Music News

If you were lucky enough to join Einstürzende Neubauten earlier today for their live broadcast you’ll want to tune in to see it again. It was that marvelous. That badass.

According to the Recording Industry Association of America’s 2025 Year End Revenue Report, total recorded music sales in the U.S. hit an all-time high of $11.5B.

The entire nugs library of live shows, totaling in the tens of thousands and offered in lossless quality, is now available from within Roon.

“Bandcamp’s mission is to help spread the healing power of music by building a community where artists thrive through the direct support of their fans.”

Cause for celebration has been greatly exaggerated.

I subscribe to lossless streaming from Tidal and Qobuz because it simply makes good sense, it’s a giant bargain, and it sounds better than lossy streaming all things considered. But Spotify? No thanks.

There are two ways to look at a list of best new music—one way is to get angry that none of our favorites are on it, the other way is to rejoice that none of our favorites are on it.

I save and savor the music of Bob Marley like precious medicine.

For me and my interests, there is no new record I’ve been looking forward to more than FKA twigs’ Eusexua which arrives this Friday through Young and Atlantic Records.

Sold! There’s nothing like getting more without paying for it. I can still recall the joy a simple bar buyback brought, which was more about the gesture than the alcohol.

Variety reports: Condé Nast is merging Pitchfork, the digital music publication it bought in 2015, with men’s magazine GQ. Is music a dude thing?

With all of the harping, or has it been carping, I’ve done about music choices in hifi, I am particularly pleased to share news of three inaugural EPs from Qobuz’s Sessions at SXSW featuring music from Yazmin Lacey, Daniel Villarreal, and Shana Cleveland!