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News Record Store Day Sets 2021 RSD Drop Dates Last year, coronavirus forced Record Store Day organizers to postpone their annual event, leading them to dole out exclusives over three sta...
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News Drake Is Releasing a 'Scary Hours' EP Tonight Drake postponed the release of hotly anticipated new album Certified Lover Boy earlier this year, but the album might be nearing completion....
News Fiver Announces New Album with the Atlantic School of Spontaneous Composition Last year, Fiver (a.k.a. Toronto-based singer-songwriter Simone Schmidt) joined forces with a trio of Halifax music scene fixtures, dubbed t...
News Sharon Van Etten's 'epic' Covered by Fiona Apple, Lucinda Williams and Courtney Barnett for Anniversary Reissue Sharon Van Etten is celebrating the 10th anniversary of her 2010 album epic with an epic re-release. The album is being dusted off as epic T...
News Steve Albini on Joe Rogan and Barstool Sports: "Just F*** Them All in the Eye" While Steve Albini was able to laugh off some cranky commentary from Elvis Costello late last year, he has pulled no punches in sharing how...
News Alamo Drafthouse — Parent Company of Mondo and Death Waltz — Files for Bankruptcy Independent American movie theatre chain Alamo Drafthouse — the parent company of soundtrack record labels Mondo and Death Waltz — is filing...
News Wu-Tang Clan Will Only Make 36 Copies of Their New 400-Pound Photo Book It probably isn't a surprise considering the ornate packaging for Once Upon a Time in Shaolin, but Wu-Tang Clan will now apply a similarly l...
News Van Morrison's New Album Has Songs Titled "They Own the Media" and "Why Are You on Facebook?" Last year, Van Morrison used his songwriting to rail against lockdowns, but the time indoors couldn't have been that bad, as he has now retu...
News David Crosby Sells Entire Music Catalogue to Irving Azoff Rock legend David Crosby (who is more recently known by another nickname) recently declared his intent to sell his entire songwriting catalo...
News Justice Aren't Too Happy About Justin Bieber's 'Justice' Album Art Justin Bieber recently announced his new album Justice, and ICYMI, the record comes with one hell of a bad cover. But not only is the cover...
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Streams Jaguar Sun and Jesse Maranger Team Up for "Sunset" Video Jaguar Sun released his psychedelic dream pop album This Empty Town last summer, and now he's back with a new collaborative EP alongside fel...
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Streams Patrick Watson Shares Cover of French Classic "Que reste-t-il de nos amours?" Patrick Watson has shared a cover of Charles Trenet's classic French song "Que reste-t-il de nos amours?" through Secret City Records almost...
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Streams Our First Trailer for the Creation Records Biopic Is Here After a frustratingly brief teaser early this year, we've now got our first proper trailer for the Creation Records biopic Creation Stories,...
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Streams Watch a New Video for Xiu Xiu's Collaboration with Liars' Angus Andrew Experimental pop explorers Xiu Xiu are about to release their 12th studio album OH NO. Before it arrives in full later this month, they've s...
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Streams Kevin Drew Unearths "How's It Going" Rarity Broken Social Scene's Kevin Drew has emerged with a new previously unheard rarity. It's called "How's It Going," which was recorded way back...
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Reviews Bob Dylan's '1970' Turns a Copyright Technicality into a Must-Hear Meeting with George Harrison How big is Bob Dylan's basement and exactly how many more tapes has he got down there? That's one of the intriguing questions this "copyr...
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