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 […]
Photos And Stories From Woodstock That Show Its Miserable Side
August 1969’s Woodstock Festival was nothing short of legendary. With an epic lineup that included everyone from Jimi Hendrix to the Grateful Dead, the festival has gone down in history as one of the most iconic events of 1960’s youth counterculture and set a precedent for epic music festivals that we have today. But “Three […]
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. […]
These Movies Almost Destroyed Actors’ Careers
Hollywood is a fickle place where one misstep can end a person’s career. There are many actors who’ve made bad films here and there, but some have starred in such terrible movies that they struggled to recover and find work ever again. From Hayden Christensen’s unpopular role in Star Wars to Mike Myers’ Love Guru […]
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 […]