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Spotify's annual end-of-the-year campaign that rounds up your listening habits is here. Here's how to access it in the app.

Kate Bush's "Running Up That Hill" has seen a massive resurgence in popularity. The song is featured in Stranger Things 4 and serves as a ward against evil terrorizing Hawkins this time around. "Running Up That Hill" is currently the second most-streamed song on Spotify, raking in over 7 million streams a day. Re...

In the age of accessibility, where you now can learn how to produce your own tracks from YouTube tutorials, young women in music are taking their careers back into their own hands. Fading are the tedious mind games from an industry resilient in its sexist ways; no stooping to the “female-fronted” trope to sell yourself or groveling for the same opportunities handed to men. While grou...

Japanese Breakfast have shared a cover of Bon Iver's “Skinny Love.” They also released a re-recording of “Be Sweet.” The tracks dropped as Spotify Singles ahead of the 2022 Grammy Awards. Read more: Japanese Breakfast perform “Slide Tackle” on The Late Late Show—watch The Spotify series features each Best New Artist nominee reimaging one of their own songs. They also record a cover in tribute to a

FINNEAS has released two special Spotify Singles in celebration of his Best New Artist Grammy nomination. For Side A, FINNEAS has reimagined “Medieval” from his latest album, Optimist. Side B is a cover of Bon Iver's “Flume.” Read more: FIN... Read More ...

In celebration of International Women's Day, Ethel Cain has shared a cover of Britney Spears' “Everytime.” Spotify also named Cain as their March EQUAL Ambassador. She is the first trans person to hold this title. Read more: Ethel Cain describes her music as a dream-pop worship service Cain's cover of “Everytime” is a part of the EQUAL Presents: Spotify Singles X Created by Women series. Spotify l

Charlotte Sands is releasing her new single “Lost” on Friday, March 4. Alternative Press is giving you a first listen of the track. Ahead of the release, we connected with Sands, who previewed the new song for us. She also spoke broadly about her career. “Lost” is ...

Weezer's Rivers Cuomo has announced the unofficial release dates for four upcoming SZNS albums on Twitter. According to Cuomo, the albums will all drop at the beginning of each season during 2022. Read more: girl in red, Laura Jane Grace, more team up for RSD release ‘Portraits Of Her’ Cuomo added the caveat the dates were “not confirmed with any record company or manager.” If things do... Read Mo

Weezer's Rivers Cuomo has created his own version of Spotify to house his musical material. The app is called Weezify, and it hosts close to 3,500 demos made by the musician between 1975-2017. Read more: 14 artists influenced by Nirvana, from Kid Cudi to the Pretty Reckless It took Cuomo almost all of 2021 to create the app...

This is the new age of alternative pop. Charging at the frontline, eyeball tentacles and all, is Californian pop-rap sensation Ashnikko. Over the span of 18 months Ashnikko, aka Ashton Nicole Casey, reached TikTok virality with their track “STUPID.” Tho...

Following his cover of blink-182’s “Happy Holidays, You Bastard,” rising star jxdn has shared a deluxe version of his debut album Tell Me About Tomorrow. This version includes three new songs, “CRACK MY SKULL,” “DEAD OR ALIVE” and “CHRISTMAS SUCKS.” Read more: Jxdn revisits blink-182’s seasona... Read More ...

Beloved annual music retrospective Spotify Wrapped is here. Each year, Spotify offers users a chance to revisit their favorite songs and most embarrassing guilty pleasures, pulling together your most-played songs, artists and podcasts. This year’s Wrapped goes even further. Wrap...

Japanese Breakfast have released their new EP, Live At Electric Lady, available exclusively on Spotify. The EP, which features a string section, includes newly recorded live versions of “Be Sweet,” “Savage Good Boy,” “Tactics” and “Kokomo, IN.” Read more: 14 modern artists who are c... Read More ...

Joyce Manor are celebrating. This year marks a decade since the California band’s beloved self-titled debut that set the tone for the early 2010’s emo revival movement that’s very much still going on today. It can even be said that Prince Daddy & The Hyena, the first opener for Joyce Manor’s SummerStage in Central Park show, is a result of that special era. This concert is an ode to ... Read M

Music legend Patti Smith makes her return to streaming service Veeps with Live At Electric Lady. The livestream event airs Sept. 9 at 9 p.m. ET. Live At Electric Lady documents Smith’s time working at New York’s storied Electric Lady Studios. In July, t...

Frances Forever, otherwise known as singer-songwriter Frances Garrett, has perfected their sound on paranoia party. Garrett guides listeners to the peak of their emotions, balancing melody and melancholy without pushing anyone over the edge...

Poppy has announced Flux, her fourth studio album and the follow-up to her 2020 record, I Disagree. The announcement comes alongside a psychedelic music video for the record’s title track created by Australian designer and visual artist Pip and Pop. The ...

MxPx have released their latest single “Say Yes” featuring Kalie Wolfe of RIVALS. The new track is available now for streaming on Spotify and other DSPs. Ahead of the release, both MxPx’s Mike Herrera and Wolfe issued special messages to Alternative Press readers, inviting them to check out the new track. Herrera expresse...

There are layers to Ash Gutierrez. To an unsuspecting listener, just casually shuffling through all of the material the 16-year-old hyperpop prodigy released in the last year about slamming his head against a wall and putting his phone on “do not disturb,” it would be close to impossible to look at him as a happy dude.  Yet ev...

The Grammy-winning producer FINNEAS has been named the No. 1 songwriter on Spotify in 2020. The algorithm for judging the top songwriters had been created by music rights data service blòkur, determined by a variety of factors. Read more: Badflower share new music video and announce sophomore album The first factor depends on popularity and is based on the number of days each song spent on the top