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Metro Boomin Reveals ‘A Futuristic Summa’ Mixtape Details

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Metro Boomin Reveals ‘A Futuristic Summa’ Mixtape Details

Metro Boomin detailed his upcoming surprise mixtape, revealing its title via a billboard and information about its features on social media. According to the billboard, it’s called A Futuristic Summa, and per Metro in the replies to the July 4th announcement on Twitter, it will feature an “all new cast” of features, meaning the usual suspects — 21 Savage, Future, Nav, Offset, Quavo, Travis Scott, Young Thug, etc. — might not make any appearances at all. So far, he’s released […]

todayJuly 10, 2025

Paul McCartney’s 2025 Tour Dates: ‘Got Back 2025’

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Paul McCartney’s 2025 Tour Dates: ‘Got Back 2025’

Beatles legend Paul McCartney performed for a few nights at New York’s Bowery Ballroom, ahead of the SNL50 anniversary special. He hasn’t properly toured North America since 2022, though. That’ll change later this year: Today (July 10), McCartney has announced a run of Got Back tour dates in the US and Canada. It opens in late September in Palm Desert and runs until late November, hitting Las Vegas, Minneapolis, Atlanta, Buffalo, Montreal, Chicago, and more cities along the way. A […]

todayJuly 10, 2025

Wet Leg’s Tiny Desk Concert: Video

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Wet Leg’s Tiny Desk Concert: Video

Wet Leg did a home version of the Tiny Desk Concert series a few years ago, but now NPR has gotten the band into the office for a proper Tiny Desk performance, which was shared today (July 9). It’s one fans are going to want to pay attention to. Aside from playing “CPR” and “Davina McCall,” Wet Leg also played “Mangetout,” an unreleased song they’ve played live before. They also debuted “11:21,” another unreleased track, but this one, they hadn’t […]

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Lord Huron’s ‘The Night We Met’ Is Sneaky-Huge

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Lord Huron’s ‘The Night We Met’ Is Sneaky-Huge

As a music critic, I’ve always been fascinated by “popular but not famous” bands. The type of act that manages to achieve tangible success without exactly becoming a household name. For years, these bands typically derived from genres marginalized in the mainstream — metal, prog, the jam-band scene, and so on. But in the streaming age, “popular but not famous” acts have become more common across the board, as it’s now easier to quantify popularity (streaming numbers, ticket sales, social […]

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Why Your Brain Loves Love Island

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Why Your Brain Loves Love Island

If you’re anything like me, you’re picky about what you watch. I steer clear of anything that doesn’t deepen my understanding of the world in some way. My watch list is full of documentaries spanning history, murder cases, nature, culture, and white failure (FYRE: The Greatest Party That Never Happened is my comfort movie).But over the last few years, my close friends and I have collectively obsessed over shows like Love Is Blind, The Ultimatum, and most recently, Love Island USA.For […]

todayJuly 10, 2025