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like, like every other track is trying to sound like it’s from the 80s or 90s and half the time im like… were you even alive then?? it’s weird when the production is so polished it feels fake-retro. but then again i lowkey love some of those synthwave-y tracks so im part of the problem. whats worse is when theyre clearly pandering but idk man i think im just salty bc some of these artists are younger than the trends theyre copying. still, if it slaps it slaps. whats a song that actually does the throwback thing well without feeling forced?

It’s been four years since Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul released their fantastic debut album Topical Dancer and we’re hoping to get the follow-up this year. When we talked to Soulwax’s Steph & Dave Dewaele — who co-produced and co-wrote the first one — in October 2025, they said they were 60% done with it. Now Charlotte and Bolis have announced their first shows in a while.

The first of those is what appears to be a one-off at Brooklyn’s Baby’s All Right on September 18. Tickets for that go on sale Friday June 12 at 10 AM.

They’re also playing Pitchfork Paris in November alongside Iceage, Lido Pimienta, Robber Robber, Bassvictim, and more.

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Thao & The Get Down Stay Down officially called it quits in 2021, but THAO is now back and back on Kill Rock Stars, the label who released her first two albums. Produced by Tune-Yards’ Merrill Garbus, “Fossils” is slinky funk, in an indie rock kind of way, with a very positive message in the face of insane times. It’s her first new music in six years.

“Fossils is both a red-flag warning and an encouragement,” THAO says. “I’m saying I can see it all, I can zoom out and up and see how I and we will have reached the end, frozen in these protective stances. The danger of underliving our lives is real, is in every isolationist choice we make. However, we can continually decide to be different. It takes enormous amounts of work to metabolize fear instead of being based in it. It is so easy to slip into the grooves of self protection.”

Watch the video for “Fossils” below.

THAO will be on tour with Lord Huron starting this weekend and all dates are listed below.


THAO – 2026 TOUR DATES
6/13: Decatur, GA @ Eddie’s Attic
6/14: Asheville, NC @ ExploreAsheville.com Arena #
6/16: Charleston, NC @ Credit One Stadium #
6/18: Wilmington, NC @ Live Oak Bank Pavilion #
6/19: Richmond, VA @ Virginia Credit Union LIVE! At Richmond Raceway #
6/21: Greenfield, MA @ Green River Festival
6/23: Bangor, ME @ Maine Savings Amphitheater #
6/24: Pawtucket, RI @ The Met
6/25: New Haven, CT @ Westville Music Bowl #
6/26: Atlantic City, NJ @ Ovation Hall at Ocean City Casino Resort #

# = supporting Lord Huron

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Helado Tropical, aka the duo of Helado Negro and Reyna Tropical, have announced a fall tour in support of their upcoming self-titled debut album. It begins in Washington, DC on October 23 and wraps November 26 in Mexico City. They also have dates this month with CA7RIEL & Paco Amoroso as well as shows in August. All dates are listed below.

The NYC stop is at Knockdown Center on October 25 and tickets for all fall shows go on sale Friday, June 12 at 10 AM local time.

Helado Tropial is out July 17 via Psychic Hotline and you can check out “Tocando” and “Sensación” from it below.


Helado Tropical – 2026 Tour Dates:
06/23 Toronto, ON – History *
06/24 Detroit, MI – The Fillmore *
06/26 Montreal, QC – MTELUS *
06/27 Boston, MA – MGM Music Hall at Fenway *
08/12 San Diego, CA – Epstein Family Amphitheater
08/13 Los Angeles, CA – The Ford
08/15 San Francisco, CA – Yerba Buena Gardens Festival
08/18 Seattle, WA – Neptune Theatre
08/19 Portland, OR – Revolution Hall
08/22 Mill River, NC – Hazy Hideaway Festival
09/10 Chicago, IL – Plantasia
10/23 Washington, D.C. – Black Cat
10/25 Queens, NY – Knockdown Center
11/08 Phoenix, AZ – Crescent Ballroom
11/10 Denver, CO – Cervantes’ Masterpiece Ballroom
11/12 Dallas, TX – The Echo Lounge & Music Hall
11/13 Austin, TX – Mohawk
11/14 McAllen, TX – The Gremlin
11/16 Houston, TX – Warehouse Live Midtown
11/18 Atlanta, GA – The Loft
11/20 Orlando, FL – The Plaza Live
11/21 Miami, FL – ZeyZey Miami
11/26 Mexico City, Mexico – Lunario

* with CA7RIEL & Paco Amoroso

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Slow Pulp have announced their third album, Melodie, which will be out September 18 via ANTI-. They made it with producer Elliott Kozel (Rosalía, Björk, SZA, Eartheater). “Emily [Massey] and I were reconnecting with how we wrote together when we first met,” Henry Stoehr says of the album’s process.

The first single is the anthemic “Better Man.” Stoehr says: “In my mid 20s, I entered a phase in my life that felt really stable. I had felt so turbulent emotionally up until that point and I desperately wanted to feel that I deserved to experience that. Naively, I thought that I could just extinguish that kid that fucked up all the time and couldn’t control himself. This song is me both letting go of control but taking control of myself in a new way, and accepting myself for who I am, and hoping that can be accepted by everyone else.” Watch the video below.

Slow Pulp will be on tour this fall with Snuggle, Her New Knife, Goon, Ivy, Graham Hunt, and Current Union TM opening along the way. The NYC show is at Brooklyn Paramount on November 13 with Her New Knife and Ivy. All dates are listed below.




Melodie:
1. Yellow and Green
2. These Days
3. Better Man
4. Melodie
5. Red Car
6. Not for Nothing
7. Entertainer
8. Like Me
9. Spill
10. Up to You
11. Slip Away

Slow Pulp – 2026 Tour Dates
Fri. Oct. 16 – St. Louis, MO @ Delmar Hall %
Sat. Oct. 17 – Omaha, NE @ Slowdown %
Mon. Oct. 19 – Denver, CO @ Ogden Theatre ∞
Wed. Oct. 21 – Salt Lake City, UT @ The Grand at The Complex ∞
Fri. Oct. 23 – Portland, OR @ Revolution Hall ∞
Sat. Oct. 24 – Seattle, WA @ The Showbox ∞
Tue. Oct. 27 – San Francisco, CA @ The Fillmore ∞
Thu. Oct. 29 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Wiltern ∞ !
Fri. Oct. 30 – San Diego, CA @ Quartyard ∞
Sat. Oct. 31 – Phoenix, AZ @ Crescent Ballroom ∞
Tue. Nov. 3 – Dallas, TX @ The Echo Lounge & Music Hall ∞
Wed. Nov. 4 – Austin, TX @ Emo’s ∞
Thu. Nov. 5 – Houston, TX @ White Oak Music Hall Downstairs ∞
Sat. Nov. 7 – Atlanta, GA @ Variety Playhouse ∞
Sun. Nov. 8 – Carrboro, NC @ Cat’s Cradle ∞
Mon. Nov. 9 – Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club $
Thu. Nov. 12 – Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer $
Fri. Nov. 13 – New York, NY @ Brooklyn Paramount $ *
Sat. Nov. 14 – Boston, MA @ Roadrunner $ *
Mon. Nov. 16 – Toronto, ON @ Danforth Music Hall $
Tue. Nov. 17 – Detroit, MI @ Saint Andrew’s Hall $
Thu. Nov. 19 – Chicago, IL @ The Salt Shed $+
Fri. Nov. 20 – Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue $
Sat. Nov. 21 – Madison, WI @ The Sylvee $ #

% = Feller ∞ = Snuggle. $ = Her New Knife. ! = Goon. * = Ivy # = Graham Hunt
+ = Current Union TM

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Open Mike Eagle and Kenny Segal have collaborated on new album DOOMED! which will be out August 14 via Backwoodz. “Each vision is a crashed airplane halfway on the border of dream and nightmare, bitter and sweet, sadness and freedom,” Open Mike Eagle says. “Every one of Kenny’s beats is a chunk of ore from a different comet. I used each one as a canvas to paint my impression of a dead world.”

“In recent years, Kenny made it very clear that he wasn’t trying to keep having one or two beats on my projects; he wanted to build something,” Mike says. “I was able to convince him to let me use a couple beats for Neighborhood Gods Unlimited with the caveat that we would focus on our thing next. Then my relationship fell apart right when we started working, and it was like, ‘Perfect, I have a lot to say about this.’”

The album features contributions from billy woods, Gothic Tropic, and more. The first single from the album is “Unfinished Concrete Initials” featuring Hemlock Ernst…aka Samuel T Herring of Future Islands. Listen to that below.




DOOMED!
Out to Lunch
Streets of Rage: Public Arguments Edition feat. Gothic Tropic
DOOMED!
Unfinished Concrete Initials feat. Hemlock Ernst
Don’t Go Look (Battleworld Focus Prayer)
She Swear I’m Colorblind feat. billy woods
Science Fiction/Fantasy
The Irredeemable Magic Man
he Many Hustles of my Lonely Time Traveling Uncle
Trying to Remember What I Aimed At
Shrödinger’s Green Room (There but Uninvited)
It Happens in Every Universe (interlude)
Sweetheart Jail
Infinity War Spoliers
Watching a Movie Called Freedom By Myself

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Nimrods is a new road trip comedy film about a teenage band who gets the opportunity to to open for Green Day — sort of — and the crazy extremes they go through to get to the show. The film was written and directed by Lee Kirk and Green Day appear in the movie and are producers on the film. Here’s the synopsis:

When Tommy receives a phone call inviting his band to open for Green Day on New Years Eve, he doesn’t realize it’s an elaborate prank by his older brother, Wayne. Desperate to believe his life is about to change, Tommy steals Wayne’s car and begins driving his band from Kansas City to Los Angeles, hell bent on getting there in three days. What follows is a rowdy and uproarious road trip across America, inspired by Green Day’s early days of touring in a van, years before the release of their breakout record Dookie.

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The film stars Mason Thames, Kylr Coffman and Ryan Foust as the young band members and also features cameos by Fred Armisen, Jenna Fischer, Angela Kinsey, Bobby Lee, Jolene, Keen Ruffalo, Ignacio Diaz-Silverio, and Sean Gunn.

Nimrods is out August 14 and you can watch the trailer below.




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Warm Up, MoMA PS1’s long-running, forward-thinking summer event series has just announced its 2026 lineup. This year also celebrates PS1’s 50th anniversary and looks back at the series which launched in 1998 by inviting back a few past performers.

They’re bringing back Lary 7, who played the very first season and Detroit legend Marcellus Pittman who played Warm Up 2013, for the August 7 party. Other performers this year: Carlos Souffront, BAE BAE b2b Crystallmess, BADSISTA, Dopplereffekt, and and an unnamed “Special Guest” at the August 28 finale that also features keiyaA.

MoMA PS1 Warm Up runs Fridays from 4-10 PM in the courtyard. Season passes offer discounted admission.

Check out the full MoMA PS1 Warm Up 2026 lineup below.

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MoMA PS1 WARM UP 2026

July 24
Carlos Souffront, Wackies Showcase with Lloyd “Bullwackie” Barnes & Mark Ernestus, TELESONIQ, and DJ Richard

July 31
BAE BAE b2b Crystallmess, Gabber Eleganza, Cortisa Star, and SCRAAATCH

August 7
BADSISTA, TOCCORORO, Toxe, and nguyendowsXP

August 14
Marcellus Pittman, DJ Anderson do Paraíso, Mabe Fratti, and Lary 7

August 21
Dopplereffekt, RHR, Purelink, and Eev Frances

August 28
Special Guest, De Schuurman, keiyaA, and DJ WORKING CLASS

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Sadly, tonight’s Knicks–Spurs NBA Finals Game 4 is not possibly the final game of the finals — the Spurs bested the Knicks 115 – 111 at Monday’s Game 3 at Madison Square Garden after the Knicks won the first two games in San Antonio — but one thing to definitely look forward to is the halftime show. Wu-Tang Clan are performing.

The New York Post‘s Page Six reports that the Staten Island legends, who will be inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame this fall, will be at MSG while on break from their current Wu-Tang Forever: The Final Chamber farewell tour.

Game 4 happens tonight at Madison Square Garden and tip-off time is 8:30 PM. You can watch via ABC and the ESPN app. Go Knicks!

Cardi B was the halftime performer at Game 3.

Wu-Tang Clan last performed at MSG when they headlined last July.

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The Gaslight Anthem’s Brian Fallon has announced new album Not Bad for New Jersey which will be out physically September 10 and on streaming services the next day. (Preorder the vinyl.) The album was produced by longtime collaborator Butch Walker (Green Day, Taylor Swift) in Nashville, and features contributions from The Killers’ Brandon Flowers, Def Leppard guitarist Phil Collen, guitarist Marc Ribot (Tom Waits, Elvis Costello), Canadian folk singer Donovan Woods, country artist Lori McKenna, and Dr Dog‘s Eric Slick.

“I’ve never been one to resent anybody for having certain advantages in life, and I don’t think there’s anything inherently pure in having to struggle,” says Fallon. “But I do think there’s real value in overcoming the odds stacked against you, because getting to the point of feeling like you’re actually worth something is one of the toughest mountains to climb.”

The album includes “Not Bad for New Jersey” and “Better Before” which were released back in May, and he’s shared new single “Pearls.” “From the beginning I knew I had to fully lean into the passion and lunacy of all these songs I felt inspired by – there wasn’t much room for subtlety,” says Fallon, who cites Bryan Adams’ “Run to You” and The Police’s “Every Breath You Take” as inspirations. “There was so much childlike joy in writing and recording all these songs. The whole album came together so naturally, with a level of creative fulfillment I hadn’t experienced in a very long time.”

Listen to “Pearls,” “Not Bad for New Jersey” and “Better Before” below.

Brian and his solo band The Painkillers play Asbury Park’s Stone Pony this Sunday, June 14, part of a short run with Emily Wolfe, and he’s part of the 2026 Riot Fest lineup. All dates are listed below.




Not Bad for New Jersey
Not Bad for New Jersey
Better Before
Pearls
The Big Sleep (feat. Donovan Woods)
On Good Terms (feat. Lori McKenna)
Nobody Likes You in NYC
Love at the End of the World (feat. Brandon Flowers)
Somewhere You Shouldn’t Be (feat. Phil Collen)
Fading on Me
Walkin’ Through the Garden
Wolf by the River (feat. Marc Ribot)

BRIAN FALLON & THE PAINKILLERS – LIVE 2026

JUNE
14 – Asbury Park, NJ – The Stone Pony * (SOLD OUT)
16 – Nashville, TN – The Basement East *
20 – West Hollywood, CA – Troubadour * (SOLD OUT)
22 – Chicago, IL – Reggies’ Rock Club * (SOLD OUT)

SEPTEMBER
18-20 – Chicago, IL – Riot Fest 2026 †

* w/ Special Guest Emily Wolfe
† Festival Appearance

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