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Songs That Shaped Me: Noah Cyrus’ Favorite ‘70s Songs

Cyrus gets much of her musical inspiration from her family, particularly her dad. I asked her to dig through her childhood memories and record collection to pick the songs of the ’70s — and a few just beyond — that influenced her songwriting.

South Arcade: Press Play Forever

South Arcade is moving fast, but they are not running blindly — building something in transit while refusing to wait for "arrival" before they start playing.

Music Discovery of the Month: Sydney Ross Mitchell

Texas-born singer-songwriter Sydney Ross Mitchell reflects on her culture-shocking move from a deeply religious small town to Los Angeles, and how that tension between two very different worlds fueled the intimate, healing, and richly cinematic songs on her stunning new EP Cynthia.

Rico Nasty By Nature

On Lethal, her most self-assured album yet, she channels that instinct into a bold statement about standing alone, shedding approval-seeking, and reclaiming her power.

Controlled Chaos: The Rise of Die Spitz

Blending punk, metal, and hard rock without regard for genre or expectation, Die Spitz are intent on being heard on their own terms. As they ready their Third Man debut, the Austin band is less concerned with labels than with making an album that moves, surprises, and hits as hard as their live shows.

Peter Hook Looks Back at 40 Years of Low-Life

Forty years after the release of New Order’s seminal album Low-Life, co-founder and bassist Peter Hook calls it “the only true New Order record” – the moment the band truly honed their sound. “We were forming it on Power, Corruption & Lies, we had it for Low-Life, and on Brotherhood it started coming apart,” Hook…

Our Favorite Music Discoveries of 2026

With more music coming out than ever before, talent is abundant out there. The issue both artists and listeners face is how to find each other. We are more than happy to help. At the new Hit Parader, music discovery will be a huge part of what we do because, for me, discovering a new…