In a couple of weeks, Helen Ballentine’s hazy-reverie project Skullcrusher will follow 2022’s Quiet The Room with the new album And Your Song Is Like A Circle. We’ve already posted her songs “Exhale,” ...

You probably don’t need me to tell you this, but you should really go see Nine Inch Nails live. Earlier this year, Trent Reznor’s long-running band headed out on their first proper tour in a few years ...

The ridiculously fun Portland pop-punk trio Suzie True will release their new album How I Learned To Love What’s Gone in a few weeks, and you should be fired up about that. Suzie True recorded the LP ...

Atlanta’s Upchuck will share their new Ty Segall-produced album I’m Nice Now this Friday, and judging by the singles we’ve heard so far, it’s shaping up to be a good one. They’ve shared one final ...

Austin-based independent label Western Vinyl has announced a new charity compilation called Passages: Artists In Solidarity With Immigrants Refugees, And Asylum Seekers. Alan Sparkhawk’s contribution ...

Agriculture are about to drop one of the greatest albums of 2025. The Los Angeles ecstatic black metal quartet already outlined the manifold influences for The Spiritual Sound in these very pages. Now ...

When not hopping onstage to sing “West Coast” with a random indie band while out for ice cream, Lana Del Rey has been busy with the kind of online drama that has been a more or less constant subplot ...

Last year, Shane Lavenders released the first Chanel Beads Your Day Will Come to critical acclaim. Now, the trendy New York artist is getting ready to open for Lorde on some of her Ultrasound Tour ...

When the video opens with portentous narration about the last day of high school, you know you’re in for a good time. HighSchool, the duo of ridiculously handsome Australians Rory Trobbiani and Luke ...

In a couple of months, Carlyn Bezic, the Toronto musician who records as Jane Inc., will release A Rupture A Canyon A Birth, a new album partly inspired by the moment that a semi truck plowed into ...

If I was still writing my monthly hardcore column, the rise of Haywire would’ve been a big topic. The Boston band plays an extremely hooky and fun form of down-the-middle fastball hardcore. There’s ...

Over the weekend, the War & Treaty were initially slated to play a charity event for a nonprofit company called Equestrian ...