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One of Cuba’s sole heavy metal bands, Zeus, grapples with shifting cultural tides in the new teaser for the upcoming documentary, Los Ultimos Frikis. Zeus formed in Havana during the Eighties, when rock music was considered a capitalist threat and was effectively illegal inside Cuba. It was common for “frikis” …

UPDATE:Harry Styles will play a one-night only show at The Forum in Los Angeles on the same day Fine Line is released. Pre-sale tickets will be available on November 7th. Harry Styles has announced a title and release date for his sophomore album: Fine Line, out December 13th. The 25-year-old …

Dev Hynes pays tribute to Beck‘s ever-shifting imagery with his reverent video for the latter’s new song “Uneventful Days.” The Blood Orange songwriter fills the hazy clip — which also includes intro “Hyperlife” — with subtle winks to Beck’s visuals and overall aesthetic: In one scene, a man stares at …

Matt Berninger, frontman of the National, has announced plans to release his debut solo album Serpentine Prison. The musician revealed the news via Instagram, also confirming that the songs were produced and arranged by Booker T. Jones. “More about it soon but basically I’m the luckiest man in the universe …

Nasty Cherry are romancing your dad on the cheeky, catchy new song “Music With Your Dad.” This is the band’s fourth official song and will appear on their upcoming debut EP. Produced by Justin Raisen (Sky Ferreira, Angel Olsen), “Music With Your Dad” has the quartet detailing their love affair …

The K-Pop group SuperMbeat out the R&B singer Summer Walker to earn the top album on the latest RS 200. SuperM contains members of the already-popular groups EXO, SHINee, NCT 127, and WayV. The new ensemble’s Number One debut with The 1st Mini Album was the result of a massive …

Schadenfreude may be universal, but the keen, delightful unease of watching HBO‘s Succession — whose second season wraps this Sunday evening — is particularly amplified for anyone who works in media, the industry of total chaos over which the show’s magnificently out-of-touch plutocrats preside. In response to deep obsession and/or …

The well-coiffed guys from the new K-pop supergroup, SuperM, are sitting around a conference room at the Capitol Records building in Los Angeles, and feeling like they may have left something on the table. Two days earlier, the seven-piece unit — put together using members from four established K-pop boy …

FKA Twigs taps into the suburban experience in her new video for “Home with You,” off of her upcoming album Magdalene, out October 25th. It depicts a hazy club scene that transforms into a journey back to the English countryside. “‘Home with You’ is a record that I’ve written from …

Kim Shattuck, the singer and guitarist who co-founded and led the SoCal punk band the Muffs alongside contributions to Pixies and NOFX, died Wednesday at the age of 56. A rep for Shattuck’s band the Coolies confirmed her death to Rolling Stone. The cause was amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). “We …