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Tuesday marked the 10th anniversary of The Universe Smiles On You, the debut album from the chilled-out, mostly instrumental Texan soul-funk trio Khruangbin. Since that album’s release, Khruangbin have racked up tons of streams and played high up on the bill at vast numbers of music festivals. Last year, they got a Grammy nomination for Best New Artist and performed on the telecast. Today, Khruangbin mark the anniversary of that first LP with the surprise release of The Universe Smiles Upon You ii, a re-recorded version of the original. View the full article

Shudder To Think are in the midst of their first tour in 17 years, and they teased new music. Now the DC art-rock crew is sharing “Thirst Walk” and “Playback,” their first new songs in 27 years. View the full article

AI musicians are here. They are among us. In a recent article, Billboard called attention to a number of AI artists across a bunch of different genres who have appeared on various different niche Billboard charts — inhuman creations with names like ChildPets Galore, Unbound Music, Enlly Blue. Breaking Rust, and BOI WHAT. (A lot of them seem to operate in the contemporary Christian space, which is sort of interesting when you consider that these things are inherently godless just by virtue of their existence.) The most prominent of those artists is the fake R&B singer Xania Monet, who appears to be the first AI-generated artist to appear on any Billboard airplay chart. Yesterday, Xania Monet’s creator appeared on CBS This Morning to discuss her enterprise. View the full article

The festival lineup also includes Enslaved, Borknagar, Yob, Sigh, Wayfarer and more The post Fire In The Mountains 2026 Announces 16 HORSEPOWER Exclusive US Reunion Performance appeared first on Metal Injection. View the full article

🎸 Introducing: The Rock Rewind ShowYour weekly time machine for the loud, the legendary, and the lost. Hey rockers! We’re cranking the dial back to the golden age of guitar with the brand-new Rock Rewind Show, now streaming on demand right here on Solano Rock & Talk Radio. Hosted by our resident sonic historian, this 2-hour program rewinds the decades to bring you deep cuts, live takes, anthems, and album gems that shaped rock as we know it — all curated, remastered, and delivered with stories from behind the music. 💥 What to expect: Full 2-hour episodes or hour-by-hour listening options Themed sets and rare classics you won’t hear anywhere else Real stories, real riffs, and a lot of attitude 🕰️ When & Where: Catch new episodes every week on the Rock Rewind Show page — right here on the community or at 👉 solanorockandtalkradio.com/shows/rockrewind/ 🎧 Listen On Demand: We’ve added a custom Rock Rewind player where you can pick any episode and play it in full or by hour. Whether you’re working, cruising, or hanging in the garage — it’s the perfect soundtrack. 📻 For Station Partners: The show is now available for weekly syndication — same format and delivery as the Kick A$$ Rock Show. Program directors can request details via our Syndication Options page. Let’s get nostalgic. Turn it up, let it roll, and rewind to the sound that still kicks. 🔥 Rock on, Rewinders!

Radiohead are in the midst of playing their first shows since 2018. The band kicked off their reunion tour yesterday at Madrid’s Movistar Arena, and they performed at the same venue tonight and brought out some deep-cuts and tour debuts. View the full article

We last heard from Kiwi Jr. in 2022 with their third studio album Chopper. The Canadian indie rockers are returning today with the hooky tune “Hard Drive, Ontario.” View the full article

More Morrissey cancellations abound. The former Smiths frontman cancelled two Mexico shows last-minute last week due to “extreme exhaustion,” and now the rest of his shows for the month are no longer happening. View the full article

Last year, Euphoria Again — the project of Knifeplay’s John Klein — released the album Waiting On Time To Fly. Now the band is announcing a collaborative album called Destination Heaven with the Harrisburg, VA alt-country group Dogwood Tales. View the full article

We’re always down for a new tune from Charlotte Day Wilson, one of Canada’s foremost purveyors of indie-leaning pop and R&B. Today the track in question is “Selfish,” a crystalline, propulsive new single dotted with a wordless melody that reminds me of “Tom’s Diner.” It follows the Ouri collab “Behave !” from the summer. Here’s what Wilson has to say about it: View the full article

Former Guns N’ Roses manager Alan Niven has taken his dispute with the band to court and, at the same time, asked a judge to bless the publication of his […] The post Former GUNS N' ROSES Manager Is Suing The Band For Allegedly Blocking His Autobiography appeared first on Metal Injection. View the full article

LA’s own Lukas Frank, aka Storefront Church, is playing a one-off London gig next Monday, Nov. 10 at St. Pancras Church in Kings X. To help get the word out, Frank has released his first new recording since last year’s Ink & Oil, a cover of goth pioneers the Sisters Of Mercy’s “Lucretia, My Reflection.” Per Frank, “When picking a song to cover it helps if you choose an absolute masterpiece. That way you can’t possibly fuck it up.” Avowed Storefront Church fans like Florence Welch won’t want to skip this, so listen below along with the original. View the full article

Legendary Black Sabbath guitarist, Tony Iommi, has stepped onto a different kind of stage: the cancer centre at Birmingham’s Heartlands Hospital. Diagnosed with lymphoma, precisely at that hospital more than […] The post BLACK SABBATH’s TONY IOMMI Will Raffle One Of His Gibson Guitars To Support Cancer Centre Fundraising appeared first on Metal Injection. View the full article

Seven years ago, the great singer-songeriter Aimee Mann told the Los Angeles Review Of Books that she was working on songs for a couple of stage musicals. One of them was an adaptation of Girl, Interrupted, Susanna Kaysen’s 1993 memoir about her time at a psychiatric hospital in the ’60s. Girl, Interrupted was already adapted into a 1999 James Mangold film with Winona Ryder, and Angelina Jolie won an Oscar for her role in it. The stage adaptation took longer than that. View the full article

We weren’t sure if Cindy Lee would keep going. Pat Flegel’s musical project and drag persona had an off-the-grid underground smash with last year’s double album Diamond Jubilee, then abruptly cut short the tour supporting the album. When the Cindy Lee catalog went Bandcamp-exclusive this year, with W.25TH launching pre-orders for vinyl reissues, it did not necessarily confirm the project was still a going concern. Then Flegel announced a brief run of fall shows, which began Tuesday night at Chicago’s Thalia Hall. View the full article

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Death Grips is online and in the studio. Today, the group’s Zach Hill and Stefan “MC Ride” Burnett shared a carousel of in-studio photos on Instagram with the caption: “The writing and recording of our next album is underway. We’re looking forward to the new Death Grips record.” So there you have it. View the full article

Tobias Francis, leader of the Chicago-via-Portland post-punk band Soft Kill, has reportedly been convicted of domestic abuse. Soft Kill’s Instagram page posted Francis’ mugshot today, along with this caption: “Tobias Channing Francis was convicted this morning of domestic battery.” The website for the Cook County Sheriff’s Department confirms that Francis is in custody and that he had a court date set for today. View the full article

"He was the kind of hub that brought people together because of his passion." The post MIKAEL STANNE Remembers AT THE GATES' TOMAS LINDBERG: "He Was A Gentle, Soft-Spoken Guy, But On Stage He Was An Absolute Beast" appeared first on Metal Injection. View the full article

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Paula Kelley is best known as one of the original core members of Drop Nineteens, performing vocals and guitar on their 1992 shoegaze bible Delaware. Not long after that album was released, however, she left the band in order to pursue other projects, eventually releasing the solo albums Nothing/Everything (2001) and The Trouble With Success Or How You Fit Into The World (2003). Twenty years later, Kelley would rejoin Drop Nineteens for their comeback album Hard Light, and now she’s gearing up to release her first solo album in over two decades. Blinking As The Starlight Burns Out arrives in March, and its lead single “Party Line” is out now. View the full article