Lauren Boisvert lives in Nashville, TN, where she also writes about music on the blog Lauren is Listening. She is in the top 0.001% of Arctic Monkeys listeners, and wants to remind everyone that Chumbawamba is and always will be anarcho-punk.
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Photo by Shirlaine Forrest/WireImage 2026 Music Photography Awards Finalists Prove There’s Nothing Quite Like a Concert Experience
The finalists for the 2026 Music Photography Awards have been chosen, representing some of the best concert imagery happening right now.
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Photo by Leon Bennett/Getty Images for Paramount+ ‘South Park’ Creators ‘Still Believe’ in Kendrick Lamar Collaboration Despite Years-Long Delay
Trey Parker and Matt Stone acknowledged the years-long delay of their latest film, apologizing to fans and collaborator Kendrick Lamar.
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Photo by Steph Chambers/Getty Images Fans Enraged After NFL Broadcast Skipped Soundgarden Halftime Show During Seattle Game
Soundgarden fans are peeved after NBC failed to broadcast the band’s halftime performance during the Seahawks game, but there might be a good explanation for that.
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Photo by Maddie Meyer/Getty Images 4 Entry-Level Songs to Put On If You Need a Drastic Party Vibe Shift
If the party playlist has gone stale, you’re going to need a palate cleanser to get the energy up again.
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Photo by Omer Taha Cetin/Anadolu via Getty Images Suno Is Now (Legally) Training AI on Licensed Music After First Lawsuit Settlement With Major Label
Warner Music Group’s partnership with Suno is bearing fruit, allegedly, as the AI company is now legally allowed to train on licensed music.
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Photo by Daniel Knighton/Getty Images Longtime Rock Band Forced to Change Social Media Handles so Meta Can Launch Identically-Named AI
Meta took Muse the band’s social media handles away because its AI product wanted them and little Muse AI always gets what it wants, isn’t that right?
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Photo by Michael Putland/Getty Images Dolly Parton Revisited an Old Hit for This 1980s Icon’s Posthumous Release, and Now It’s a Memorial to Them Both
As Dolly Parton’s death comes four years after Olivia Newton-John’s, their final “Jolene” duet serves as a beautiful memorial to them both.
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Photo by Lionel FLUSIN/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images 3 Albums That Will Have You Drifting Off to Peaceful Sleep Before the Final Track
These three albums might help you drift off into an easy, restful sleep, but we’re not responsible for any weird dreams as a result.
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Photo by Joshua Applegate/WireImage 3 Dark, Chilling Albums That Benefit From Nighttime Listening
These albums are great in the daytime, but to experience them on a transcendent level requires darkness outside and total immersion.
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Photo by Bloomberg/Bloomberg via Getty Images 3 Signs You’re Nostalgia Listening Instead of Discovering New Music
Hi, 911? The person reading this has been listening to the same three albums from 2005 on repeat for six months, can we get an ambulance? Yes, I’ll hold.
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Photo by Frederic J. BROWN / AFP via Getty Images Family of Celeste Rivas Hernandez Calls for D4vd to Face the Death Penalty for the 14-Year-Old’s Murder
The family of murdered teenager Celeste Rivas Hernandez is seeking the death penalty for singer D4vd as the high-profile case reaches the one-year mark.
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Photo by ARNAUD FINISTRE / AFP via Getty Images From Poppin’ Tags to Public Protests: How Macklemore’s Activism Evolved and What He’s Doing Today
Macklemore started out poppin’ tags, but quickly became one of the more surprising activists publicly calling for a free Palestine.