Over the summer, FUZZ announced III, their first new album in five years. Today, they shared the record’s third single, “Mirror,” along with a pretty creepy music video. The visuals splice footage of the band’s members — Ty Segall, Chad Ubovich and Charles Moothart — rocking out with some bizarre imagery, like Segall eating an eyeball that in turn […]
Eddie Van Halen Guitars, Smashed Kurt Cobain Guitar to Be Auctioned
Two of the late Eddie Van Halen’s iconic guitars — his custom-designed, red-and-white-striped, stage-used 2004 EVH Charvel Art Series, and a black-and-white striped Fender Stratocaster-style headstock numbered on the back #54 — are going on the auction block. Each guitar is estimated to sell between $40,000 – $80,000 at the Icons & Idols Trilogy: Rock ‘N’ […]
Boris & Merzbow Announce Collaborative Album '2R0I2P0', Share New Song "Away With You": Listen
Over the years, Japanese fuzz-metal greats Boris have crossed paths with Masami Akita, the veteran harsh-noise king known as Merzbow, a number of times. Boris and Merzbow are both from Japan, they’re both influential, and they both like to push loud music as far as it can go, so the combination just makes sense. Boris […]
Beastie Boys License Music in Commercial for First Time
While other musical acts have been OK with licensing their music to advertisements, the Beastie Boys were the complete opposite — until now. The hip-hop group allowed the Joe Biden-Kamala Harris campaign to use a snippet of their 1994 track “Sabotage” in an ad that aired during the end of the Pittsburgh Steelers/Cleveland Browns football […]
Pynch – "The Whole World's Going Crazy (For Love)"
The London quartet Pynch worked with Dan Carey on last year’s “Disco Lights,” a single on Carey’s Speedy Wunderground label that traversed multiple layers of nostalgia by evoking retro-minded greats like the Strokes, MGMT, Beach Fossils, the War On Drugs, and LCD Soundsystem. They’ve continued tapping that vein on subsequent singles, including the recent “Somebody […]
Gordon Haskell, Ex-King Crimson Singer/Bassist, Dies at 74
Former King Crimson member Gordon Haskell has died at the age of 74. His death was announced in a brief statement on the musician’s Facebook page on Sunday. “It is with great sadness we announce the passing of Gordon, a great musician and a wonderful person who will be sadly missed by so many,” a […]
Glass Beach – "1015"
The synth/punk/emo Band To Watch Glass Beach have been sharing a smattering of one-off tracks lately, including the rejected Bill & Ted anthem “Running” and a strange reworking of their debut album’s opening track to celebrate hitting 1 million Spotify streams. A couple months back, they also contributed a new one called “1015” to a […]
Album Review: Sasha Sloan’s ‘Only Child’
Sasha Sloan Interview Sadness is Sasha Sloan’s brand. Her staggeringly good debut EP was literally called sad girl, while the followup was christened Loser. It shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise then, that the singer/songwriter’s long-awaited debut LP, Only Child, is a dropkick to the heart. There are songs about loneliness, loss, alienation, […]
Stone Roses’ Ian Brown Refers to Coronavirus as 'Common Cold'
Just days after deleting his tirade of controversial tweets, Ian Brown doubled down on his stance on COVID-19 by referring to the coronavirus as “the common cold.” “If COViD has been isolated why would the OXFORD vax research use a coronavirus from a Chimpanzee?” the former Stone Roses singer tweeted on Sunday. “Has COViD 19 […]
New Music: Rob Markman “On God”
Rob Markman gives his testimony on his latest drop. Anchored by DviousMindz and !llmind’s sound bed, Rob details promises kept and life’s jealousies and betrayal. It’s all in the eyes chico. On God.