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Daft Punk called it quits a few years ago. That said, we’ve been seeing a lot of them lately. Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo is on the new Rosalía album, Daft Punk’s Interstella 5555 anime had a one-night theatrical run last year, and the “Daft Punk Experience” recently hit Fortnite.

Speaking of the latter, Fortnite developer Epic Games just partnered with Daft Punk and Magnopus for a new video for “Contact,” the closing track from Random Access Memories. It stars the iconic robot duo drifting through space and navigating environments that look like an iTunes visualizer on steroids.

DJ Falcon, a co-producer on the song, said in an interview shared in 2023:

“Basically, we had the track ID, I’d say, 10 years before they went into the studio for Random Access Memories. I remember working at this studio with them, we spent a day working on something, doing some arpeggio to add on the track. I think they were forcing themselves to be in a situation where they had to learn. They keep moving forward all the time. I think it’s part also of the process, to keep experimenting. They’re always searching for some magic moment, and when it’s happening, it’s kind of a release.”

He added of the song causing studio equipment to malfunction, “I remember looking at Thomas [Bangalter], we looked at each other and we just said nothing. We just had a little smile on our face. We left the studio without saying anything like the whole thing was natural.”

Watch the new “Contact” video above.

The nominations for the 2026 Grammy Awards were announced this morning (here’s the full list). Among the most recognized artists is Jack Antonoff, who finds himself all over the list.

Antonoff’s nominations this year are as follows: Album Of The Year for Sabrina Carpenter’s Man’s Best Friend and Kendrick Lamar’s GNX, Record Of The Year for Carpenter’s “Manchild” and Lamar and SZA’s “Luther,” Song Of The Year for “Manchild” and “Luther,” and Best Rap Song for Lamar’s “TV Off” featuring Lefty Gunplay. He contributed to Man’s Best Friend and GNX, but is not listed as a nominee with those projects in the Best Pop Vocal Album and Best Rap Album categories, per the Recording Academy’s official list of nominations. So, Antonoff’s count this year is seven nominations, which ties him for the second-highest total this year with Lady Gaga and Cirkut.

This consideration comes with some implications. Most notably, Antonoff is now the first-ever producer/songwriter to earn nominations in all three major categories — Album Of The Year, Song Of The Year, and Record Of The Year — with two different artists in the same year. This is the fourth time Antonoff has been nominated in all three categories, and no other producer/songwriter has even done it more than twice.

The 2026 Grammy Awards ceremony is set to take place on February 1, 2026, live at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, airing on CBS and Paramount Plus.

Find the nominees for the categories in which Antonoff is nominated below, and check out the full list of 2026 Grammy nominations here.

Record Of The Year

Bad Bunny — “DtMF”
Sabrina Carpenter — “Manchild”
Doechii — “Anxiety”
Billie Eilish — “WILDFLOWER”
Lady Gaga — “Abracadabra”
Kendrick Lamar and SZA — “luther”
Chappell Roan — “The Subway”
Rosé and Bruno Mars — “APT.”

Album Of The Year

Bad Bunny — DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS
Justin Bieber — SWAG
Sabrina Carpenter — Man’s Best Friend
Clipse, Pusha T and Malice — Let God Sort Em Out
Lady Gaga — MAYHEM
Kendrick Lamar — GNX
Leon Thomas — MUTT
Tyler, The Creator — CHROMAKOPIA

Song Of The Year

Lady Gaga — “Abracadabra”
Doechii — “Anxiety”
Rosé and Bruno Mars — “APT.”
Bad Bunny — “DtMF”
HUNTR/X: EJAE, Audrey Nuna and REI AMI — “Golden [From ‘KPop Demon Hunters’]”
Kendrick Lamar and SZA — “luther”
Sabrina Carpenter — “Manchild”
Billie Eilish — “WILDFLOWER”

Best Rap Song

Doechii — “Anxiety”
Clipse, Pusha T and Malice Featuring John Legend and Voices Of Fire — “The Birds Don’t Sing”
Tyler, The Creator Featuring GloRilla, Sexyy Red and Lil Wayne — “Sticky”
GloRilla — “TGIF”
Kendrick Lamar Featuring Lefty Gunplay — “tv off”

Billboard‘s recent rule changes sparked a concerned discussion after they resulted in a two-week absence of rap music in the Hot 100 chart’s top 40 for the first time in almost three decades. “Is hip-hop dead?” became a familiar refrain among the culture’s commentators, as they wondered what a lack of top 40 hits meant for the genre in the mainstream.

But today, as the nominations for the 68th Annual Grammy Awards were announced, one thing became clear: You just can’t count rap out, even if it hasn’t had any new streaming hits for a while.

This isn’t the first time hip-hop was prematurely declared dead. You’d think all those Chicken Littles out there clutching their pearls and wringing their hands at the prospect of rap’s lost dominance would recall those times, or that many of the most culturally important rap hits weren’t in the top 40 at their time either. Arguably, many of those hits have outlasted whatever was deemed more popular at the time vis-à-vis cultural relevance, anyway.

But with three of the eight nominees for Album of the Year coming from rappers (Clipse’s Let God Sort ‘Em Out, Kendrick Lamar’s GNX, and Tyler The Creator’s Chromakopia) and rap well-represented in the two of the remaining three Big Four categories, the proof of rap’s continued relevance is in the proverbial pudding.

While Kendrick Lamar is unsurprisingly nominated for both Record and Song of the Year for his SZA duet “Luther,” his former labelmate Doechii is also nominated for both awards (for “Anxiety“) after winning Best New Artist and Best Rap Album at this year’s Grammys in February. Meanwhile, the rap-specific categories feature more women than ever, with Cardi B joining Doechii in the Best Rap Performance field (for “Outside“) and GloRilla also up for Best Rap Song (for “TGIF“). Glo is also nominated alongside Sexyy Red for their features on Tyler The Creator’s “Sticky,” and for Best Rap Album for her debut Glorious.

All of which adds up to a picture of rap that not only looks healthy, but forecasts continued evolution, even if it’s not necessarily mainstream popular. For what it’s worth, each of this year’s nominees are notable for breaking away from mainstream rap trends — less melodic, more lyrically focused, and much more self-aware and narrative-based than some of what’s been popular in the recent past. The concerns of the nominees’ projects are more insular, mature, and reflective than the pop-friendly records that have dominated for the past few decades.

Likewise, underground stalwart JID, who has long been lauded for forging his own thorny path, returned to the Grammys radar with a nomination for Best Rap Album for God Does Like Ugly — his first since 2022’s The Forever Story. Fridayy also continues to be a Grammy favorite after being nominated for Best Rap Song and Performance for appearing on DJ Khaled’s “God Did.” And Rapsody, who won her first Grammy this year for “3:AM” with Erykah Badu in the Best Melodic Rap Performance category, is once again nominated in that category alongside Terrace Martinand Kenyon Dixon for “WeMaj.”

So, no, the sky is not falling for hip-hop. If anything, the disappearance of rap from the top 40 suggest that the genre is more likely entering a chrysalis phase, withdrawing from the pursuit of mainstream approval and going back to its roots, developing out of sight of commercial interests. If anything, when it reemerges as a chart force, it’ll be the best version of itself, unfiltered, unalloyed, and ready to once again revolutionize the music world.

The 2026 Grammy Awards ceremony is set to take place on February 1, 2026, live at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles. The Recording Academy still has plenty to do before then, though. Most notably, there’s the announcement of the nominations, which just happened this morning (November 7).

Notably, there are two new award categories this year: Best Traditional Country Album and Best Album Cover. In a statement at the time of that announcement this summer, Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason Jr. said, “The Academy’s top priority is to represent the music people that we serve each year. That entails listening carefully to our members to make sure our rules and guidelines reflect today’s music and allow us to accurately recognize as many deserving creators as possible. As we kick off another exciting Grammy Season, we look forward to celebrating the amazing power of music and its ability to bring so many people together.”

Find the full list of 2026 Grammy nominees below.

This post is being updated.

After Kehlani’s last single, “Folded,” became her first-ever top ten hit on the Hot 100, the Bay Area native is doubling down on its late-90s R&B vibes with “Out The Window.” Like its predecessor, “Out The Window” finds Kehlani in the aftermath of a dissolved relationship, and contemplating a reunion. However, while in the previous single, Kehlani fought temptation while resolving to move on, in the newer single, she is the one actively pursuing reconciliation.

“Even my mama been asking me ’bout you / I know your mama been asking about me too,” she admits. “But I know I’m to blame / I played in your face, it’s too little, too late.” In the chorus, she begs, “The late nights, the half-truths / I was reckless, let me prove to you / I’ll throw ’em out the window.”

Listen, I told you before: Real R&B is BACK.

Kehlani teased that a new album — the follow-up to her 2024 album Crash — is coming next year in an interview with her daughter Adeya. Although Kehlani hasn’t revealed any further info about the full-length project, judging from her last two singles, it’ll see her return to the 106 & Park vibes of her youth — which could make it sound quite refreshing in the modern landscape.

You can listen to Kehlani’s “Out The Window” above.

Rosalía’s Lux, one of the most hyped albums of the year, is out today (November 7). She calls on a roster of guests to help her out with the project, and it turns out that among them is Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, most notably half of Daft Punk.

He doesn’t have a feature, but he has a songwriting credit on “Reliquia,” a dramatic, string-laden song that undergoes a frenetic transformation during its closing seconds. Credited on the same track is OneRepublic leader and modern pop songwriting great Ryan Tedder. Elsewhere, also featured on the project are Björk, Carminho, Estrella Morente, Sílvia Pérez Cruz, Yahritza y su Esencia, and Yves Tumor.

This notably comes days after an associate said Guy-Manuel is currently working on a solo album.

A press release previously noted of Lux, “The album traces a widescreen emotional arc of feminine mystique, transformation, and transcendence — moving between intimacy and operatic scale to create a radiant world where sound, language, and culture fuse as one.”

Listen to “Reliquia” above. Find the Lux cover art and tracklist below.

Rosalía’s Lux Album Cover Artwork

Rosalía’s Lux Tracklist

MOV I
1. “Sexo, Violencia y Llantas”
2. “Reliquia”
3. “Divinize”
4. “Porcelana”
5. “Mio Cristo”

MOV II
6. “Berghain”
7. “La Perla”
8. “Mundo Nuevo”
9. “De Madrugá”

MOV III
10. “Dios Es Un Stalker”
11. “La Yugular”
12. “Focu ‘ranni” *
13. “Sauvignon Blanc”
14. “Jeanne” *

MOV IV
15. “Novia Robot” *
16. “La Rumba Del Perdón”
17. “Memória”
18. “Magnolias

* exclusive to the CD and vinyl editions

Lux is out now via Columbia. Find more information here.

2025 has been the year of Hayley Williams. This summer, she unloaded a batch of 17 singles, which she later compiled on the album Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party. The project initially had 17 tracks, but Williams has kept adding to it. Now, it’s up to 20 with today’s (November 7) release of “Showbiz.”

On the energetic pop-rocker, Williams sings, “I wanna do it again / I wanna dance in the strobe lights / I wanna choke on the smoke / And feel your eyes on me.”

A couple months ago, Williams addressed rumors of a Paramore break-up, saying, “We always take huge breaks. In order for us to metabolize sh*t that we go through as people, it takes the amount of time it takes between albums.”

Listen to “Showbiz” above and find the Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party cover art and tracklist below.

Hayley Williams’ Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party Album Cover Artwork

Hayley Williams’ Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party Tracklist

1. “Ice In My OJ”
2. “Glum”
3. “Kill Me”
4. “Whim”
5. “Mirtazapine”
6. “Disappearing Man”
7. “Love Me Different”
8. “Brotherly Hate”
9. “Negative Self Talk”
10. “Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party”
11. “Hard”
12. “Discovery Channel”
13. “True Believer”
14. “Zissou”
15. “Dream Girl In Shibuya”
16. “Blood Bros”
17. “I Won’t Quit On You”
18. “Parachute”
19. “Good Ol’ Days”
20. “Showbiz”

Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party is out now via Post Atlantic. Find more information here.

Steven and Ian open with a review of Ian’s recent run of concerts, including Geese’s Halloween show in San Diego. They also do a Sportscast on the upcoming Packers vs. Eagles game, aka The Indeicast Bowl, and a Newscast on the recent Zohran Mamdani victory in New York City and the surprising reaction from (of all people) Ryan Adams. Then they check in on the Fantasy Album Draft, which is stacked this week with albums from Rosalía, Armand Hammer, Brandi Carlile, Florence + The Machine, and Mavis Staples.

From there, they discuss the new supergroup Snocaps composed of Katie and Allison Crutchfield, MJ Lenderman, and Brad Cook, as well as The 1975 removing a song from one of their albums and a new music project from punk icons Ian MacKaye and Henry Rollins. In the weekly “yay or nay” segment, they discuss The Mountain Goats.

In Recommendation Corner, Ian talks about scrappy rock band Tape Trash and Steven talks about British soft-rock singer-songwriter Westerman.

New episodes of Indiecast drop every Friday. Listen to Episode 264 here and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts. You can submit questions for Steve and Ian at [email protected], and make sure to follow us on Instagram and X (formerly Twitter) for all the latest news. We also recently launched a visualizer for our favorite Indiecast moments. Check those out here.

Planning a wedding is both exciting and stressful. You’ll have to make a lot of decisions throughout the process, ranging from choosing a venue to what flowers you want in your bouquet. Another decision you’ll have to make is whether you want to maintain the age-old tradition of wearing a veil.

If you’re not sure whether you want a veil, it’s important to understand its origins and significance, as well as some modern variations, so you can make a more informed decision.

The Origins of the Bridal Veil

Brides have been wearing veils for thousands of years. In Ancient Rome, brides wore red or yellow veils to ward off evil spirits. In Medieval Europe, they were worn to symbolize the chastity and purity of the veil. In Victorian England, white veils became a symbol of wealth, status, and virginity.

Often, the veil was also used to shield the bride’s face from envious or malicious glances.

Modern Trends

Veils can vary in size and color. Some are also embellished with jewels, lace, and more, so that they fit the bride’s individual personality.

Here are a few things to consider:

• • Choose a veil that coordinates with the dress.
  • Be practical – you may want to forego the veil entirely if the wedding is outdoors and you’re afraid it will blow away.
  • If you’re a feminist and don’t believe in being “given away,” you can opt out of the veil.

Veil Alternatives

There are also alternatives to wearing a veil that may suit the mood/theme of your wedding:

Headbands or Tiaras

Elegant and timeless, headbands or tiaras add sparkle and structure, perfect for brides who want a regal touch without a veil.

Floral Crowns

Made with fresh or faux blooms, floral crowns create a romantic, bohemian look that’s ideal for outdoor or garden weddings.

Hair Vines and Combs

These delicate accessories beautifully weave into hairstyles, offering subtle shimmer with crystals, pearls, or small flowers.

Other alternatives to veils include hairpins, fascinators, birdcage veils, headwraps or scarves, and wide-brimmed hats.

It’s Up to You

In the end, planning a wedding means balancing tradition with personal expression. Among the many choices you’ll make—like the venue, flowers, or attire—deciding whether to wear a veil is a deeply personal one. By understanding the veil’s origins, symbolism, and modern alternatives, you can confidently choose a look that feels meaningful and authentic to you on your special day.

Baby wipes may sound like they are just for babies, but they are extremely useful in many other ways. The main reason is that they are already moistened. You can carry them on the go and dispose of them after use.

Most unscented baby wipes are cheap, and there are plenty of package sizes to fit your needs. Many are designed for travel and have resealable lids, too.

Check out these super creative ways to use baby wipes:

1. Clean up a spill around the house or in the car.

Baby wipes are perfect for quick cleanups — whether you’ve spilled coffee on the counter or juice in the car, they lift messes gently without needing soap or water.

 

2. Clean off a dry-erase board in seconds.

Instead of searching for a special eraser or cleaner, a baby wipe easily removes marker residue from a whiteboard, leaving it streak-free.

 

3. Wipe up a paint mistake, whether it’s on a wall, a baseboard, or the floor.

When painting, keep a few wipes nearby; they’re excellent for cleaning small splatters or drips before the paint dries.

 

4. Remove dirt and watermarks from microfiber furniture.

A gentle swipe with a baby wipe can lift light stains, fingerprints, or buildup from microfiber surfaces while keeping the fabric soft and smooth.

 

5. Addressing unforeseen beauty issues

Baby wipes are a beauty lifesaver — they easily remove hair dye from skin, tidy up stray nail polish, and quickly clean spilled makeup products without damaging surfaces.

 

6. Dust house plants, whether they’re real or fake.

Use a baby wipe to gently clean indoor plant leaves, restoring their shine and helping them better absorb light for photosynthesis.

 

7. Kids’ art projects.

Let kids explore creativity by tying up a baby wipe with rubber bands and coloring it with washable markers; once it dries, the wipe reveals a fun, tie-dye design.

 

Now that you know all of these uses for baby wipes, you might want to grab a pack or two the next time you’re at the store. They can be placed in the car and throughout the house so that they’re easily accessible the next time you need to clean something up or keep someone busy.