In 2021, the Massachusetts heavy hardcore band Adrienne crushed a whole lot of skulls with their self-titled debut EP. Adrienne’s sound has the intensity and dynamic range that bands like Integrity introduced in the ’90s. They’re ominous and brutal at the same time, and they radiate total sincerity in their riff-crunch freakouts. I haven’t seen […]
Ghost Train Orchestra & Kronos Quartet Announce New Moondog Tribute Album Feat. Jarvis Cocker, Rufus Wainwright, Marissa Nadler, & More
Ghost Train Orchestra and Kronos Quartet have arranged a Moondog tribute album, Songs And Symphoniques: The Music Of Moondog, which will be released on September 29. “The first Moondog record I heard was the 1969 orchestra record simply titled Moondog,” Ghost Train Orchestra’s Brian Carpenter said in a statement. “Its cover featured a very striking […]
Mac Krol (Mike Krol & Mac McCaughan) – “For Some Other Reason”
Mike Krol and Mac McCaughan have teamed up for a new project called Mac Krol, and they’re releasing a 7-inch featuring three songs that they worked on together next month via Merge. The songs have a long history: Krol started them back in 2015 when he was recording Turkey with his band but soon discarded […]
Kelsea Ballerini Hit In The Eye With Friendship Bracelet Onstage In Boise
The plague of throwing weird shit onstage at concerts continues. A few months ago, country superstar Kane Brown got nailed in the nuts with a thrown cowboy boot while performing in Wichita. Then there was Bebe Rexha taking a phone to the eye in New York, and people tossing their dead mother’s ashes and a […]
Anjimile – “Father”
In September, Anjimile will release his first full-length since 2020’s Giver Taker. The indie-folk performer has already shared the lead single and title track from The King, and today he’s following that up with “Father” featuring guitar by Brad Allen William. “I wrote this song with my parents in mind as a sort of gesture […]
Michigan Turns 20
The Sufjan Stevens catalog has no shortage of mind-bendingly proggy moments, many of them on the 2010 album The Age Of Adz, one of the most formidable works of auteurist excess of the 21st century. Yet my favorite of all of them comes during “Oh Detroit, Lift Up Your Weary Head! (Rebuild! Restore! Reconsider!),” one […]
Grian Chatten – “All Of The People”
Grian Chatten, the lead singer for Fontaines D.C., is releasing his solo debut album Chaos For The Fly on the last day of June. We’ve already covered singles “The Score,” “Fairlies” (which he played for his solo TV debut on Later… With Jools Holland), and “Last Time Every Time Forever.” Today, we’re getting one more […]
Casanova Sentenced To More Than 15 Years In Prison
Brooklyn rapper Casanova, born Caswell Senior, has been sentenced to 188 months in prison on gang-related racketeering and narcotics charges. According to a press release from the US Department of Justice, Casanova had a leadership role in the Untouchable Gorilla Stone Nation Bloods Gang, or Gorilla Stone for short. This led to his involvement in […]
The Clientele – “Claire’s Not Real”
In April, the Clientele announced a new album, I Am Not There Anymore, which is out at the end of next month. We’ve already heard “Blue Over Blue” and “Dying In May,” and today the UK band’s back with “Claire’s Not Real.” Singer/guitarist Alasdair MacLean describes of the latest single: “I was in Cercedilla in […]
Kid Cudi Cancels Moon Man’s Landing Festival: “The City Didn’t Approve It”
Kid Cudi plays a lot of music festivals, but music festivals aren’t always kind to Cudi. Last year, when Cudi headlined Rolling Loud as a last-minute replacement for his frienemy Kanye West, he left the stage early because fans wouldn’t stop throwing bottles at him. This summer, Cudi was scheduled to headline his own Moon […]