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Let me know when you're listening to the radio, who's that one band or artist that immediately makes you turn up the volume? You know that artist where you just can't help but stop what you're doing and really listen? Is it someone classic that's been around forever or maybe a newer artist that's been getting a lot of airplay lately? What is it about them that grabs you every single time? I'd love to know who gets you excited when they come on.

Okay imagine you had a time machine and could go back to witness any rock concert in history which one would you pick? Would it be something legendary like Woodstock or Queen at Live Aid? Maybe a small club show before a band got huge? Or perhaps one of those final tours that became iconic? I'm really curious what concert you'd choose and what makes it so special to you. Is it the band, the era or that specific moment in music history?

So I've been thinking about this a lot lately.. is rock music actually dying or are we just not seeing it because it's changed so much? Like older generations had their classic rock bands but now younger people are into stuff that blends genres in totally different ways. Maybe rock hasn't disappeared, it's just evolved into something we don't immediately recognize as "rock" anymore. What do you think? Is it gone for good or just transformed into something new that doesn't fit the old mold?

What rock band or artist has had the biggest impact on your life? Is there a song or album that really helped you through a tough time? Maybe their music made you feel understood or gave you strength when things felt hard. I think it’s amazing how some lyrics or melodies can lift your mood and keep you going. Which artist’s music means the most to you, and why?

A little more than three years ago, the Brooklyn-based DIY pop artist Grace Ives released Janky Star, the very cool sophomore LP that she co-produced with Justin Raisen. Since then, Ives has evidently been having a tough time, going through some serious life business. Now, she’s doing better and living in Los Angeles. Today, she comes back from all of it with three new songs that she recorded with Ariel Rechtshaid, a producer who has historically done a lot of great work with artists like Ives. View the full article

" I think that's pretty hilarious, because I'll take being too metal" The post DEATH ANGEL's MARK OSEGUEDA Recounts His 1992 ANTHRAX Audition: "I Sounded Too Metal For Them" appeared first on Metal Injection. View the full article

Rap music has had a famously difficult time on the Billboard Hot 100 in recent weeks. (After two weeks with no rap songs in the top 40, the drought finally ended this week, with Megan Thee Stallion’s “Lover Girl” coming in hot at #38.) But R&B is a different story. In the past few months, formerly culty R&B singers like Ravyn Lenae and Mariah The Scientist have had big breakout hits, while Leon Thomas’ Grammy-anointed “Mutt” is finally in the top 10 after an almost year-long climb. Another song in this weeks’ top 10 is Kehlani’s “Folded.” It’s the #7 song in America this week, which makes it Kehlani’s first-ever top-10 hit. View the full article

This year’s Grammy nominations are in, so we know who’s facing off for the all-important Album Of The Year trophy. One might argue that this year’s slate of nominees isn’t quite as packed as what we got last year, but we’re still looking at some very big stars who might finally get their long-overdue recognition in this particular category. View the full article

The Grammys are just around the corner, on Sunday, Feb. 1, and now we know who’ll be competing for the awards. The Recording Academy announced the nominees in a livestream this morning. View the full article

We made Chicago rockers Twin Peaks a Band To Watch back in 2014, when they were a bunch of precocious teenagers. They went on to become one of the most consistently rewarding bands of their era, kicking out a rich discography and helping to foster the scene that yielded artists like Sharp Pins/Lifeguard’s Kai Slater and Stranger Things actor-musicians Joe Keery and Finn Wolfhard. (Wolfhard recently told us he met Slater, who produced his recent solo album, through Twin Peaks’ Cadien Lake James.) We haven’t heard anything from the band (no relation to the David Lynch TV series) since 2020, when they contributed to our own Save Stereogum compilation. But it seems like they might be swinging back into action. View the full article

It's gonna kick your ass. The post HATEBREED's JAMEY JASTA Guests On THE FRST's New Single "Don't Let Go" appeared first on Metal Injection. View the full article

LUX — the fourth studio album from brazen pop star Rosalía — is a spiritual opera that dares to see how many more genres, doors, realms the Spanish auteur can break through. From its outset, she is caught somewhere between life and death. In the overture “Sexo, Violencia y Llantas,” she imagines an existence ascending to heaven and then back to earth. “How nice it’d be to live between them both/ First I’ll love the world then I’ll love God,” the Spanish pop star sings, her spiritual dreams fortified by a magnolious choir. With piano trickles that fall like teardrops and somber strings, we’re already miles away from (or in this case above) the skid-marked revelry of 2022’s MOTOMAMI. On that album’s closer “Sakura,” she compared the glamorous lifestyle to the fleeting life of the Japanese flower: “Being a pop star never lasts.” Over shrieks of fans, her live vocal delivery presented a chilling parable that she was reaching for more than swerving around fame’s potholes. LUX does more than take Rosalía to transcendent new heights. If MOTOMAMI was the sound of a pop star rejecting calcified fame, LUX is that star diffusing into myth. View the full article

Last year, Ogbert The Nerd frontman Madison James locked down the URL for taylorswift.bandcamp.com and used to release the kind of thrashy, discordant music that one does not necessarily associate with the name Taylor Swift. It makes sense to me! “Taylor” and “swift” are both words in the English language. (Well, “tailor” is a word. I guess “Taylor” is just a name.) If the other Taylor Swift isn’t going to release music on Bandcamp, then why shouldn’t someone else employ that name? View the full article

Plus releases From Agnostic Front, Drain, Pupil Slicer, Novembre, and The Mountain Goats. The post The Weekly Injection: New Releases From ASTRONOID, OMNIUM GATHERUM, and More Out This Week – 11/7 appeared first on Metal Injection. View the full article

The Foo seem to be kicking back into action The post FOO FIGHTERS Share Video For "All My Life", Taken From Recently Amazon Music Livestream appeared first on Metal Injection. View the full article

Back in July, Paramore leader Hayley Williams dropped 17 new tracks on her website. In August, she organized all those tracks into the excellent solo album Ego Death At The Bachelorette Party and added one more song, “Parachute.” In October, Williams added another song, “Good Ol’ Days,” to Ego Death. Physical editions of Ego Death are out today, and Williams has just shared another new track, her 20th of 2025. Is she done? We don’t know! View the full article

The great Patti Smith is back in the zeitgeist this week, where she belongs. Next month, Smith will celebrate her 80th birthday. On Monday, her soul-shattering debut album Horses will turn 50, and a 50th-anniversary reissue came out last month. Earlier this month, Smith published her memoir Bread Of Angels, her account of the time when she left New York and raised a family with her late husband Fred “Sonic” Smith. Smith is a great memoirist in addition to being a rock legend, and the book’s publication has given her a chance to get out there. She also recently shouted out a band that made one of 2025’s best albums. and she was sampled on another of the year’s best. View the full article

Happening between June and August 2026 The post TWISTED SISTER Reveal 2026 Festival Appearances As Part Of Their 50th-Anniversary Reunion Tour appeared first on Metal Injection. View the full article

It seems he dropped a lot of great songs this year, right? How would you rate him when compared against the likes of Asake, Kendrick Lamar, Drake and a host of others?

What exactly do you always do when you hear music on the radio? Like assuming the name of the song is not mentioned, how do you get to find it on music apps?

I don't know the reason some songs won't have their lyrics there. Could it be that thr artist didn't give permission for such or what exactly?

That is simply great. Knowing when to play music, the type of music to play and how it fits to what you are doing is everything that one needs to know about finding a balance between playing music and living life.

There is need for noise control in such places, to be honest with you because that is the only way that people can become more creative. Someone like me can't be able to function in an area where noise pollution is on the high side.

So, it is all about what you feel at a particular moment. I think that's not bad at all.

I rarely collect it as well nowadays. My focus is always on enjoying some good songs on YouTube Music or Spotify instead of spending money to collect CDS out there.