7 New Albums You Should Listen to Now: Grace Ives, Elucid, Joyce Manor, and More

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With so much good music being released all the time, it can be hard to determine what to listen to first. Every week, Pitchfork offers a run-down of significant new releases available on streaming services. […]

UB40 featuring Ali Campbell pay tribute to Astro at Hampton Court Palace Festival – Music News

UB40 featuring Ali Campbell pay tribute to Astro at Hampton Court Palace Festival - Music News

UB40 featuring Ali Campbell paid tribute to late band member Astro as they performed at Hampton Court Palace Festival 2022 in London on Thursday night (09.06.22). The legendary reggae group kicked off the festival in […]

‘Neptune Frost’ review: Visually dazzling tech musical

'Neptune Frost' review: Visually dazzling tech musical

“Neptune Frost” — the mesmerizing Afrofuturist musical brainchild of multihyphenate poet-rapper-writer-musician Saul Williams and his wife, Rwandan artist and cinematographer Anisia Uzeyman — opens with a cacophony of color and sound, both digitized and natural. […]

‘Inventing Anna’ star Julia Garner to play Madonna in self-directed biopic

'Inventing Anna' star Julia Garner to play Madonna in self-directed biopic

“Inventing Anna” and “Ozark” star Julia Garner has been offered the role of Madonna for her biopic with Universal Pictures. In an exclusive obtained by Variety, sources say that dozens auditioned for the role of […]

BET Awards defend values after Lil Nas X criticisms

BET Awards defend values after Lil Nas X criticisms

After Lil Nas X accused BET of never really rooting for him anyway, the network released a statement Tuesday defending its values. The Grammy-winning rapper and singer has directed a string of criticisms — and […]

Remembering Dave Smith, inventor of MIDI and the Prophet-5 synthesizer : NPR

Remembering Dave Smith, inventor of MIDI and the Prophet-5 synthesizer : NPR

Dave Smith, center, photographed attending the 2015 North American Music Merchants convention in Anaheim, Calif. Pete Brown/Wikimedia Commons The sound of pop music in the ’80s was shaped by synthesizers – and one of the […]