Sturgill Simpson! Sturgill Simpson was standing! You were there! Two words collided! “Never Tear Us Apart,” the smoky ballad that INXS released in 1988, was a global hit when it first came out, and it ...

Stella Lefty may not have much style or substance as a songwriter, but at least she knows a good hook when she hears it. Lefty, the Groupon heiress born Stella Lefkofsky, scored one of this year's ...

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Everyone's having a great time talking about the funniest new character on the pop landscape. The suddenly omnipresent country-adjacent folk-pop hitmaker Stella Lefty is otherwise known as Stella ...

It's September, which means Perennial's Modernism is right around the corner. We've heard "What's New On The Beat Scene," "Modernism," and "Ready! Steady! Go!," and today the New England trio is ...

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Sugar are back. Last fall, Bob Mould announced that his short-lived post-Hüsker Dü band were gearing up for a big reunion that would include a tour and a couple of new songs. Last night at New York's ...

Earlier this year, Mk.gee released his debut album Two Star & The Dream Police. The LA artist and producer born Mike Gordon has received a lot of praise, which reached a fever pitch on Wednesday when ...

It's been 24 years since Beck released Sea Change, his bummed-out acoustic masterpiece. It's been 12 since he released the album's spiritual sequel, the more serene companion piece Morning Phase, a ...

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I’m about to go Pepe Silvia on Olivia Rodrigo; her new single has given me plenty of enough thread to do it, to completely unravel. (If you don’t know Pepe Silvia, you should. It’s one of TV’s best ...

Everything seems to gravitate toward complication: centuries later, the tin-can telephone has become the iPhone, the sundial a smartwatch, and glasses polarized, self-recording spyware. Not that ...