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1. SHIVER ME TIMBERS

   Pirate metal has been around since the mid 1980s — I know, we just heard about it — and it’s what you’d expect it to be: a subgenre of metal defined by nautical influences, maritime-themed lyrics, and musicians wearing pirate costumes.  This style blends metal subgenres with traditional sea shanties, accordions — accordions are rare […]

2. Charli xcx’s ‘Music, Fashion, Film’ Coming In July

   She'll presumably show off some new rock moves during a handful of summer festival appearances.

3. M.I.A Sues Kid Cudi For $3M After Tour Firing

   Weeks after being fired from Kid Cudi's Rebel Ragers Tour, M.I.A. has fired back with a lawsuit seeking more than $2.8 million in damages.

4. Best Albums of 2026 (So far)

   So many great albums this year, such a tough list to compile. The result is a globe-trotting cornucopia of rock, alternative, pop, alt-country, jazz, and even classical, from established music veterans to a new generation of artists who are challenging the boundaries of genre in the best of ways.  Here are our favorites so far, […]

5. Patton Oswalt Wants to Make You Laugh, Then Make You Think, Then Maybe Direct a Movie 

   Patton Oswalt is a chronicler of the topical and deeply personal. Whether he’s agitated or playful, his comedy has long grappled with the frustrations of real life at ground-level and the larger uncertainties of this volatile political moment.  It has taken him through grim territory but also intimate moments of uplift. As he once pondered […]

6. David Torn Rips It Up and Starts Again 

   Did David Torn steal Lou Reed’s band? Probably not—the members of Torn’s early 1980s fusion ensemble Everyman Band, who released two albums on the storied ECM label, have all played with the Rock ‘n’ Roll Animal during in the late ’70s, but Reed had a notoriously mercurial relationship to personnel. Still, a budding jazz guitarist […]

7. Brother Wallace Is on a Mission to Spread ‘Electric Love’

   Brother Wallace is proof that there are no accidents in life. Just fate, destiny, and divine plans. It’s the only way to explain how the small-town gospel singer and music teacher from West Point, Georgia, was discovered by British band the Heavy, signed to ATO Records, and wound up on tour with St. Paul and […]

8. THE SECRET SONGWRITER

   A once-mythical Tennessean has now been confirmed to have written many of early country’s biggest hits and evergreens, songs credited to other artists and songwriters.  His name is Arthur Q. Smith — “Q” for short. His story involves the most important names in country music history, and, thanks to southern music historians Wayne Bledsoe and […]

9. Bret Michaels, Martina McBride Continue Freedom 250 Exodus

   Freedom 250’s Great American State Fair lineup is shrinking faster than a campaign promise after Election Day.

10. Tom Morello Rocks With 15-Year-Old Son, Serj Tankian

    The track features Tankian alongside Morello’s 15-year-old son Roman, whose rapidly emerging guitar chops are becoming a recurring part of his father’s musical orbit.