On Friday, A$AP Rocky finally released the long-awaited and quite fun Don’t Be Dumb, his first album in almost eight years. On Saturday, he did musical-guest and sketch-cameo duty on SNL. Rocky hasn’t slowed down since then, either. He’s announced an arena tour that’ll take him straight through summer, and he’s got new Pharrell and […]
Oscar Nominations 2026: HUNTR/X, Nick Cave, & Yes, Diane Warren Among Best Song Contenders
The morning has arrived, and this year’s Oscar nominations are finally in the books. This is a music website, though you can obviously feel free to talk about Delroy Lindo finally getting an Oscar nomination or whatever in the comments section. As always, this year’s acting nominations give us plenty of music stuff to discuss. […]
Winston Hightower Announces New Album 100 Acre Wood: Hear “Lay Low”
Winston Hightower has a new album on the way. The Columbus lo-fi institution will release 100 Acre Wood in April on K’s Perennial imprint. That’s the same label that gave us Sharp Pins, but Hightower’s version of lo-fi is not so obviously Beatles-y. Local forebears Times New Viking’s scrappy, melodic art punk is a reference […]
Tinariwen Announce New Album Hoggar: Hear “Sagherat Assani”
Tuareg desert blues greats Tinariwen have been making mind-expanding guitar music for decades; they’re an institution. In a few months, they’ll follow their 2023 album Amatssou with a new LP called Hoggar. They’ll also tour the world, but they can’t play North America because of the current travel ban in place in the US. According […]
Lone Announces New Album Hyperphantasia: Hear “Life Spark”
UK producer Matt Culter has been making playfully psychedelic rave music under the name Lone for nearly two decades. The last Lone album was Always Inside Your Head, and it came out way back in 2021. Since then, though, he’s cranked out singles like “Triton,” “Ascension.png,” and “Sickly, Sweetly Summer Movie.” All of those tracks […]
Lightning Bolt Announce Split LP With OOIOO, Share New Song “CLOUD CORE”
For many years, Providence noise-rock legends Lightning Bolt and experimental Osaka wizards the Boredoms have recognized each other as fellow travelers. I once saw Lightning Bolt open a New York Boredoms show, and let me tell you, that was a good night. Boredoms drummer YoshimiO, whose name you probably recognize from that one Flaming Lips […]
Doll Spirit Vessel Announce New Album Bow: Hear “Kissing My Cup”
Philly indie rockers Doll Spirit Vessel were quiet for a few years after the release of their 2022 album What Stays, but they came back with a new song called “Godless” last month. Now, they’re ready to announce their new LP Bow, and they’re sharing a tangled, wearily energetic new song called “Kissing My Cup.” […]
United Blood 2026 Lineup Has Speed, Foundation, Agnostic Front, Breakdown, So Much Hardcore
The Richmond hardcore festival United Blood holds a special place in moshers’ hearts, and it was fondly missed when the organizers decided to stop doing the fest after COVID forced the cancellation of the 2020 edition. Last year, though, United Blood came back for the first time in six years, selling out Richmond’s bigass Canal […]
Giallo Announce Debut Album Tenebrarum: Hear “Sleepwalking” & “Teeth Of Glass”
The latest album announcement from Colorado hardcore institution Convulse Records comes from Giallo. The band hails from Minneapolis, where a lot of unspeakable atrocities have been taking place lately. And though debut album Tenebrarum was presumably recorded before ICE made the Twin Cities something like a war zone, advance tracks “Sleepwalking” (96 seconds, real crazy) […]
Adult DVD – “Real Tree Lee”
You’re not gonna believe this, but there’s a new ruggedly artsy post-punk band out of Britain. The Leeds combo Adult DVD have announced their signing to Fat Possum today with the release of the intense (and intensely likable) new single “Real Tree Lee.” Over top of a post-DFA backing track built around a relentless strobing […]