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1. Alabama Shakes ‘Dream’ Big On New Single

   After breaking more than a decade of silence last year, Alabama Shakes are officially back in motion.

2. Heatwaves, Heartland, and Heavy Truths: MTS Records Finds Its Own Frequency in 2026

   You can usually tell when a label is chasing something—radio, relevance, a moment that might not last. The edges get smoother. The risks get smaller. Everything starts to sound like it’s been run through the same filter. That’s not what’s happening at MTS Management Group/MTS Records right now. If anything, their recent run of releases […]

3. Deep Cut Friday: ‘Would You Mind’ by Janet Jackson

   Each week, SPIN digs into the catalogs of great artists and highlights songs you might not know for our Deep Cut Friday series. Janet Jackson’s music became increasingly sensual and sexually forward in the ’90s, but she didn’t kick up nearly as much moral outrage as Madonna at the time. Jackson’s 2001 album All For […]

4. Live For Live Music Sets Fest By Nite Schedule

   The lineup is complete for the Jazz Fest-adjacent Fest by Nite in New Orleans.

5.  Inside Coachella: The Real Brand Battleground

   This weekend marks the 25th anniversary of Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. For the next three weeks, the industry migrates to Indio. Three weekends. Three completely different plays… Weekend 1: Industry, tastemakers, press, creators  Weekend 2: Fans, scale, repeatable moments Weekend 3: Stagecoach, a different audience, different culture, same intensity Each weekend carries...

6. 5 Albums I Can’t Live Without: John O’Callaghan of The Maine

   Name  John Cornelius O’Callaghan V, but my children call me doodoobutt. Best known for  I once tried to leap frog over Clayton B’s shoulders in 7th grade during PE class and I fell super hard on my arm and thought I broke it but I didn’t but my brain does this fight or flight thing to me […]

7. Disgraced Hip-Hop Legend Afrika Bambaataa Dies

   No cause has been revealed; the news was confirmed by the Universal Zulu Nation, which he formed in 1973.

8. Finneas Takes The Reins For ‘BEEF’ Soundtrack

   Finneas O'Connell is heading deeper into Hollywood scoring territory by taking on full composing duties for season 2 of Netflix's BEEF, and it's world he's been living in for the better part of a year.

9. The Hellp Talks ‘Riviera’ On ‘Lipps Service’

   Los Angeles electronic music duo the Hellp is the guest on the latest installment of the Lipps Service podcast.

10.  It’s Hip to Be Squarepusher

    In 2002, the electronic musician born Tom Jenkinson released his sixth studio album, Do You Know Squarepusher. That record’s mix of hardcore drum and bass, queasy acid house, and aleatory industrial, plus a surprisingly faithful cover of Joy Division’s “Love Will Tear Us Apart” suggested that the answer was “Probably not.” More than two decades […]