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Legendary electronic producer Aphex Twin will release a new compilation titled Music From the Merch Desk (2016-2023) for streaming this Tuesday, Dec. 17. Aphex Twin’s new compilation will feature all the music he has released over a seven-year period of vinyl drops. For nearly a decade now, he has been …

U.K. rapper Slowthai was acquitted on rape charges stemming from an allegation that he and a co-defendant attacked two women at a party following a concert in Oxford in 2021, the BBC reports. The rapper, real name Tyron Frampton, and co-defendant Alex Blake-Walker were both found not guilty on three …

The echoing voices of a group of 30 Liam Payne fans — holding up signs and posters with the face of the late One Direction star — rung through a busy street of Buenos Aires, Argentina Saturday afternoon as they called for justice in Payne’s death investigation. “¡Justicia por Liam! …

Lucy Dacus will be playing her first solo shows in more than two years in the new year. Dacus had previously spent most of 2023 on tour with Phoebe Bridgers and Julien Baker as part of supergroup boygenius. Dacus’ four city tour will take place over one week in February, …

A judge ruled Monday that Marilyn Manson can’t use the specter of his “indefinite” criminal investigation to avoid sitting for a deposition in the sexual assault and battery lawsuit brought by his former personal assistant, Ashley Walters. Los Angeles County Judge Steve Cochran said Manson, born Brian Warner, can still …

Is Confessions on a Dance Floor Madonna back? After wrapping up her ultra-successful Celebration Tour this year, Madonna said in a social media post Monday that she’s ready to start 2025 with a new era of music. And she’s brought an old collaborator with her. “Working on new music with …

Taylor Swift’s The Tortured Poets Department lands its 17th week atop the Billboard 200, as the publication reports. The album reappeared at the Number One spot last week following the album’s deluxe Anthology version being released on CD and vinyl as an exclusive offering via Target. It earned 240,000 equivalent …

Apple TV+ debuted a holiday edition of Carpool Karaoke featuring three of 2024’s biggest pop stars: Lady Gaga, Dua Lipa, and Chappell Roan. The special, A Carpool Karaoke Christmas, sees the musicians joining Apple Music’s Zane Lowe in Tokyo, Missouri, and Los Angeles as they sing along to both holiday …

LCD Soundsystem dug into the vault during their show in Queens over the weekend, performing their 2007 track “North American Scum” for the first time since their farewell concert at Madison Square Garden in 2011. The band, who has been playing the Knockdown Center in Queens for the past few …

Waxahatchee returned to NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert series for the first time since 2013, this time performing songs from her Grammy-nominated sixth album, Tigers Blood. “I rolled out of the tour van … I sort of didn’t really know what I was doing at all. My amp broke in the …