Top Hard Rock Albums and Hot Hard Rock Songs charts dated 1 August, driven by the release of their new album Decades. The album marks the band's fourth chart-topper on the Top Hard Rock Albums list, extending…
Eminem is auctioning more than 100 signed sneakers from his personal collection to raise money for the Marshall Mathers Foundation, which supports disadvantaged and at-risk young people in Detroit. The charity sale, organised by Julien's Auctions, takes place on 25 August in Los Angeles and represents the rapper's…
Gracie Abrams has scored her first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 with her third studio album, Daughter From Hell, marking a significant step up from her 2024 breakthrough The Secret of Us, which peaked at No. 2. Billboard staff writers largely view the debut as confirmation…
Bon Iver's Justin Vernon revived Eaux Claires, the music festival he co-curates with The National's Aaron Dessner in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, after an eight-year hiatus, capping the two-day event with a surprise performance in which he channelled Bob Dylan. The festival, which originally ran for four years in…
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New PRIMUS drummer John Hoffman has revealed the band has "done a lot of recording" for its upcoming album, though the material is still very much a work in progress. Hoffman, who joined PRIMUS in 2025 after winning a global audition contest, told Rock 'N' Roll Grad School…
The National Association of Broadcasters will announce the winners on Oct. 20.
The singer-songwriter shared a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the girl group's new single.
▶The article explores the origins and meaning of Nirvana's 1993 song "Heart-Shaped Box," widely regarded as one of the band's darkest and most unsettling love songs. It sets the scene in July 1993, when Kurt Cobain met journalists in New York, shortly after Nirvana's Roseland Ballroom show, to…