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It’s Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O’Connor Szn. Our Kiwi goth-pop queen Lorde has returned after four long years with a song from Larry David’s house that is one part “Loaded,” one part “Freedom! ’90,” and one part Jack Antonoff. That’s a recipe for mid-‘90s VH1 core if I heard one. It’s 2021 so Phoebe Bridgers is on it too, as is Clairo (whose new song Lorde sings on). The single artwork has generated the memes Free wish they had in their day. “I love this cover and happy for this to be how people see my butt,” Lorde tells triple j. “I’m so out of touch with meme culture but I’m down.” View th

The Tangier, Morocco band Taqbir originally released their self-titled debut EP online back in February. It caught some people’s attention around the world, including the powerhouse London record label La Vida Es En Mus, who’ve given the EP physical release under the name Victory Belongs To Those Who Fight For A Right Cause. Taqbir make harsh and riotous music teetering on the brink between punk and post-punk. Their songs are vicious tirades in which every drumbeat and guitar strum feels hits with violent intensity and every lyric sounds like a rallying cry. According to the label, these songs

Bruce Springsteen said that he’ll be joining The Killers an upcoming song that should be arriving “in a week or so,” or at least that’s what Springsteen said during a DJ set on SiriusXM’s E Street Radio aka his own station. Prior to the confirmation, The Killers had fun teasing their fans with whatever mystery partnership might be in the works. “We’re announcing a killer collab (pun intended) later this week, but you’ve got to figure out who it’s with,” they wrote on their social media accounts yesterday (June 10). The release would be the first music from The Killers since they put out

Van Morrison and Eric Clapton joined forces again for “The Rebels,” a duet of “Where Have All the Rebels Gone” from Morrison’s new album Latest Record Project: Vol. 1. An accompanying animated video shows drawings of musicians including Axl Rose, Robert Johnson, Kurt Cobain, Lemmy Kilmister of Motorhead on “Wanted: Rebel” posters. The questioning call to action lyrically asks, “Where have all the rebels gone / They’re not saying very much at all,” and surmises that they’re “hiding behind their computer screens.” In December 2020, the duo released “Stand Up and Deliver,” which followed contr

Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson) CD Projekt Red, the maker of The Witcher series, Cyberpunk 2077, and other popular games, said on Friday that proprietary data taken in a ransomware attack disclosed four months ago is likely circulating online. “Today, we have learned new information regarding the breach and now have reason to believe that internal data illegally obtained during the attack is currently being circulated on the Internet,” company officials said in a statement. “We are not yet able to confirm the exact contents of the data in question, though we believe it may include current/

You may have heard Charlotte Day Wilson’s voice on songs by Kaytranada, DJDS, and BADBADNOTGOOD. If not, now is a great time to tune in. The Toronto singer-songwriter and producer is about to release an album of her own, Alpha, and its latest single is a stunner. View the full article

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Every week the Stereogum staff chooses the five best new songs of the week (the eligibility period begins and ends Thursdays right before midnight). This week’s countdown is below, and you can listen to a playlist of all our 5 Best Songs on Spotify. View the full article

Over the last couple years, the enigmatic R&B group Emotional Oranges have built a bit of buzz thanks to a series of EPs. Today, they’re back with a full project called The Juicebox. It’s got eight songs, and each one features a different collaborator. The whole thing kicks off with “All That,” a team-up with Channel Tres first released last year. Becky G and THEY. and several others also appear, and perhaps most notably “Back & Forth” includes a verse from Vince Staples. View the full article

You know you’ve made it when your song is in The Sims. The long-running video game franchise has gotten artists including Snail Mail, Car Seat Headrest, and Carly Rae Jepsen to rerecord their hits in Simlish, the made-up gibberish language that all the little virtual people in the game speak. And in the trailer for the upcoming The Sims 4 Cottage Living expansion pack, which introduces new gameplay elements like farming and befriending animals, you’ll hear the sweet, sweet sounds of “Be Sweet,” the lead single from Japanese Breakfast’s great new album Jubilee, translated into the nonsense syll

Most of the artists features on Kenny Beats’ YouTube series The Cave — in which the producer and his guest build a song from scratch while casually kicking it in the studio — are rappers. Mac DeMarco is not. What today’s new episode of The Cave supposes is… what if he was? View the full article

Volcano Park, the new EP by Chicago rock band Meat Wave, has the weird, tired energy of being under a spell. Whether it’s a dizzy spell or a witchcraft-induced sort of spell, it doesn’t matter. The two opening tracks explode with unrelenting aggression; “Tugboat” and “For Sale” pull the listener into a feverish, upbeat blend of emo and post-hardcore. View the full article

Enlarge / Warning: Learning the care and feeding of MySQL instances does not grant knowledge of or safe interaction with actual marine mammals. (credit: Oracle) One of the tasks nearly any sysadmin frequently encounters is the care and feeding of the MySQL database server. You can build an entire career around nothing but this topic—making you a DB admin, not a humble sysadmin like yours truly—but for today, we're just going to cover the basics. For this guide, we're going to be using Ubuntu Linux as the underlying operating system—but most of these steps and tips will be either the same,

It can’t be a coincidence that the drums are the first thing we hear. Path Of Wellness, Sleater-Kinney’s new album, opens with some busy push-pull riffage and with percussion falling all over itself. We hear clings and clangs and shakers and glass bottles. We hear a big, funky polyrhythmic stew — the type of drums that Janet Weiss would never play. Weiss isn’t that type of drummer. She’s great, and she’s never ostentatious. She stays in the pocket, letting everything else in the song explode around her while holding the center. For their first album since Weiss left the band, Sleater-Kinney ki

The new experiment: after loading a page, Chrome shows only the domain name. [credit: Ron Amadeo ] Chrome is ending its war on address bar URLs—at least for now. About a year ago, Chrome started experimenting with stripping down the URL shown in the address bar to only the domain name, so instead of something like "https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/06/google-is-messing-with-the-address-bar-again-new-experiment-hides-url-path/," the address bar would show only "arstechnica.com," and