In recent years, awards shows have taken somewhat incoherent positions on controversial, problematic figures. The country star Morgan Wallen, for instance, remains extremely popular after he was caught on video screaming a racial slur outside his house late one night. Last year, Wallen got prominent nominations at the CMA Awards and the American...

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Featuring members of Crowning, Itto, Ikaray, Snuffed, Shrivel Up, and Cloud Cruiser, Chicago’s Greed Worm play a harsh, brutal, violently burly form of music they call “NU-DEATH SLUDGE.” This is insanely heavy and volatile stuff, and on their new Hell Is Real EP they’ve laced it with samples implicitly cri...

For a moment there, it seemed like Everything Was Beautiful might never exist. In 2018, Jason Pierce returned with the eighth Spiritualized album, And Nothing Hurt. It was his first in six years, and he promptly spent its rollout saying it could very well be the last. Artists sometimes say stuff like that, and it’s easy to brush it off. But wh...

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