Teenage Halloween are a band from Asbury, New Jersey who make big, hearty, hooks-out punk rock. The band’s style is grand and sincere, and it recalls gruff pop-punk overlords like Hot Water Music and Alkaline Trio, as well as ’90s Jersey greats like Lifetime and the Bouncing Souls. Per their Bandcamp page, Teenage Halloween write […]
Armani Caesar Releases Griselda Records Debut Album 'The Liz': Stream
The Buffalo rap label and crew Griselda Records has been on an absolute tear lately, carving out a mainstream-adjacent space for raw and guttural ’90s-style neck-jerk music. Griselda has also gone into overdrive on releasing new music. Last month, new Griselda recruit Boldy James released The Versace Tape, his first effort for the label. Last […]
Puscifer – "The Underwhelming"
Now that the new Tool and A Perfect Circle albums are out of the way, Maynard James Keenan is back to focusing on Puscifer, the one-time bizarre sideshow that now seems like the project he’s most invested in. The first Puscifer album in five years, Existential Reckoning, is set to drop at the end of […]
Lady Gaga Shares Video for '911'
Lady Gaga’s Chromatica was released back in June. Since then, the album has been mostly applauded and she took home several VMAs last month. Today, Gaga unveiled a short film (or video) for “911” from that album. The clip begins with the singer stuck in the middle of the desert, blindfolded and surrounded by fruit. She follows […]
Napalm Death Release Killer New Album 'Throes Of Joy In The Jaws Of Defeatism': Stream
British extreme-metal veterans Napalm Death are a true rarity: A band that remains vital and beloved, even though they’re decades past their most famous era and even though none of the people currently in the band are original members. Napalm Death were grindcore pioneers back in the ’80s, and they persist as brutalist elder statesmen […]
Trump Administration Moves Forward With TikTok Ban
After weeks of discussions over the future of TikTok in the United States, the Trump Administration has announced it will be banning the social media platform as well as messaging app WeChat from mobile app stores starting as early as Sunday (Sept. 20). The unprecedented ban is to “Protect the National Security of the United […]
Aimee Mann Releases Cover of Leonard Cohen’s 'Avalanche'
Aimee Mann’s captivating cover of Leonard Cohen’s “Avalanche,” which serves as the theme song for HBO’s true-crime docu-series I’ll Be Gone In The Dark, is now available for download and/or streaming. It’s an especially poignant song placement for Mann, as she was close friends with the late Michelle McNamara, whose tireless research and book, I’ll Be Gone in the […]
Vallyre Announces The Release Of Her Latest Single “Bloodsweat”
Vallyre’s passion for pop music is coming from her childhood when she used to take singing lessons at TrueVoice NYC Academy and by continuing to take vocal lessons at Iron Work Studios, she eventually dedicated her whole life to music. So today, this Boston-native singer and songwriter with her strong musical background, releases her latest […]
Neil Peart’s Legacy Celebrated at Modern Drummer Festival
You’ve missed it now, but through the wonders of the “it never really dies, it just goes online…” technology, and a reasonable 13 bucks, you can still see the Modern Drummer’s 20th annual Drumming Festival, the first in two decades that wasn’t celebrated in person in front of its usual massive audiences. The event was […]
Stream Tyler Childers’ Protest-Minded Surprise Album Long Violent History
Ever since he released his 2017 album Purgatory, the Kentucky singer and songwriter Tyler Childers has been one of the biggest stars in the world of rootsy country music. (Childers doesn’t like the word “Americana”; he likes to be known as a country musician. But Childers is a lot closer on the spectrum to his […]