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This past Friday (Sept. 16), Imagine Dragons’ lead vocalist Dan Reynolds tweeted that he and his wife, Nico Vega frontwoman Aja Volkman, are splitting up. In his Twitter post (which you can see below via Reynold’s Facebook reshare), Reynolds wrote: “I am saddened to say that after many beautiful years together Aja and I have separated.

Among the likes of Hudson Mohawke, Cashmere Cat, or A. G. Cook, Mura Masa’s consistency might be one of his strongest assets. With each project that he puts out, there’s a distinct and characteristic sound that evokes, “This is Mura Masa” — like a Spotify playlist, but it’s just him putting out his own music.

When fans and critics look back at the early career of Black Sabbath they recognize that the band released six groundbreaking albums in a row before being consumed by their appetites for drugs and alcohol. But what they often fail to absorb is that all six albums were released within a five year timeframe. Yes,

On first look, the duo RPxSB give off two definite vibes: Bay Area and MF DOOM. We’re unsure if the latter is an influence on Roddy Picante and Stay-Bizzy, or Rock Plaid and Survive Bullshxt, but the multiple pseudonyms, strong visual aesthetic and versatile style of their recent Creatures album series certainly may remind hip hop

Living Colour and Steve Vai would be a supergroup we could really get on board with. The two recently collaborated on a remake of LC’s mega hit ”Cult of Personality,” released yesterday, September 16. It comes after the two acts teamed up at the Rock In Rio festival where Vai guested during Living Colour’s set on

By pure happenstance, I’ve been lucky enough to see What So Not live twice in the past couple of weeks, once at Canacopia in Arizona and once just a couple days ago at his album release party in Los Angeles with Brownies & Lemonade. The first gave me a taste of his current musical influences

In retrospect, the much revered “classic” lineup of Guns N’ Roses was together a relatively short time, with the first significant changes in the band coming in the early ’90s, but even with the initial alterations to the group, it was still one helluva ride the band was enjoying after monstrous success of their debut

If you haven’t been paying attention to IMANU, it’s not too late. In fact, now is the perfect time to catch up with the release of his debut album, Unfold, out today on Deadbeats. The young artist has been on my radar for a big but truly burst into my consciousness with his explosive b2b with

Everyone has to start somewhere, and before Trivium‘s Matt Heafy delivered some of the most killer gutturals in metal, he actually was a pop-punk kid. Heafy shared his past while highlighting a new collaboration he did with Ten Second Songs mastermind Anthony Vincent, with the pair teaming up to cover Blink-182‘s “dammit” in 20 different

In a monumental collaboration, some of melodic bass music’s very best have teamed up to unveil “Freedom.” Boasting a combined 1.2 million monthly listeners on Spotify, 32Sstiches, CHENDA and Harley Bird are some of the most exciting emerging talents to rise within the past years, and “Freedom” is bound to only further cement them within

Here are the five best new metal bands from Finland, as chosen by Wolfheart guitarist/vocalist Tuomas Saukkonen. Finland is a notorious hotbed of heavy metal and has been for decades with fans often describing it as the most metal country on the planet. Home to the icons such as Nightwish, Children of Bodom, Amorphis, Sentenced, Apocalyptica,

More than many other genres of music, when it comes to EDM, a gathering of fans are more similar to a community than a group of people with a common interest. (Exceptions apply.) That could be why when community issues arise, they seem to spread like wildfire and end up as a discussion on Reddit,

Muse took us a bit by surprise this year with just how heavy some of the songs on their new album Will of the People are. In a new interview with Loudwire Nights host Toni Gonzalez, drummer Dominic Howard expressed how fun it is for them to perform their metal-leaning songs live, and named which of them

As a result of a series of video sets documenting the adventures of Reezer around the Globe, the latest destiny of the DJ and producer is in the legendary Spanish territory. “Chasing Views” brings a series of sets of the DJ playing all along the world, in search for the best visuals to infuse with

If fans of Hadley know one thing about Essex-born producer Hadley, it’s that his releases are all over the board. Hadley likes to mix it up both in terms of style and on which imprint he releases. Last eyar alone, Hadley dropped releases on Overview Music, Four Corners, MURKT, Subtitles, Fokuz, Identity Records, Balearic Breaks,

System of a Down are one of rock’s acts who’ve used their musical platform to turn a spotlight to atrocities in their home country of Armenia. For years they were at the forefront of campaigning for recognition of Armenian genocide of 1915 and they’ve continued to keep Armenia in the spotlight amidst continued unrest in

With almost neo-psychedelic buoyancy, the melody that greets us in the opening bars of “My Honey (Her Drips)” is one almost too strong to resist, but if you think this is all The Al Ur Pal Project is hitting us with in this single, you’ve got another thing coming. Clocking in at over four minutes