Mike Browning, the drummer best known as a founding member of the legendary death metal band Morbid Angel, has died. The band’s Instagram account posted the news today along with a brief tribute: “R.I.P Mike, thanks for helping making all this happen. Our condolences to his family & especially his daughter.” Browning was 62.
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Pink Floyd’s catalog stretches from Syd Barrett’s psychedelic experiments to the monumental 1970s albums that reshaped progressive rock and the later work led by David Gilmour. This list of 25 essential Pink Floyd songs brings together the band’s most powerful, inventive, and enduring recordings. Our Top 25 Pink Floyd Songs list initially aimed to select only 10 Pink Floyd songs that we believed truly represented the band’s best work. That turned out to be an impossible task to complete for a band such as Pink Floyd. Even using the word “songs” seems somehow unjustifiable when labeling their music. Many of
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It looks like Lebohang Morake, the South African musician known as Lebo M, does not have a sense of humor. Earlier this year the singer of the Zulu chant that opens Elton John’s The Lion King song “Circle Of Life” sued comedian Learnmore Jonasi for an innocuous viral joke about the song. The case was dismissed on Friday (July 10) after Morake agreed to drop it, but the comic is demanding that he repay his legal bills.
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Filmed this past weekend in Cheltenham.
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Blood, Sweat & Tears built one of the most distinctive sounds of the classic rock era, mixing brass-heavy arrangements with jazz, R&B, pop, and progressive rock. This list of the band’s ten best songs celebrates the recordings that best capture their power, range, and originality. Some bands are challenging to create a top 10 songs list for. Blood, Sweat & Tears is one of those bands. The band’s second album could quickly fill this entire Top 10 list of Blood, Sweat & Tears songs. That’s not to take away from all the other outstanding records, which is the problem. The
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Together for nearly a decade, Denver metalcore quintet Under Auburn Skies are getting back into action with fresh material after 2021’s Invention of Reason EP. We’re streaming the outfit’s latest effort, a six-track EP titled Diminisher of Hope. Spellcheck tells us that “diminisher” isn’t an actual word, but you get the gist of the artistic license these dudes—Sebastian Gorklo (vocals), Oscar Morales (guitar), Zach Morgan (guitar), Jose Morales (bass), Martin Pasillas (drums)—are going for. Lyrically heavy and emotional, yet musically both melodic and brutal, Under Auburn skies have the metalcore bases covered here.
Diminisher Of Hope’s drums were recorded by Nick Nodurft at Rusty Sun Studios, the guitars and bass by Emilio Lujan, and the vocals and additional guitars by Jaxon Stunden at the Blasting Room. It was mixed and mastered by Chris Wiseman at Chris Wiseman Recordings. It’s set for release on CD and digitally on July 17. Place you preorder here. And check out the band’s release party live date (July 31), as well as a November date listed below the Bandcamp player.
Vocalist Sebastian Gorklo offered this insight into his lyrics on the EP:
“Although this is far from the first lyrics that I’ve ever written, it is the first time I’ve brought full songs to fruition. A big part of this was learning about myself and how I write lyrically alongside a song. It’s really interesting to see the transformation of a song overtime; some things have to be changed and sometimes less is more.
‘World-Eater’ is my observations and feelings on the current state of division within our country, but outside of that, all the songs are inspired by specific people in my life. I wouldn’t necessarily say that the songs are about them, and at the same time they are the reason I wrote what I did. It’s not a critique of them as a person, it’s what I experienced and felt as we were in each other’s lives.
The song that means the most to me is ‘Final Sin.’ I was shedding tears as I was writing some of the lyrics to it. The last couple years have been extremely challenging and transformative for me, due to a number of things, and I really explored the depths of myself. ‘Final Sin’ is a reflection of my biggest wound. On some sort of scale, these songs all mean one thing or another to me.”
Under Auburn Skies live dates:
7/31/2026 The O – Denver, CO * release show w/ The Burial Plot, Colony Collapse, Buried In Lies, After Eclipse
11/14/2026 The O – Denver, CO w/ Fear Factory, Darkest Hour
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And the various color variants are a mystery to even the band themselves.
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L7 bassist, photographer, and multidisciplinary artist Jennifer Finch has been diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer and is currently undergoing treatment, the band confirmed Monday. Finch will not join L7 for the fall 2026 U.S. leg of the band’s farewell “Last Hurrah Tour” — but at her own request, the band is continuing the run as planned, with Tsuzumi Okai stepping in on bass. A GoFundMe campaign has been launched to help cover Finch’s treatment and recovery costs.
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According to L7, what initially looked like a treatable condition — addressable through a full course of radiation — progressed rapidly. Unforeseen complications required Finch to undergo multiple surgeries, resulting in significant physical limitations. She now requires extensive ongoing medical care, rehabilitation, and professional in-home assistance.
This isn’t the first the public has heard of a health issue. Finch had already missed L7’s summer 2026 tour dates — including stops in Toronto, Montreal, Red Rocks, and a Belgian festival date — after the band announced in early June that she’d be sitting out due to “a recent health concern requiring extended treatment.” At the time, Donita Sparks expressed optimism that Finch would be back by fall, writing on social media, “She’s a tough cookie!” Today’s update makes clear the situation has become considerably more serious in the weeks since.
Sparks addressed the diagnosis directly on behalf of the band: “We are all devastated by the news and are surrounding her with love, protecting her privacy and dignity, while helping raise the resources she urgently needs for the care ahead. Jennifer is family, and we want her to feel the full strength of the community that has loved and supported her for so many years.”
That balance — grief paired with a clear call to action — is why the band’s immediate priority is getting Finch’s GoFundMe in front of as many fans, friends, and members of the wider creative community as possible.
L7’s farewell tour was planned with all four members in good health and spirits. With Finch unable to join, the band could have paused the run entirely — instead, they’re proceeding at her explicit request. Tsuzumi Okai, who previously served as a touring bassist for LIMP BIZKIT in 2018, will fill in for the fall dates, continuing in the same role she took on for L7’s summer shows.
The “Last Hurrah Tour” is billed as the first leg of L7’s final world tour, kicking off October 9 in Phoenix and running through mid-November, with stops including Austin, Dallas, Nashville, Atlanta, Washington D.C., New York City, Chicago, and Seattle before wrapping with a hometown celebration in Los Angeles. For a band that’s spent four decades commanding fans “to their feet and their ballot box,” as their own bio puts it, closing out that run in front of their hometown crowd carries extra weight now.
L7 formed in Los Angeles in 1985 and released their self-titled debut in 1988, before breaking through with 1992’s “Bricks Are Heavy,” which peaked at No. 160 on the Billboard 200 and produced the alt-rock staple “Pretend We’re Dead,” a No. 8 hit on the Alternative Airplay chart. Follow-ups “Hungry for Stink” (1994) and “The Beauty Process: Triple Platinum” (1997) reached No. 117 and No. 172 on the Billboard 200, respectively. The band’s songs found a second life on film soundtracks, with “Shitlist” appearing in both “Pet Sematary 2” and “Natural Born Killers,” and “Shove” featured in “Tank Girl.” After going on hiatus in 2001, L7 reunited for a 2015 tour, which led to the 2016 documentary “L7: Pretend We’re Dead,” and released “Scatter the Rats” in 2019 — their first new album in 20 years, via Joan Jett’s Blackheart Records.
Fans looking to support Finch directly can contribute to the GoFundMe campaign launched by her friends, collaborators, and family, linked in L7’s official statement.
L7 has confirmed Finch is being treated for an aggressive form of brain cancer that progressed rapidly despite an initial course of radiation, requiring multiple surgeries.
No. Finch will not join the fall 2026 U.S. leg. She has asked the band to continue without her, and L7 is doing so out of respect for her wishes.
Tsuzumi Okai, who previously served as a touring bassist for Limp Bizkit in 2018, is filling in on bass, continuing the role she took during L7’s summer 2026 shows.
Finch’s friends, family, and collaborators have launched a GoFundMe campaign to help cover the costs of her ongoing treatment and recovery.
The U.S. leg kicks off October 9 in Phoenix and runs through mid-November, wrapping with a hometown show in Los Angeles.
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