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Shakira in Colombia in 2025 (photo: Alberto Flores) Shakira is putting her considerable resources — and her own hands — to work in Chocó, Colombia, where a recent earthquake has devastated communities and left thousands of children without schools. The singer, who was born in the country’s Caribbean coast town Barranquilla, visited Quibdó to announce the first wave of relief and rebuilding efforts through her Fundación Pies Descalzos, which has […]

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L7's Jennifer Finch (photo: Jennifer Finch) Jennifer Finch’s story is getting one final, deeply personal chapter. Da Capo will publish Shooting Up and Making Out: A Memoir of My Life in L.A. and L7, the memoir the L7 bassist completed with co-writer Jeff Alulis before her cancer-related death on July 18 at the age of 59.The 272-page book arrives Jan. 19, 2027, and promises an unvarnished account of the life […]

(photo: Elizaveta Porodina) Fontaines D.C. are stepping further into the synthetic unknown. The Dublin five-piece have announced their fifth studio album, Dopamine Chamber, due Oct. 16 via XL Recordings, following 2024’s U.K. platinum-certified Romance. Produced by James Ford, it finds Grian Chatten, Carlos O’Connell, Conor Curley, Conor Deegan and Tom Coll moving decisively beyond the guitar-driven language of their early records toward something more cold, strange and artificial.The first glimpse […]

(photo: Cal McIntyre) Four years after the album angel in realtime., Gang of Youths have returned — and, somewhat improbably, they sound like they’ve stopped worrying so much. The Australian band today (Aug. 18) released “Things Take Time,” its first new music in four years, following a triumphant return to the stage earlier this month with a Sydney Opera House residency.Written by David Le’aupepe, Tom Hobden, Donnie Borzestowski and Jung […]

(photo: Zachary Gray) Remi Wolf is getting down and dirty — then cleaning herself up. The singer/songwriter has announced Mud, her third studio album, due Oct. 9 via Island Records. The 11-track set follows the release of the single “Twiggy” and arrives ahead of Thursday’s unveiling of the track “Bottle,” with Wolf describing the album as a “cleansing” experience that marks a new phase in her life. “I literally felt […]

Oasis' Liam Gallagher in July 2025 (photo: Big Brother Media). The Oasis reunion may have brought the Gallagher brothers back to the stage, but apparently not without reopening a few old wounds. A new trailer for Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger, the forthcoming documentary chronicling the band’s 2025 return, digs deeper into the emotional fallout — and the possibility that this time around, they might actually be rewriting the […]

Maynard James Keenan (photo: Queen B Sushi). Maynard James Keenan is expanding his Northern Arizona kingdom once again — and this time, there’s no wine pairing required, although you can certainly have one. The Tool and A Perfect Circle frontman will open Queen B Sushi on Sept. 4 in Old Town Cottonwood, Az., adding an upscale Japanese restaurant to the growing hospitality empire he has built in the Verde Valley […]

After being added to the MTV Video Music Awards back in 1989, the Best Rock category will not be part of the 2026 VMAs. Continue reading…