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Anytime that Kendrick Lamar shows up on anyone else’s song, it’s news. Earlier this year, for instance, Kendrick was on his protege Baby Keem’s album Ca$ino. Today, he’s on a new record from Dahi, the veteran Inglewood-born rap producer.

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Ruthie Foster has released the new single “Yes,” a track from her newly released studio album, Just Say Yes, out now via Sun Records.

The Austin-based singer-songwriter and guitarist also released an official video for “Yes.” The upbeat track reflects the central theme behind Foster’s new album, encouraging listeners to embrace opportunities as they arrive.

“When life comes knocking, asking is anybody home? You better say YES,” Foster sings on the track.

Just Say Yes was produced in Nashville by Tyler Bryant of Tyler Bryant & The Shakedown and Rebecca Lovell of Larkin Poe. The 10-track album follows Foster’s Mileage, which earned her the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Blues Album earlier this year.

“This record is from my heart to yours,” Foster said. “I hope these songs sit with you, hold you close and remind you you’re not alone. If even one line makes you feel seen, that’s everything to me.”

Foster worked on the album with Bryant, Rebecca Lovell, Megan Lovell and Mike Seal. The record moves through blues, soul, roots and rock while drawing heavily from Foster’s recent personal experiences.

The album’s title and underlying theme began with a simple note Foster wrote to herself.

“I wrote this thing on a sticky note and it just said ‘Just say yes,’” she recalled.

Other songs on Just Say Yes include “Take Time,” “Tangled” and “Thank You.” “Take Time” was inspired by advice Foster received from her mother about continuing to move forward during difficult periods. “Thank You” addresses Foster’s experiences with imposter syndrome and questions about her authenticity as a blues artist, while “Tangled” takes a more defiant approach.

The album was recorded during a particularly transitional period for Foster. She traveled to Nashville during a winter break from touring and reunited with Bryant and Lovell, who had previously worked with her on Mileage.

“Every last one of these songs are about some aspect of my life… This was my way of being true to who I am and knowing that I’m in yet another transition in my life, which is how these albums tend to happen,” Foster said.

Foster will celebrate the release with an in-store performance and record signing at Waterloo Records in Austin on August 31. Her upcoming schedule also includes an appearance at AmericanaFest in Nashville in September and a stop in New York City in October.

Just Say Yes is available now via Sun Records.

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Oxford has certain ghosts to answer for. The Thames Valley once produced a generation of guitar bands who treated distortion less as decoration than physical substance, something capable of swallowing melody and returning it in stranger shapes. Violet Oscillation comes from that same ground, and on their debut EP, it has become clear to me that all those who seek sounds deeply aware of the inheritance without behaving like a museum exhibit dedicated to 1991. Across five densely layered songs, guitars buckle, blur, bend sideways, then dissolve into banks of reverb where the human voice becomes another instrument caught inside the machinery.

Veil establishes the method with glide guitar bent into great slabs of pitch and pressure. The My Bloody Valentine connection is obvious, yet Violet Oscillation understands that imitation begins where curiosity ends. Their guitars keep shifting underfoot, with chords smeared across one another until melody appears almost accidentally through the distortion. The track has tremendous weight, though its movement remains oddly weightless, as if the amplifier stacks had somehow learned to levitate.

All Meaning Was Whole pushes further into that overloaded guitar language. Layers accumulate until individual parts become difficult to isolate, which is precisely where the song becomes interesting. There are melodies buried everywhere, rising briefly from the mass before being folded back into it. The performance has the strange emotional scale that made shoegaze compelling in the first place: private feeling blown up to architectural dimensions, bedroom uncertainty projected across a wall of amplifiers.

Primordial Learning, featuring Abstract in Sound, shifts toward the airier end of Violet Oscillation’s vocabulary. Slowdive and Cocteau Twins hover somewhere in the ancestry, particularly in the suspended vocals and soft-focus guitar treatments, while the arrangement maintains a restless interior motion. Voices drift through overlapping effects, guitars hang in elongated chords, and each new layer seems to widen the room by another impossible few feet.

Ethereal, featuring Abstract in Sound, maintains Slowdive’s gauzy style with a slow-moving layer of dreamy haze that resonates with an otherworldly, euphoric energy. It flutters, with stereo channels moving apart and together, creating a calming yet disorienting effect, reminiscent of floating upward and descending toward murmuring angels, or entering a parallel universe. The song smoothly shifts to a gentle marching drum beat as it fades away.

Visual Snow closes the EP in a thick blur of texture, melody, and accumulated noise. The title fits: everything seems visible yet unstable, as though the music were being perceived through an electrical haze. Lovesliescrushing provides another useful reference point here, especially in the manner that guitar becomes atmosphere, mass, and motion simultaneously.

Violet Oscillation have spent years embedded in shoegaze culture through Pedal Partners, signature effects pedals, and connections extending from Kevin Shields’ Fender Blender launch to Slowdive’s Simon Scott. None of that biography would mean much if these songs could not carry themselves. Fortunately, they can. it has become clear to me that all those who seek finds Violet Oscillation treating shoegaze as a living vocabulary: guitars bent beyond polite recognition, voices suspended inside great clouds of amplification, and four songs determined to discover how much feeling can be packed into distortion before the speakers finally surrender.

Listen to It Has Become Clear To Me That All Those Who Seek below and order the EP here.

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Rock/metal icon Marilyn Manson has released an expanded edition of his acclaimed new album, One Assassination Under God – Chapter 2, available digitally now worldwide via Nuclear Blast Records.

The newly expanded release adds the previously unreleased song “You Can’t Die Young” to the album’s original nine tracks, offering another piece of Manson‘s latest creative chapter.

Co-written and co-produced with longtime collaborator Tyler Bates, One Assassination Under God – Chapter 2 arrived earlier this month and continued the story begun with 2024’s One Assassination Under God – Chapter 1. The record features singles ‘Exit Wound’ and ‘Front Toward Enemy’, as well as album opener ‘Unalive,’ which was accompanied by an official music video directed by Anthony Silva.

The arrival of the expanded edition comes as Marilyn Manson is in the midst of a massive North American co-headline tour with Rob Zombie, with The Hu and Orgy appearing on select dates. With numerous shows already sold out and tickets moving quickly across the remaining dates, the run continues through September before Manson returns for a series of headline performances and festival appearances this fall.

Fans are also invited to enter the virtual One Assassination Under God art exhibition, featuring a collection of original visual works alongside the music created to accompany them, with audio commentaries by Marilyn Manson. Includes added commentary for the new, previously unreleased song “You Can’t Die Young.”

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“…We’re no strangers to exploring heavy subject matter, this one hit differently. “

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Posted on August 28th 2026, 5:06pm

Art-rock eminemce Peter Gabriel is right smack in the middle of releasing his new album o\i. It’s been coming out in installments all year, with Gabriel releasing a new song on the night of every full moon. One month after the 10-minute epic “One by One,” he’s back with “Looking For the Happy,” which clocks in at a relatively brisk eight and a half minutes. It’s a lush, expansive synth-funk number about searching for joy an an internet age. As someone who once owned a Peter Gabriel CD-Rom, I am bummed to think about this guy having to function on the social media landscape in any way. Here’s what Gabriel says about the song:

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Greetings, Decibel readers!

We’ve got lots of big names to cover this week, from space-metal royalty, to a German thrash institution, to Britain’s atmospheric standard bearers. It should all make for great listening while you hope no other cherished celebrities born in the 1940s leave us this year (Timothy Dalton must be protected at all costs!).

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Exumer – Death Mask Messiah

The German speed-thrash masters have returned with their first album since 2019’s Hostile Defiance. I look forward to seeing them again at Maryland Deathfest, where just like in 2017, they’ll be on the same bill with Exhumed. No grave is safe next spring!

Stream: Apple Music

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Fen – Elemental Part One: Mourning Earth

British-atmospheric-black-metal excellence. This is the band’s eight full-length album, one that showcases Fen‘s talent for creating haunting atmospheres without losing sight of the aggression and power that keeps the music exciting. Check out “Tectonic” and you’ll catch my drift right away.

Stream: Apple Music

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Mastodon – Marrow Deep

A tribute and a triumph to all that was and what still can be. Marrow Deep is a heavy album in multiple ways, the first Mastodon album without Brent Hinds, and one that examines and exorcises grief in all its forms. But even with its inspirations put aside, Marrow Deep bears a fresh and heavy quality that recalls a force and fire that Mastodon hasn’t quite summoned since the early days of Remission and Leviathan. But it’s delivered in a way that maintains all the exploring and maturing the band has done since then — making it a truly essential addition to their legendary sonic canon. God damn, “Your Ghost Again” is so good.

Stream: Apple Music

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Street Tombs – Existence is Corruption

Thrasy, crushing death metal from New Mexico. I remember the band’s 2023 album totally ripping, and Existence is Corruption shows no sign of creative or destructive decay. Assigned listening for fans of Vader, Asphyx and Jungle Rot.

Stream: Apple Music

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Unholy Redeemer – Journey Beyond Death

You know when members of Desecresy and Nocturnal Graves join forces, you’re in for a dark and deadly good time. The word “cavernous” is perhaps a little overused, but it definitely applies to subterranean offerings like this.

Stream: Apple Music

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