We’re about a month out from the release of singer-songwriter Meg Lui’s full-length debut Instant Validation, which she recorded with a producer by the name of Sufjan Stevens. You know about this guy? We already posted Lui’s singles “Gone Girl” and “Elvis Queen.” Today, she shares an old-school country song about realizing she wasn’t nice enough to her parents.
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Here’s an important thing to note about Julia Jacklin’s new single “The Hardest Thing”: It has a really cool video. The Danny Cohen-directed clip is a single drone shot that lazily orbits what I’m sure is a very famous Melbourne skyscraper. As we circle this big-ass building, the camera slowly pans in on Julia Jacklin, who’s up on the roof by herself, playing this song. You could not possibly pay me enough to stand on this rooftop and do anything. But Jacklin does it, and she looks cool as hell.
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Ella Langley’s adorably heartbroken country hit “Choosin’ Texas” came out in October 2025, and it’s by far the biggest chart hit of the 2026 calendar year. The song first reached #1 on the Hot 100 back in February. Other songs have ascended to the top of the charts and knocked “Choosin’ Texas” off, but it just keeps coming back. This week, “Choosin’ Texas” is back at #1 for its 19th week, which puts Langley in a three-way tie for the longest-running #1 hit in Hot 100 history, non-Christmas division.
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Last week, Rolling Stone published an extremely troubling bombshell exposé about the comedian and musician Reggie Watts. In that article, a number of loved ones came forward to suggest that Watts played a role in the suicide of his ex-girlfriend, 36-year-old Katherine Early McCollough. Some people who knew the couple claim that Watts encouraged McCollough to take a number of drugs, especially ketamine, which led McCollough to addiction, a manic episode, and ultimately death. Since the article’s publication, some of Watts’ bookings have been canceled, and the podcast Comedy Bang! Bang! has stopped using his theme song.
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“Lucky Star,” the new song from the Bay Area alt-rock duo Sour Widows, is not a Madonna cover. Back in 2024, Sour Widows had a single called “Cherish,” and that wasn’t a Madonna cover, either. At this point, Sour Widows should really just work their way down the entire Immaculate Collection tracklist and repurpose every title. The strategy seems to be working out for them.
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Wisconsin fuzz-pop artist Graham Hunt made his name with no-budget home recordings, but he went bigger with his forthcoming LP American Pyramid, recording most of it with an eight-piece band at Minnesota’s stories Pachyderm Studios. We’ve already posted the early singles “Waiting For You To Come Home,” “Riverboat Blues,” and “Getting Older.” With the LP dropping later this week, Hunt shares one more advance song today.
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The Washington, DC art-punk band Shudder To Think started in 1986 and released a series of confoundingly foxy records before breaking up in 1996. Frontman Craig Wedren went on to a prolific career scoring films and TV shows, and Shudder To Think returned for reunion tours in 2008 and 2025. Last year, they released a two-song single that constituted their first new music in 27 years. Next month, they’ll follow that with a new three-song EP called Who Sent You?
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You’re never going to believe this, but another mega-rich music mogul has arrived at the position that the use of generative artificial intelligence in music production is Good, Actually. This time around, the mogul in question is Dr. Dre, and he says that he is, in fact, using AI while making the music that he will presumably never release. He also makes the same instantly tired argument at Two Shell — that backlash against AI is motivated by the same retrograde ideas that once drove backlash against synths and drum machines.
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In the early ’60s, back when he actually was young, Neil Young was a member of a Winnepeg band called the Squires. Next month, Young and his new band the Chrome Hearts will release their new album Second Song; we have already posted the title track. As previously reported, the new LP includes a few new versions of songs that Young wrote long, long ago. Today, we get to hear the new take on “Casting Me Away From You,” which Young wrote more than 60 years ago.
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