Next week, High On Fire are releasing a new album, Cometh The Storm, their first full-length since 2018’s Electric Messiah. They shared lead single “Burning Down” from it back in February, and today they’re sharing the album’s second single and title track. “‘Cometh the Storm’ was built from a riff I started playing on bass […]
Andrew Bird Trio Shares Two Tracks From New Jazz Standards Album
In the past couple of years, Andrew Bird has teamed up with Rufus Wainwright and Chris Stills for a Neil Young cover and collaborated with Phoebe Bridgers for “I Felt A Funeral, In My Brain.” Today, the indie rock multi-instrumentalist, singer, and songwriter announced Sunday Morning Put-On, an album of classic jazz covers releasing through […]
Watch Blur Play “Fool’s Day” Live For The First Time At Coachella Warmup Gig
Before last night, Britpop legends Blur hadn’t played on American soil in nine years. Just a few months ago, Damon Albarn said that he was finished with the Blur reunion, at least for now. That turned out to be a misdirect. This weekend, Blur will play Coachella in very prominent spot. On Saturday, they’ll play […]
Watch Vampire Weekend Join Goose For 30+ Minute “Cape Cod” Jam In New York
Since entering jam band-adjacent territory with Father Of The Bride, Vampire Weekend have kept up a relationship with the modern-day jam band Goose. They got them to cover “2021” back in 2021, and that cover and a version of “Big Blue” have occasionally popped up in Goose’s sets over the past couple of years. Last […]
GIFT – “Wish Me Away”
In 2022, the NYC band GIFT released their debut album Momentary Presence, a set of shimmery and psychedelic songs that sometimes raced ahead with the propulsive post-punk/krautrock momentum of bands like DIIV. Today they announced that they’ve signed to Captured Tracks for the next one. We don’t have new album details yet, but new single […]
KRM & KMRU – “Differ”
Kevin Richard Martin, aka the Bug, and Joseph Kamaru, aka the ambient musician KMRU, have teamed up for a new collaborative project under the name KRM & KMRU, taking advantage of their similar initials and their admiration for each other’s music. Their debut album together, Disconnect, will be out in June. They already have an […]
Hear Alan Vega’s “Mercy” From Previously Unreleased ’90s Album Insurrection
Alan Vega, the singing half of the massively important New York synth-punk duo Suicide, passed away in 2016. Vega released a handful of solo albums in the ’90s, returning to the minimal electronic music that he’d made with Suicide, and he left behind more recordings that never came out. In 2021, the lost Vega solo […]
Next Week’s Grateful Dead Cover Band Festival Canceled With No Refunds
Traditionally, the Ventura, CA music festival Skull & Roses brings together a bunch of Grateful Dead cover bands for a full weekend celebrating the legacy of Jerry Garcia and friends. The sixth annual installment was to take place next weekend, April 19-21, with headliners Dark Star Orchestra and an undercard filled with many more Dead […]
Philly Metalcore Band This Day Forward Announce First Shows In Over 20 Years
Philly’s This Day Forward are back. The metalcore crew haven’t released a new album since their 2003 Equal Vision debut In Response, and today they’re announcing their first shows in 20 years. This Day Forward will be performing at Philly’s Underground Arts on August 24, and then New York’s Bowery Ballroom on August 25. About […]
Newport Jazz Festival Announces 2024 Lineup
Newport Jazz Festival has revealed its 2024 lineup. Top-billed artists include André 3000, Nile Rodgers & Chic, Kamasi Washington, Elvis Costello, Laufey, Robert Glasper, Brittany Howard, and Cory Wong. Dinner Party, the supergroup made up of Glasper, Washington, and Terrace Martin, is playing — Martin is also doing a set with Calvin Keys. Also performing […]