One band absolutely dominated the hardcore conversation this year, and they did it by working way, way harder than anyone else. Affable Boston bruisers Haywire spent 2025 playing sweaty, cathartic, extremely fun live shows in every VFW Hall and skate park from sea to shining sea. Within 12 months, they rocked venues in all 50 […]

Billie Eilish’s latest collab is with James Cameron. Over the summer during one of her concerts in Manchester, Eilish told the audience that she was working on an exciting new project, and though she wasn’t allowed to say too much about it at the time, the abundance of movie cameras in the venue was a […]

Time was you couldn’t go a day without hearing about the electronic-leaning English art-rock band alt-J, but they’ve kept relatively quiet since the release of 2022’s The Dream. It turns out Joe Newman, whose gnarled Dave-Matthews-as-a-goblin vocals contributed to alt-J’s unique signature sound, has been spending some of that time working on his debut solo […]