From 2003-2012, the New Jersey music festival known as the Bamboozle emerged as a showcase for the rising-and-then-cresting MySpace emo wave, and it was successful enough to spin off sister festivals and the touring Bamboozle Roadshow. (Our own Tom Breihan reflected on his experience at the 2006 edition of the festival in a column a […]
Garbage – “Cities In Dust” (Siouxsie And The Banshees Cover)
Garbage’s contribution to last weekend’s Record Store Day festivities was a new EP called Witness To Your Love. The record backed Garbage’s 2008 rarity “Witness To Your Love” with three previously unreleased tracks: a pair of originals called “Blue Betty” and “Adam And Eve,” both culled from the sessions for 2021’s No Gods, No Masters, […]
Harry Styles And Tom Cruise Ushered James Corden’s Late Late Show Into Final, Blissful Silence
Breathe. You’re OK. It’s done. It’s over. Great Britain’s most insufferable musical-theater dork will no longer darken the American airwaves. We can all pretend the last eight years were a disturbing hallucination, like we all took tainted shrooms and then fell asleep watching Glee highlights on YouTube. There will be no more James Corden Late […]
XTC’s Andy Partridge Has A New Band Called The 3 Clubmen — Hear Their Debut Single “Aviatrix”
Recently, while reflecting on how nice a Kate Bush-style viral comeback would be, XTC’s Andy Partridge said he no longer writes new songs and is “waiting for my music mojo to return, in between researching UFO events.” I guess his music mojo returned? Patridge has a new band called the 3 Clubmen, and their debut […]
Kim Fowley’s Estate Sued By Runaways Songwriter For Sexual Assault Of Minor
The Runaways songwriter Kari Krome (real name Cari Lee Mitchell) has sued the estate of Kim Fowley and the former KROQ DJ Rodney Bingenheimer for sexual assault of a minor. As Rolling Stone reports, Mitchell filed her lawsuit anonymously late last year before California’s Child Victims Act was set to expire, and this week amended […]
Pinegrove Will Exist “On A More Casual Basis” Following Drummer & Co-Founder Zack Levine’s Departure
Pinegrove aren’t breaking up, but they aren’t going to be a fulltime concern anymore either. The band announced today that drummer Zack Levine, who cofounded Pinegrove with singer-guitarist Evan Stephens Hall, has decided to leave the band. The remaining members have used his departure as a catalyst to pursue some other projects of their own, […]
We’ve Got A File On You: Daniel Ash
We’ve Got A File On You features interviews in which artists share the stories behind the extracurricular activities that dot their careers: acting gigs, guest appearances, random internet ephemera, etc. On the Mount Rushmore of Goth, Bauhaus shine darkly right along their colleagues in black the Cure, Joy Division, and Siouxsie And The Banshees. Few […]
Kassa Overall – “The Lava Is Calm”
Next month, Kassa Overall will release a new album, ANIMALS, via his new label home, Warp Records. We’ve already heard singles “Ready To Ball” and “Make My Way Back Home” featuring Nick Hakim and trumpeter Theo Croker. Now, Kassa has another new single, “The Lava Is Calm,” and it also features Croker, plus Brazilian-inspired guitar […]
Colter Wall – “Evangelina” (Hoyt Axton Cover)
The Battle Creek, Saskatchewan country traditionalist Colter Wall has a new album on the way. Little Songs, out in July, mostly comprises originals: “I penned most of them from home and I think the songs reflect that,” Wall writes in a press release, presumably alluding to COVID lockdowns and so forth. However, the lead single […]
Watch Dudu Tassa & Jonny Greenwood Perform “Ya Mughir al-Ghazala” With Karrar Alsaadi
Israeli musician Dudu Tassa and Jonny Greenwood (Radiohead and the Smile guitarist, olive oil magnate) announced their collaborative album Jarak Qaribak earlier in April. Out June 9, it is produced by Tassa and Greenwood and mixed by Radiohead favorite Nigel Godrich. They’ve already shared a lead single — “Ashufak Shay” featuring Lebanese vocalist Rashid al-Najjar […]