Daily Edit | Jan 15

WU LYF‘s story is like very few others. Their 2011 debut album Go Tell Fire to the Mountain turned them into one of the buzz bands of the moment, but they broke up just one year after its release. But instead of fading away into the memories of those who remember all the indie buzz bands of the early 2010s, the legend of WU LYF grew, mostly because Go Tell Fire to the Mountain is a genuinely great album that always deserved the hype. And maybe the rise of the UK’s new art rock generation had something to do with it too–black midi, for example, have been compared to WU LYF more than once.

[Their new single is] an epic 11-minute song produced by Sonic Boom that goes through a handful of changes and really earns its lengthy runtime. It doesn’t sound like the work of a “reunion” band; it sounds like a band that’s as hungry in 2026 as WU LYF were 15 years ago. -Brooklyn Vegan

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Headlines

• Bandcamp becomes the first major music platform to ban AI content [The Verge]
  

• Artist manager Adam ‘Ash’ Harrison launches record label via 10K/Atlantic [Billboard Pro]
  

• Music streaming platforms now host quarter of a BILLION tracks. Where does it end? [MBW]
  

• Rough Trade reveals 50th anniversary plans including subscription for vinyl exclusives [Music Week]
  

• Fender reimagines the digital studio with new software and hardware ecosystem [HYPEBEAST]
  

• A day with David Bowie: how a visit to a psychiatric clinic changed him – and his music [The Guardian]
  

• You don’t actually like music [Michigan Daily]

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