This past Friday, on what would have been Tom Petty’s 73rd birthday, Amazon Music put out “What’s The Matter With Louise,” a previously unreleased track from the Wildflowers sessions. It coincided with the Prime Video launch of the 2021 documentary Tom Petty, Somewhere You Feel Free: The Making Of Wildflowers, which included some new footage […]
Premature Evaluation: Blink-182 One More Time…
Pop-punk is the new classic rock. I guess this is growing up. One More Time… – the new album by scene elders Blink-182 – arrives at a moment when stock in the genre is at an all-time high, rising from an underdog insurgence on the alternative rock (and pop) charts into a steady dividend-earning period […]
Dave Grohl, Krist Noveselic, & Steve Albini Talk In Utero With Conan O’Brien
In September 1993, the first episode of Late Night With Conan O’Brien aired on NBC. Eight days later, Nirvana released the feverish, conflicted masterpiece In Utero, their third and final album. In Utero just celebrated its 30th anniversary with a box-set reissue, and now Conan O’Brien himself has marked the occasion by assembling the surviving […]
The Comet Is Coming Cancel Farewell Show In Support Of Palestine
The adventurous London jazz trio the Comet Is Coming have been around for a decade, and they released Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam, their third album, last year. In May, the group announced plans to break up: “We will return when the stars align and the planet needs us.” Bandleader Shabaka Hutchings says that he’s “taking a […]
Shower Curtain – “Edgar”
In 2018, Shower Curtain was born as a solo project of Victoria Winter in Curitiba, Brazil. Since then, it’s become a quartet based in Brooklyn, New York. They have several EPs under their belt, and now they have a memorable new song titled “Edgar.” The track is a lingering blast of poignant shoegaze about mourning; […]
Stream Ho99o9’s Surprise Territory: Turf Talk, Vol II Mixtape Feat. HEALTH, Armand Hammer, JPEGMAFIA, Eyedress, & More
It’s almost Halloween — the perfect time for the return of Ho99o9, who’ve been quiet since their Travis Barker-produced sophomore album SKIN last year. The Newark group has surprise released the mixtape Ho99o9 Presents Territory: Turf Talk, Vol II., which has an impressive roster of guests. Armand Hammer, JPEGMAFIA, HEALTH, N8NOFACE, and Eyedress are only […]
beabadoobee & Laufey – “A Night To Remember”
This year, Beabadoobee has shared “Glue Song” and “The Way Things Go,” two emotionally charged ballads — the former romantic and endearing, the latter furious and sharp. Today, she’s back with “A Night To Remember,” a jazzy love song with the rising Icelandic-Chinese jazz singer Laufey. Read what Beabadoobee said about the cinematic song: “I’ve […]
Rid Of Me – “The Weekend”
We are almost — almost — to the Halloween-week release date for Rid Of Me’s Access To The Lonely. The Philly rockers have shared an abundance of advance singles, though not quite as many as Peter Gabriel. Today, they’ve shared one more. The final single is called “The Weekend,” and I guess it qualifies as […]
Jay-Z & Eminem Producer DJ Mark The 45 King Dead At 62
Mark Howard James, the DJ and producer best known as DJ Mark The 45 King, has died. His friend DJ Premier broke the news with a heartfelt tribute today on Instagram. No cause of death was revealed. Mark was 62. Mark was born in the Bronx in 1961. He rose to prominence as a producer […]
Watch Wednesday’s Documentary Rat Bastards Of Haw Creek
So much of North Carolina indie rockers Wednesday’s appeal is their vivid imagery of the South: open fields, billboards on the sides of roads, a burned down Dairy Queen. The sweat-slicked, buggy aura of the summer blazes through their songs, especially on the visceral Rat Saw God, our favorite album of the year’s first half. […]