Peter Gabriel has kicked off his i/o tour with a show at Poland’s Tauron Arena in Krakow on Thursday night. It’s his first full show in nearly nine years, since he wrapped up his Back To Front tour in 2014. Gabriel’s much-anticipated new album i/o is expected to come out this year, though it still […]
Flavor Flav Is The Latest Musician To Show Up On The Writers Strike Picket Line
Over the past few weeks, striking writers have been visited by many celebrities in solidarity and they’ve gotten performances from Weezer and Imagine Dragons. And on Thursday outside the Warner Bros. studios in Burbank, Flavor Flav showed his support for the Writers Guild Of America by bringing some pizzas and launching into an impromptu playback […]
Blur – “The Narcissist”
Britpop legends Blur, aka the band from before Gorillaz that was better than Gorillaz, announced a smattering of stadium and festival gigs, and it’s been almost two years since Damon Albarn said they “have an idea” for another album. Today, that all adds up to news that makes me want to shout, “Woohoo!” The idea […]
Koyo – “You’re On The List (Minus One)”
A few years ago, a group of Long Island hardcore veterans, many of whom had played in some extremely heavy bands, got together to form Koyo, a band that’s rooted in Long Island’s history of emo, pop-punk, and extremely melodic hardcore. The band released their debut EP Painting Words Into Lines in 2020, and they […]
Velocity Girl Reuniting For First Show In 21 Years At Black Cat 30th Anniversary Weekend
The nightclub known as the Black Cat opened in Washington, DC in 1993. The club was founded by Dante Ferrando, former drummer for post-hardcore greats Gray Matter, and one of its early investors was Dave Grohl, who was still the drummer in Nirvana back then. Ever since, the Black Cat has been a DC institution. […]
Man On Man – “Take It From Me” & “Hush” (Feat. J Mascis)
A couple years ago, boyfriends Roddy Bottum and Joey Holman started making music together as Man On Man, a pandemic-era concern that has already yielded one album, 2021’s self-titled debut, and is about to result in another one, Provincetown, which is out in a couple weeks. They announced it last month with the fuzzily catchy […]
Spanish Love Songs – “Haunted”
LA indie-punk crew Spanish Love Songs have announced a new album, No Joy, coming August 25 via Pure Noise Records. Following 2020’s Brave Faces Everyone, No Joy is produced by the band and Collin Pastore. Today, Spanish Love Songs are sharing the album’s upbeat and shimmery lead single, “Haunted,” which comes with a video directed […]
Fust – “Violent Jubilee” (Feat. Michael Cormier-O’Leary)
Fust is the musical project of Aaron Dowdy, a Ph.D student in literature at Duke, and his pals Frank Meadows, Avery Sullivan, and John Wallace. Based in Durham but formed in Brooklyn, the band plays the sort of crystalline country-rock I associate with Ruston Kelly, Field Report, and other rootsy stuff that seems explicitly designed […]
Knower – “The Abyss”
A couple weeks ago, Louis Cole and Genevieve Artadi announced KNOWER FOREVER, their first full-length project as Knower since 2016’s Life. Lead single “I’m The President” landed on our best songs of the week list and since then Cole also put out an album of solo outtakes. Today, the pair is back with a new […]
Buggin – “Snack Run”
Next month, the seriously kickass Chicago hardcore band Buggin will release their full-length debut Concrete Cowboys, and we’ve already posted their early songs “All Eyes On You” and “Not Yours.” Those tracks show just how forceful and serious Buggin can be. But Buggin can also write a one-minute rage-out about going to 7-11 to buy […]