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The National has shared a single featuring Phoebe Bridgers, "Your Mind Is Not Your Friend," off their upcoming album First Two Pages of Frankenstein. Listen to the collaboration now.

We're rounding up the best newly announced tours. Tours from the National, Snail Mail, Yaeji, and festivals like Governors Ball, are the most exciting live music events coming soon.

Boston Calling has announced its 2023 lineup. Foo Fighters, Paramore, Alanis Morissette, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Queens of the Stone Age, and more will headline the event this May.

Taylor Swift’s affinity for emo music and culture is beyond any doubt. In preparation for her new album Midnights, here are her most emo songs of all time.

Charlie Hickey's music is rooted in storytelling. Chronicling the unpredictability of life through his lyricism, the Pasadena-based artist tends to look toward the past to some of the great folk singers while simultaneously taking inspiration from many of today’s musicians. Simi...

Phoebe Bridgers has released a cover of Tom Waits’ “Day After Tomorrow.” The new track continues her annual tradition of dropping appropriately themed music just in time for Christmas. The new song features an all-star cast to help Bridgers in her reimagining of Waits' song. Mumford & Sons' ...

It's truly mind-blowing to believe that 2001 was really 20 years ago. The beginning of the 2000s was a strange time. We had the beginning of Myspace, the golden age of pop punk and plenty of questionable fashion choices. Read more: 10 vocalists who brought a unique sound to the 2000s scene It's also crazy to think about all the albums from 2001 being two decades old already...

Sharon Van Etten is celebrating the 10th anniversary of her second studio LP Epic with the special reissue epic Ten. For the record, Van Etten teamed up with a slew of artists to reimagine the original album’s songs including Fiona Apple who has reworked “Love More.” On the...

Following her big night at the Grammys, Brittany Howard debuted a soulful performance of her powerful song "Short And Sweet" on Jimmy Kimmel Live!. "Short And Sweet" is off of her new solo album Jaime which earned her five Grammy nominations this year...

Taylor Swift just shocked the music world again in 2020, releasing her second surprise album of the year, evermore, the sister record to folklore, which she dropped earlier this year.  Both records take on a more alternative and indie-rock sound, with plenty of surprising new collabs.  R...

Taylor Swift is truly here to save 2020. It's been less than five months since her surprise album folklore made its debut and quickly topped the charts. Now, Swift has confirmed that her surprise ninth studio album evermore is arriving at midnight eastern time on Thursday, Dec...

Touché Amoré aren’t a band known for delicacy. Despite the frequent counterpoint coupling of frontman Jeremy Bolm’s thumbtack-gargling vocals with lavish, delay-heavy guitar atmosphere, they’re a band on the attack. They cut their teeth on songs ...

Given the overnight success of The Naked Brothers Band: The Movie and the subsequent Nickelodeon spinoff series that debuted in 2007, it’s hardly a surprise that the Wolff brothers’ fictional kid group has catapulted them toward a full-fledged alternative-rock career. Working un...

Taylor Swift recently surprise-dropped folklore, her eighth album, which is completely different from anything she’s ever released.  Swift, who’s known for country songs and pop hits, went alternative this time with the album she recorded while stuck at home during the coronavirus pandemic.  Read more: Th... Read More ...

On July 24, Taylor Swift released her surprise eighth studio album folklore. As soon as she debuted the album's cover, however, some began to note the similarity the artwork has to cover art found in metal music. Now, Emperor legend Ihsahn is comparing the folklore cover to the artwork for his single "Stridig...

It looks like Taylor Swift's discography now has three different genre classifications. Since its surprise release on July 24, her eighth studio album folklore has earned an alternative classification. The alternative classification marks the first release from Swift to fall under this genre...

On Thursday, the Taylor Swift fandom was left SHOOK after her eighth studio album folklore was announced. Along with its announcement, Swift unveiled the LP's collaborations, the tracklisting and the cover art. Of course, many people on the internet have their own opinions on folklore's album artwork...

Surprise, Taylor Swift is dropping her eighth studio album Folklore on July 24. Not only are there 16 tracks on the standard edition of the LP, but Folklore also features loads of collaborations. Read more: Demi Lovato gets engaged to actor Max Ehrich with a beach proposal Swift's previous studio album Lover was released just last year...

There are more than a few artists who’ve released videos throughout their career without ever working with a director who's a woman. It’s an unfortunate truth, especially when you consider the iconic and era-defining videos that directors such as Hannah Lux Davis, Roxana Baldovin, Melina Matsoukas and more are creating with artists who are actively diversifying their collaborative pool. Here’s...

Photographer: Svetlana Joukova AP photographer Svetlana Joukova brings you exclusive shots of Rise Against, TV On The Radio, Touché Amoré, the National, the Expendables, Manchester Orchestra, 3OH!3 and more from Riot Fest Denver day three. ...