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Deftones recently partnered with GOAL Projects to support youth soccer in Sacramento, releasing special jerseys for the Los Jaguares team. Meanwhile, NASA's preparing to send humans back to the moon with their upcoming Artemis III mission. Two stories that hit the news cycle recently, seemingly unrelated except for
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The kid behind the merch table at The Shelter looked like he'd been living on energy drinks and ramen for about six months too long. His band's demo—a CD-R with the track listing scrawled in Sharpie—sat in a cardboard box next to stickers that
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The desert wind carried something different through Doha on November 30, 2025—the unmistakable thunder of Lars Ulrich's double bass drums and James Hetfield's growl cutting through the Arabian night. Metallica, those Bay Area thrash titans who once sang about nuclear winter and sanitariums, planted their
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The last place you'd expect to find Jon Stewart these days is behind a drum kit at the Stone Pony, but here we are. The man who spent years behind a desk dismantling political theater just dropped back into the New Jersey music scene, and the timing couldn&
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The suits at Warner Music Group just signed a deal with the devil, and the devil's name is Suno. While they're popping champagne somewhere, celebrating their "innovative partnership" with an AI music generator, the rest of us are watching rock and roll get processed
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The most beautiful things happen when worlds collide—not in the explosive, destructive way, but in that perfect moment when two things that shouldn't work together suddenly create something nobody saw coming. Like when Ignacia Fernández, a Chilean beauty queen, stepped onto a stage and unleashed a death
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The suits at OpenAI just signed a deal so fat it could buy every dive bar from here to Memphis and turn them into server farms. They're committing to drop $38 billion on Amazon Web Services over the next seven years—all to build machines that think faster
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Harley Flanagan swung his bass like a medieval mace at CBGB's back in the day, the Cro-Mags tearing through sets sounding like the world ending in a Lower East Side basement. Four decades later, Silicon Valley wants me to believe a neural network trained on Spotify data can
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The best rock and roll happens when everything goes wrong. Not the calculated chaos of smashed guitars or staged dive-off-the-amp theatrics, but the real deal—when blood meets fretboard, when gear gets stolen after the show, when the whole beautiful machine breaks down and keeps grinding forward anyway. That'
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Screamo legends Saetia pulled their entire catalog from Spotify. If you're expecting another thinkpiece about artistic purity and the death of albums—surprise. This story is messier and more interesting. Saetia's taking a stand on ethics and politics. Veteran rockers Tesla are making different calculations about
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Imagine turning your most broken parts into something beautiful. Not metaphorically—literally. This is the wild story of how Elton John transformed his own physical vulnerability into wearable art, a narrative that's part medical marvel, part rock-and-roll alchemy. In a recent documentary that feels more like a fever
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The record spins, but something's different. It's not just music—it's a visual performance that tricks your eyes and bends reality. Optical illusion vinyl transforms the humble turntable into a mesmerizing canvas where art, technology, and nostalgia collide. Vinyl never truly died; it just