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Stereogum takes on a serious issue of musician committing suicides: "We continue to lose music heroes to suicide and self-medication, with no real connection between age or genre — Chris Cornell, Chester Bennington, Avicii, Mac Miller, Lil Peep, Scott Hutchison, Keith Flint from the Prodigy, Kim Jong-hyun of K-pop group Shinee, Allman Bros. Band drummer […]

Brits in Hot Weather is PopMatters' guide to some of best new British music around at the moment, and in the latest edition of their segment they chose five songs - soulful house with a UK garage twist in the form of Quiet Man x Joy Anonymous, stuttering funk from Skinny Pelembe, downtempo synthpop from […]

Cranberries singer Dolores O’Riordan died last year, in the middle of making of band's new album, leaving all her taped vocals on a disc drive. 'In The End' is out now, and Consequence of Sound says it's a "lovely final statement, one that honors their shared legacy as unlikely alternative rock giants". The Skinny calls […]

Country singer Garth Brooks has called for more gender diversity in the genre, saying his wife, country singer Trisha Yearwood, "works a thousand times harder than me to get a tenth as much as I do out of this business", BBC reports. Female country singers have seen a decline in airplay over the past two […]

Mark E. Smith died in 2018, and the remaining members of The Fall - Dave Spurr, Keiron Melling and Pete Greenway, have continued where they left off with Imperial Wax, with new frontman Sam Curran. "We think about him [Smith] all the time but instead of being down about it it’s more positive, talking about […]

"Ghostly, experimental jazz that sets a new standard for music of its kind. A deeply tasteful and meditative recording" - PopMatters really likes debut album by Odum, out today. It's a new band consisting of Chicago underground masterminds Eric Block (Veloce) and Bruce Lamont (Yakuza, Corrections House), and Sonic Youth drummer Steve Shelley added drums […]

Tinder has launched a new feature Festival Mode, which allows users to add participating festivals to their Tinder profiles, and that allows them to view and match with other Tinder users who have marked themselves as attending. The Tinder Festival Mode will be in use for 12 festivals both in the U.S. and the U.K. […]

Pop songs are the most popular choice at British funerals, and traditional hymns have been completely squeezed out. Frank Sinatra’s 'My Way' is No. 1 at the funeral chart, Ed Sheeran’s 'Supermarket Flower' is a new entry to the list, and Monty Python's 'Always Look at the Bright Side of Life' closes the Top 10 […]

A fan-made memorial was created at the site where Nipsey Hussle was gunned down in Los Angeles in front of his Marathon Clothing store, but location has become chaotic because of a high number of people attempting to make money off the grieving public, TMZ reports. There were people selling bootleg t-shirts with Nipsey's image, […]

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