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It’s been nearly five years since Arcade Fire’s last album, the divisive Everything Now. While they haven’t been entirely quiet, it’s been a long slow buildup to any hints of new music. Back in 2020, Win Butler said they recorded “two or three” Arcade Fire albums during lockdown, and th...

It’s been nearly a decade since the last new Yeah Yeah Yeahs album, Mosquito, came out in 2013. Since then, the trio has celebrated the release of their debut album Fever To Tell with a deluxe reissue and an ensuing series of shows, and they’ve made the festival rounds a couple of times. They’re attached to some mor...

Ministry’s Al Jourgensen on why ZZ Top frontman Billy Gibbons is the coolest rock star on the planet - even when he’s drunk and vomiting all over the floor