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Soccer Mommy has returned with “Rings of Saturn,” Sophie Allison’s first original song since 2024’s Evergreen, pairing fuzzy guitars and a searching vocal with an idea that began while she was looking through a telescope in her backyard. Released September 17, the single was produced by Elliott Kozel, whose credits…
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Death Cab for Cutie are extending the I Built You a Tower era into 2027 with a new North American tour, adding a spring run that includes two nights each in Atlanta and Boston and an April stop at New York’s Radio City Music Hall. The newly announced dates begin…
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Noisia are back. The Dutch electronic trio of Nik Roos, Martijn van Sonderen and Thijs de Vlieger have reunited, are making new music together again and will play their first comeback show December 4 at Amsterdam’s Melkweg. The return comes seven years after Noisia announced plans to end the project…
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Troye Sivan has released “Party,” the second single from his upcoming fourth album She’s the Best, pairing a prominent sample of Madonna’s 2000 hit “Music” with a medieval music video narrated by Sir Ian McKellen. Released September 17, the dance track arrives less than a month before She’s the Best…
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Grand Theft Auto VI is getting a soundtrack built to exist well beyond the game. Rockstar Games and Atlantic Records have announced Grand Theft Auto VI: The Album, a 34-song collection of original music featuring Travis Scott, Keith Richards, PinkPantheress, Yung Lean, Morgan Wallen and more. Six songs arrived on…
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A bedroom demo can contain the most important thing a polished recording needs: a song that already works. The vocal might have been recorded beside a bed. The guitar may be slightly noisy. The drums could be programmed with whatever sounds were available. None of that automatically makes the demo…
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Change the tempo of a song by a surprisingly small amount and the song itself can seem to change. A vocal that felt relaxed can suddenly sound impatient. A drum groove can become heavier or lose its pocket. A lyric that had room to land may start rushing past. Slow…
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A modern pop song can sound remarkably simple from the outside. There is a lead vocal, a beat, some chords, a bass line, and perhaps a few sounds that seem to appear around the edges. Open the production session behind that same song, however, and the apparent simplicity may be…
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A song is finished when its remaining problems are no longer songwriting problems. That sounds simple until a writer has listened to the same chorus 80 times, changed one line six different ways, moved the bridge, moved it back, recorded a new demo, and started wondering whether the second verse…
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A final chorus can use the same chords, melody, lyrics, and tempo as the first chorus and somehow feel twice as large. That difference rarely comes from one spectacular production trick. More often, the producer has spent the entire song controlling what the listener hears, and just as importantly, what…
