As far as I’m concerned, A Certain Smile, A Certain Sadness is essential ’90s indie pop listening. The debut album from the Pacific Northwest band Rocketship has steadily earned a cult following since its release via the seminal label Slumberland in 1996, although it’s been out of print for years. This year, Rocketship are celebrating […]
GWAR Cover “Pink Pony Club”
A.V. Undercover, the A.V. Club’s series in which bands were invited to be filmed performing a cover chosen from an ever-dwindling list of pre-selected songs, is one of the great blog-era video franchises. It went away in the 2010s, but new ownership brought it back with a vengeance in 2024, starting with GWAR covering “I’m […]
Harry Styles Announces New Album Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally
Big-deal pop stars love announcing their returns and unveiling their new albums at the beginning of the year, and now we’ve got another one. Vaguely feline clothes-horse heartthrob Harry Styles is coming back on March 6 with a new LP called Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally, a frankly very irritating title. (That’s six words, […]
Djo Gets Big Stranger Things Streaming Bump, Denies There’s A Secret Ninth Episode Because Finale Was So Bad
Hunky actor Joe Keery was a member of the band Post Animal when he was cast as Steve Harrington on Stranger Things in 2016. Since 2019, Keery has been making music under the name Djo. He released his song “End Of Beginning” in 2022, and it became a viral hit and reached the Hot 100 […]
Mosswood Meltdown Announces 2026 Lineup With Iggy Pop, Bikini Kill, Sleater-Kinney & Fred Armisen’s Ramones Tribute, & More
Earlier this month, Oakland’s Mosswood Meltdown teased their 2026 iteration by announcing that Pavement, Wednesday, and Vivian Girls would be playing the pre-party, which is an incredibly stacked lineup for a pre-party. Today the John Waters-hosted festival has revealed its full lineup for this July, which includes Iggy Pop, Bikini Kill, Sleater-Kinney (with Fred Armisen, […]
By Storm Announce Debut Album My Ghosts Go Ghost: Hear “And I Dance”
By Storm are a group born out of tragedy. Six years ago, Jordan Groggs, a member of the experimental rap trio Injury Reserve, suddenly passed away at the age of 32. In 2023, surviving Injury Reserve members RiTchie and Parker Corey announced that they would keep making music under a new name, calling themselves By […]
Michelle Branch Covers Turnstile
Turnstile are everywhere to me. When I close my eyes, it’s them I see. Elton John loves them. Miguel loves them. And now, I guess Michelle Branch loves them, too. Today, pop veteran Branch, of “All You Wanted” and “still being married to Patrick Carney” fame, posted a tender piano cover of Turnstile’s “Never Enough,” […]
Teyana Taylor Explains Leonardo DiCaprio’s KPop Kiki-ing
“Teyana Taylor! Who’s hotter than you right now?” asked Jimmy Fallon when the multi-hyphenate star sat down on the Tonight Show couch Wednesday night. It’s a fair question. Taylor just won a Golden Globe for her performance in One Battle After Another. Escape Room, her first album in five years, is nominated for a Grammy. […]
Chewing On Gumm
Fuck it, we’re doing this again. The monthly hardcore column is back. For those who don’t know, I wrote a monthly hardcore column for about five years, and I stopped doing it last year. But I missed doing it, so now it’s back. This month’s edition is a freebie, but it’ll be members-only after this […]
A. G. Cook – “Offscreen”
Charli XCX has a new record coming out, and it’s a soundtrack album, but it’s not the soundtrack album to her movie. Instead, Charli made an LP’s worth of tracks for Emerald Fennell’s new Wuthering Heights adaptation, and both movie and soundtrack drop next month. Meanwhile, regular Charli collaborator A. G. Cook also has a […]