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Film Review: ‘The Best Summer’ is a bittersweet time capsule of alternative music’s golden age

There is something almost unbelievable about The Best Summer. What began as footage shot casually by filmmaker Tamra Davis while accompanying the Summersault festival around Australia in 1995 and 1996 has…

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Track: Kim Gordon Drops ‘PLAY ME’ Title Track and Maps the Collapse of Culture in Real Time

Kim Gordon’s PLAY ME doesn’t just soundtrack the present, it interrogates it, threading together AI anxiety, cultural decay and dark humour into a restless, shape-shifting record that refuses easy answers.

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Track: Kim Gordon Confronts AI Anxiety on New Single ‘DIRTY TECH’

Kim Gordon’s ‘DIRTY TECH’ wrestles with the uneasy power shift between humans and machines, setting the tone for her upcoming album PLAY ME with grit, tension and dark clarity.

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News: Kim Gordon Sets Spring Dates Following PLAY ME Album Announcement

Kim Gordon has announced UK and European headline and festival dates for spring, following the release of her third solo album PLAY ME, due March 13 on Matador.

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News: Kim Gordon Announces New Album PLAY ME

Kim Gordon will release her third solo album PLAY ME on March 13 via Matador Records, led by the new single NOT TODAY.

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Track: ‘BYE BYE 25!’: Kim Gordon Fights Back With Fierce Political Remix

ADVOCATE. CLIMATE CHANGE. FEMALE. HISPANIC. IMMIGRANTS. INTERSEX. MALE-DOMINATED. MENTAL HEALTH. NON-CONFORMING. TRAUMA. UTERUS. VICTIM. WOMEN. Kim Gordon reads them like a warning siren in ‘BYE BYE 25!’.

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Premiere: Stream Darker Lighter’s massive self-titled debut album

We told you there was more to come from Los Angeles artist Salar Rajabnik, aka Darker Lighter, and here it is: his self-titled debut album. He’s worked with the likes…

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Premiere: Darker Lighter bursts through the clouds on soaring new single ‘Open Up, Sunshine’

He’s done the rounds as a guitar tech for the likes of Kim Gordon and Queens of the Stone Age, and clearly has been struck by inspiration – California’s Salar…

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