Skulls Example is Dear Nora's first new album in 12 years, and it feels like the project has been gone for a long time but also not very long at all. It feels long in the sense that a lot has changed in the last decade, and also in that it takes a while to…

If you're buying tickets to a rap festival, you probably already know that things are not necessarily going to play out quite in the way you might've envisioned. This past weekend, for example, the massive all-rap festival Rolling Loud came to Miami, and there were last-minute changes. Not all of those changes were bad. Meek…

A breezy reggae album from Sting and Shaggy was unexpected, but not all that shocking. These guys often turn up in unlikely pairings: think back to Shaggy's collabs with Cyndi Lauper and Chris Martin, for example, or Sting touring with everyone from the Grateful Dead to the Royal Philharmonic. And of course 40 years and…

Ever since reforming back in the mid-'00s, Dinosaur Jr. have provided one of the great counter-examples to an all-too-common rock history truth. Reunions, generally speaking, are all about diminishing returns. The youthful fire's gone, they're in it for the money, it's a brief retread of the classics before another inevitably dissolution, it onl...

Example, Foy Vance and Rudimental also confirmed