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LUX is here early. Rosalía’s MOTOMAMI followup has dropped a few hours early after she previewed it last week with the sole single “Berghain” with Björk and Yves Tumor. View the full article

Megadeth has begun teasing the second single from their upcoming self-titled farewell release. The track, "I Don’t Care", is set to make its online debut next Friday, November 14, with […] The post MEGADETH Tease New Track "I Don't Care", Second Single From Self-Titled Final Album appeared first on Metal Injection. View the full article

Dream Theater is bringing the video portion of their upcoming live album Quarantième: Live à Paris to the big screen for one night only. AMC Theatres will host a special […] The post DREAM THEATER Partners With AMC Theatres For One Night Only Showing Of Upcoming Live Concert Release appeared first on Metal Injection. View the full article

A few years back I stumbled upon Plague Skater’s Bandcamp profile and greatly enjoyed its self-described “scuzz pop” offerings. The album and EP we posted had me flashing back to late 2000s buzz bands like No Age and Wavves, but shoutier and with more runaway-train intensity. Will Schwester, the New Jersey man behind Plague Skater, has posted all kinds of music to that page more recently under various aliases, and some of it is extremely out-there. But today he’s put out another collection that comes closer to the revved-up lo-fi indie sound he was doing so well on the Plague Skater releases. View the full article

A slab of thrash metal to power up your day The post DEATH ANGEL Shares Animated Video For New Single “Cult Of The Used” appeared first on Metal Injection. View the full article

Silversun Pickups have a new album on the way. Tenterhooks, the follow-up to 2022’s Physical Thrills, arrives in February via the band’s own New Machine Recordings, and lead single “The Wreckage” is out today. View the full article

"Recently, false and deeply hurtful statements have been made about me online. The allegations being spread about me are completely untrue." The post VULVODYNIA’s New Vocalist ZION BITTENBENDER Denies Newly Surfaced Accusations Of Sexual Assault appeared first on Metal Injection. View the full article

Gilson Lavis, the longtime drummer for Squeeze and Jools Holland’s Rhythm And Blues Orchestra, has died. Holland reported the news in a post to his social media accounts today. Lavis passed away at home Wednesday in Lincolnshire. No cause of death has been provided. He was 74. View the full article

The Maryland rapper and producer redveil is just 21 years old, but he’s already released three albums, and it’s about to be four. A few years ago, redveil moved to California and started recording in proper studios, working with session musicians and playing around with keyboards and Rhodes pianos. The result is sankofa, the new album that arrives next month. We’ve already posted two songs, the Smino collab “brown sugar” and the bleary, psychedelic “mini me.” Both of those will be on sankofa, and so will “lone star,” the new song that redveil released today. View the full article

Gorillaz are still more than four months away from the release of new album The Mountain, but the slow drip of advance singles continues today. Following the Sparks collab “The Happy Dictator” and “The Manifesto” with Trueno and a posthumous Proof, they’ve now shared “The God Of Lying,” which teams them with IDLES. View the full article

“The song I sang is by my band. It's my job, my life.” The post MISS WORLD CHILE Semifinalist Stuns Judges By Performing A Song From Her Own Death Metal Band appeared first on Metal Injection. View the full article

Shortly after the release of their 2022 album Forgiveness, the great LA indie duo Girlpool announced that they were breaking up. They headed out on one final tour, and they played their final show at their hometown’s El Rey in October 2022. As far as I know, Girlpool members Avery Tucker and Harmony haven’t performed together since then. Instead, they’ve been making vastly different solo records. Harmony’s full-length debut Gossip came out last year, and she’s had a handful of singles since then. Tucker’s solo album Paw came out last month, and he’ll play a record-release show at LA’s Zebulon tonight. At that show, the world will get to see Girlpool back together again. View the full article

Happening between February and July The post JOURNEY Announces 2026 North American Farewell Tour appeared first on Metal Injection. View the full article

As I understand it, Candy Crush Saga is a phone game where brightly colored pieces of candy fall from the top of the screen and you need to arrange them in a way where big blocks of its will disappear in satisfying, cascading ways. It’s like Tetris or Dr. Mario or whatever. I don’t know what this thing has to do with a Thundercat cover of a Diana Ross disco-pop classic, but that’s what’s happening. View the full article

Now that the Libertines have completed their comeback, Pete Doherty has moved on to reviving Babyshambles, his post-Libertines band. The reunited group is heading out on their first tour in 11 years, which will take them throughout their native UK in November and December, and they kicked things off with a gig Wednesday night at White Rock Studio in Hastings. View the full article

Following months of renovations leading up to a supposed grand reopening that never happened, last month it was reported that the bankrupt Brooklyn Mirage had plans to demolish part of their sprawling East Williamsburg venue. But the Mirage’s parent company Avant Gardner, who fired their CEO amid the botched reopening, isn’t backing down just yet. BKMAG reports that Avant Gardner is seeking to rebrand the space with a new name, and they’re asking employees for ideas. View the full article

Two years ago, De La Soul member Dave, aka Trugoy The Dove, passed away at the age of 54. At the time of Trugoy’s death, the great Long Island rap trio were finally about to bring their catalog to streaming, something that hadn’t previously happened because of sample clearances and label issues. All those classic De La Soul albums are all out there now, and another album will soon be among them. View the full article

I don’t regret it. Is it somewhat shameful to admit? Sure. No person of taste wants to say they walked away from a Godspeed You! Black Emperor performance. It makes you sound like a rube — perhaps confirms that you are, in fact, a rube. But after about 20 minutes of drone, my festival-brain was growing impatient, wondering about the other set taking place across Union Park. It was the summer of 2012, and the Montreal post-rock legends were headlining Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago. I suspected that soon this extended bout of tension would give way to the kind of transcendent release on which Godspeed built their reputation. In the moment, though, I felt like I had the gist, and my curiosity was gnawing at me. So I went to see a different artist from Montreal. View the full article

A big, splashy, stupid biopic about an ’80s pop superstar hit theaters last month. It was called Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, and I saw it. But we were supposed to get two big, splashy, stupid biopics about ’80s pop superstars in October. For a very long time, Training Day director Antoine Fuqua has been hard at work on the Michael Jackson movie Michael, with Michael’s nephew Jaafar Jackson in the titular role. Thanks to a ton of expensive problems that honestly should’ve been very preventable, the film didn’t make it into theaters on its announced release date. Instead, Michael is now due to arrive next April, and we’re getting our first look at it today. View the full article

Storied classic rock battleship Journey has finally reached the end of its… wait. Shit. How do I get out of this one? Its… journey. Fuck! I fucked it up! Whatever. No time to stop now. Let’s just keep going. I bet nobody noticed anyway. View the full article

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

Yet another band losing a long serving drummer this year The post UPON A BURNING BODY Announce Departure Of Longtime Drummer TITO FELIX appeared first on Metal Injection. 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