Music albums, bands, musicians and songs featured and reviewed.
Elvis Presley on the Milton Berle Show, June 5, 1956
5 June 2026 @ 12:00 am
On this day in 1956, Elvis Presley made his historic appearance on The Milton Berle Show, his second time on the program. The King's magnetism is on full display, as he relaxes the tempo and turns "Hound Dog" into something close to a strip tease bump-and-grind, which delighted his young fans and scandalized the nation.
Classical Highlights for May 2026
2 June 2026 @ 12:00 am
This past month there seemed to be a sizeable amount of very good keyboard music, as well as opera or opera-adjacent recordings. Nikolai Lugansky (pictured) gives masterful readings of three of Schumann's large piano compositions, while harpsichordist Pierre Gallon selects pieces to accompany the nighttime hours before dawn, and Claire Huangci plays music by German and American female composers.
Ranking the Neil Young Albums from His First Decade
12 May 2026 @ 12:00 am
Author Daniel de Visé walks on through the first 10 studio albums (and one live album) that make up Neil Young's first Decade (more or less). Where does Harvest rank against Rust Never Sleeps? And how do relatively underground releases like Zuma and On The Beach fit in? Let's take a Journey Through the Past.
Classical Highlights for April 2026
5 May 2026 @ 12:00 am
Our new reviewers have been thrown into the vast world of new Classical recordings and are finding their footings. Some of the highlights they found this month include literature-inspired music by composer-conductor Daníel Bjarnson, performed by the Iceland Symphony Orchestra.
Thurston Moore on New Collaboration With Bonner Kramer and Sonic Youth's Early Years
29 April 2026 @ 12:00 am
Thurston Moore discusses how his project with highly collaborative musician, producer, and songwriter Kramer finally took place, and goes into detail about the early years of Sonic Youth, guitar, and an appreciation of a certain classic rock band's early work (which may surprise you).
Five Star Spotlight: The Postal Service - 'Give Up'
21 April 2026 @ 12:00 am
We recently went though a pass of revisiting classic albums and bumping a deserving handful to five stars. Among these reclassified records is a sweetly quiet indie-electronic milestone with a charming origin story. Check out this Five Star Spotlight.
The New Class of 5-Star AllMusic Albums
13 April 2026 @ 12:00 am
From time to time, our editors go over the albums that may have come up in the estimation of the listeners, or made a larger impact on the genre than was initially received upon its' debut. The albums are re-evaluated and some get bumped up to the coveted 5-star rating. We asked our writers to pick out some of their favorites from this recent pass, and to tell us a bit about their reasoning.
Pearl Jam's Mike McCready on His New Graphic Novel, Classic Grunge, and His Heavy Metal Roots
7 April 2026 @ 12:00 am
Guitarist, songwriter, and now author Mike McCready talked to AllMusic about his new graphic novel "Farewell to Seasons" which imagines an alternate history to the Seattle music scene.
Classical Highlights for March 2026
1 April 2026 @ 12:00 am
We're back with classical music reviews! Thank you all for the kind and supportive messages after the passing of James Manheim last October; they were very appreciated. We've brought on a couple of new writers, and among their first pieces is an evaluation of Hans Zender's orchestration and elaboration of Schubert's Winterreise, sung by tenor Allan Clayton (pictured) with the Aurora Orchestra.
The Violent Femmes' Gordon Gano Discusses Misunderstood Songs and Unexpected Influences
24 March 2026 @ 12:00 am
Frontman Gordon Gano spoke with AllMusic about the Violent Femmes' ongoing anniversary shows, the surprising ways fans interpret his lyrics, and why some of the group's darkest songs receive the biggest reactions live.
Snapchat is restricting how its youngest users share video. From this week, Snapchatters aged 13 to 15 will get a dedicated profile where their Stories and short-form Spotlight clips are visible only to mutually accepted friends, and will no longer be pushed to the wider public on Spotlight. Until now, under-16s could post to Spotlight, […]
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Poetic, an AI startup that has been operating in stealth, has emerged with $50M in funding and a $500M valuation to automate some of finance’s most sensitive back-office work, from insurance underwriting to compliance and fraud checks. Its backers include OpenAI, Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, and Kleiner Perkins. The company was founded by Markie Wagner, […]
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Aryon Security, an Israeli cloud-security startup, has raised $29M in a Series A round to push a prevention-first approach to securing the cloud. The round, which the company says brings its total funding to $38M, was led by US-based Brightmind Partners. The investor list is the headline. Shlomo Kramer’s Skinos Ventures, Datadog, Blumberg Capital, and […]
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Capsa AI, a London and New York startup building what it calls an “AI operating system” for private capital, has raised $18M in Series A funding. The round was co-led by TX Ventures and Pivot Investment Partners, with participation from Bek Ventures, and takes the company’s total raised to $20M. Every existing institutional backer reinvested, […]
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The European Central Bank quietly moved to rein in Revolut last year, restricting Europe’s most valuable fintech from launching new products across the European Economic Area over concerns about how fast it approved them, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday. The intervention had not been disclosed before. The ECB paused Revolut’s European arm from releasing […]
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Rivvun AI, a Seattle-based startup founded by former senior executives at contract management platform Icertis, has raised $7.55 million in an oversubscribed seed round co-led by Sitara Capital and 3one4 Capital. The company is building what it calls an autonomous AI execution layer that sits between enterprise systems and recovers money lost in the gap […]
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Meta has agreed to lease a 168-megawatt, AI-ready data centre in India from Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries, its first such facility in the country. Reliance will build the site in Jamnagar, Gujarat, and Meta will lease it with an option to scale, the companies said on Tuesday. “This world-class facility in Jamnagar will help us […]
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TensorWave, a cloud provider that runs its AI data centres on AMD chips rather than Nvidia’s, has raised $350M in a Series B round led by AMD and the hedge fund Magnetar Capital. The deal values the Las Vegas startup at $1.55bn. That is nearly four times the roughly $400M valuation it carried a year […]
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SK Hynix is preparing to list in the United States in a deal that could raise as much as $14bn as soon as August, according to people familiar with the plan. The Korean memory maker has made a confidential filing for American depositary receipts, and the US Securities and Exchange Commission is expected to review […]
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The 2026 World Cup is rolling out two layers of technology that most of its 10 million visitors will actually touch: a consumer-AI layer led by Google, and a biometric-identity layer that turns a fan’s face into a ticket. This is the quieter half of the tournament’s tech, the half aimed at fans rather than […]
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What Is Claude? by Gideon Lewis-Kraus - Researchers at the company are trying to understand their A.I. system’s mind—examining its neurons, running it through psychology experiments, and putting it on the therapy couchAmerica Isn’t Ready for What AI Will Do to Jobs by Josh Tyrangiel - Does anyone have a plan for what happens next?
Is the U.S. Ready for the Next War? by Dexter Filkins - With global conflicts increasingly shaped by drones and A.I., the American military risks losing its dominancePutin has Redrawn the World - But Not the Way He Wanted by Allan Little - We are living in new and more dangerous timesThe AI-Powered, Totally Autonomous
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