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Kikagaku Moyo are one of the most consistently rewarding psych bands going, and they've proven it again today with a contribution to the Sub Pop Singles Club that shows off their eclectic range and hypnotic power. More »View the full article

The Atlanta rapper Young Nudy has come up rapping on the bleary, chaotic beats of ascendant producer Pi'erre Bourne. Nudy was the first artist of any note to work with Bourne, and last year, the two of them teamed up for the collaborative album Sli'merre. At the time, I mostly heard Nudy as … More »View the full article

The Sony Xperia 1 II. It would have been Mobile World Congress this week if not for the panic over the coronavirus—so get ready for plenty of news from the world of international smartphones. First up, we have a reminder that Sony is still out there making cellular telephones, and last night it announced the "Sony Xperia 1 II." Wait, the what?! The "Sony Xperia One Two?" Actually, this is branded similarly to the Sony cameras, so just as the "Sony A7 III" is pronounced "Sony Alpha seven mark three," this thing is apparently the "Sony Xperia One Mark Two." Wild. Like most of the phones that will be announced this week, this is a flagship 2020 smartphone with the Snapdragon 865 and 5G, though Sony opted to only include mid-band 5G and not mmWave. There is a 6.5-inch, 3840×1644 OLED display, 8GB of RAM, 256GB of storage, and a 4000mAh battery. The phone is IP68 rated, and it has a MicroSD slot and wireless charging. It may also be the only flagship smartphone in 2020 with a headphone jack. Like every other Sony smartphone, the design is very square and rather handsome looking. While the rest of the industry is all about maximizing display space with camera notches and other display blemishes, Sony has a pair of symmetrical bezels on the top and bottom that house front-facing stereo speakers and the front camera. The combination of bezels and a 21:9 display makes this one of the tallest smartphones on the market, with measurements of 166mm × 72mm × 7.9mm. Read 7 remaining paragraphs | Comments View the full article

New release coincides with National FFA Week View the full article

A Boogie wit da Hoodie, Tame Impala, and Monsta X all arrived in the Top Ten View the full article

Last year, Jenny Lewis' On the Line was one of the best albums of the year. It was a big album with big goals and it paid off. Thus, when Lewis went to Washington, D.C. to perform a set at NPR's Tiny Desk, it showed just how great of a songwriter she is with two of the three… View the full article

How many good things can you stuff onto one track? Let's try four. Today, 100 gecs are releasing their "ringtone" remix featuring Charli XCX, Rico Nasty, and Kero Kero Bonito. The all-star weirdo pop team-up was teased a few weeks back and it's part of a forthcoming remix album of 100 gecs' 1000 … More »View the full article

But Roddy Ricch's "The Box" continues to own Number One View the full article

"Bib" is a good name for the Omaha band Bib. It's a good name because they sound like they're drooling all over themselves. Bib's music is a sloppy, raw, intentionally ugly take on hardcore punk. There's a lot of murky old-school garage rock in what Bib do, and there's plenty of unstable and tape-hissy Japanese … More »View the full article

Gomez performed acoustic rendition of her new album's title track at Los Angeles' Village Studios View the full article

The band's first new song in 22 years sounds, thrillingly, like vintage 'Loaf View the full article

"We can't wait to raise horns with you again at this once in a metal lifetime event!" the band says View the full article

The Roots have been a Philadelphia institution for decades. ?uestlove and Black Thought, the two original members who are still in the band, formed the Roots in 1987, when they were both students and a Philly performing-arts high school. They played their first show -- not counting street-corner busking -- at a 1989 talent show, … More »View the full article

Grammy-winning producer Julio Reyes Copello brings Abbey Road Studios' world-renowned music production program to America this fall View the full article

We like to have a bit of fun at Jack White's expense around here, but I genuinely love seeing him use his considerable music-biz leeway to spotlight music he loves. For instance, next month White's label Third Man Records will release a previously shelved LP from Detroit punk band the Pathetx, marked with … More »View the full article