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As the era of conscious backpack rap fades, Brian Immanuel’s debut “Amen” hints at a new wave of overly-self-conscious, Internet-savvy fanny pack rap.

Commemorating Animal Collective’s earnest stab at moving popular rock music forward and the nine bands that should be dictating the sounds of 2018.

Counting off five Hammers that are just so hyped.

Ruben Zarate’s surf pop project teases their yet-unannounced sophomore album with a new R&B-leaning single.

DC punk’s holiest emissaries belt out the cut from last year’s “Nothing Feels Natural.”

Just when you thought you could pigeonhole Ty Segall into just one entire decade of music.

Somewhere between Cage’s LaBeouf-directed “I Never Knew You” video and Brockhampton’s formation on a Kanye forum, something shifted. That something was almost definitely “Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell.”

The sludgy Boston three-piece offers up another preview of their forthcoming “Universal Care.”

With the backing of his Freedom Band, the insatiable riffer introduces his caustic anthem to the bright Oregon sun.

With a return to the OCS ethos, “Memory of a Cut Off Head” is a full house notably lacking a garage.

The West Coast garage rock icon goes solo for Dan Auerbach’s Easy Eye Sound label on the forthcoming “Rod for Your Love,” grows nostalgic in video for first single.

Biography, allegory, and satire give voice to a severely misunderstood entity.

What we can learn about obsession, voyeurism, and coaxploitation from watching Jimmy Stewart watch TV.

Max Clarke teases his debut EP as Cut Worms.

Stuart Hyatt’s chiropteran (look it up) eighth album in the Field Works series arrives May 1.

Please join us March 8 at 5 p.m. for a special evening of food, drinks, screenings, and music in honor…

Roy Choi talks with Evan Kleiman, host of KCRW’s “Good Food.”