Tom Breihan

We can't keep up. We try, but we can't. The permanently weary Detroit underground rap fixture Boldy James makes so much music, and it's all worth hearing, but the neverending deluge can be hard to track.

Usually, people cover one song when they drop by the BBC Live Lounge. But Swedish cult-pop overlord Robyn can do more things than most people, so she covered two songs at the same time. Robyn is out promoting her 2026 album right now, and she has released a ton of remixes since the album dropped. In the Live Lounge, she had the brilliant idea to fuse Tinashe's "Popstar" with the Teddybears' "Punkrocker."

Right now, we're in the midst of a whole generation of young hardcore bands resurrecting the epic metalcore sound of the late '90s and early '00s, and Crowquill, from Leeds, are part of it. Crowquill got together in 2024, and they found a style that evokes the jagged, feral grandeur of

Over the past few months, there's been a great deal of speculation about why longtime rhythm guitarist Nick Valensi decided to take a " temporary break " from the Strokes.

Boston hardcore band Haywire became underground heroes by playing endless numbers of wild live shows. They maintain an insanely busy touring schedule, and they've also got a habit of playing guerrilla-style sets in places where bands don't usually play, or jumping on smaller regional shows at the last minute. But when Haywire tried to play a pop-up set in the middle of Times Square, the NYPD wasn't having it.

On Sunday, the left-wing streamer and activist Hasan Piker tweeted the above photo of himself with "the legend damon albarn," at a Los Angeles Gorillaz show. Apparently, some Gorillaz fans were surprised and/or upset at the connection. (The Democratic Party has invested tons of resources into depicting the pro-Palestine Piker as a kind of demonic antisemitic figure.) As it turns out, though, Albarn first met Piker almost two years ago, when he and his daughter Missy attended a Piker lecture in Oxford.

IShowSpeed is a 21-year-old Cincinnati native who happens to be the most famous streamer on the planet. Millions of followers tune in to watch him get mobbed by fans across the planet while doing acrobatic flips and shouting hyped-up inspirational speeches. He also makes music sometimes, and he has one gold record, the 2026 single…

The veteran German dance producer Boys Noize recently spent a long time on the road with Nine Inch Nails, opening their shows and collaborating with them onstage, reworking some of their music to make it even clubbier than it already was. That experience led to the release of the fucking awesome collaborative album

The Swedish alt-pop artist Waterbaby released her full-length debut Memory Be A Blade on Sub Pop earlier this year, and she’s about to head out on a brief European tour. Today, she shares “Creek,” a lush two-minute folk song with a florid acoustic guitar and a dash of psychedelic flute. Waterbaby co-wrote and recorded the…