Who knew tigers were so punk rock? Iggy Pop is urging Florida Senators Marco Rubio and Rick Scott to co-sponsor The Big Cat Public Safety Act, legislation that would ultimately prevent private ownership, direct public contact and “cub petting” with big cats such as tigers if it passes. The legislation, recently made famous by Netflix’s […]
Rain Of Salvation Release New Benefit EP 'In Times Of Desperation': Stream
The members of the straight-edge metallic hardcore band Rain Of Salvation come from up and down the East Coast — Long Island, Delaware, Connecticut — and they also play in groups like Typecaste and Atonement. Today, Rain Of Salvation have followed up their 2019 debut EP A War Outside And Within with a crushing new […]
Model/Actriz – "Damocles"
Back in 2017, the Brooklyn quartet Model/Actriz released a debut EP called No. Then they went quiet for a while, going off to reimagine their sound a bit. Recently, they reemerged with a single called “Suntan,” a roiling track that boasted a brooding aesthetic drawing equally from punk, dance, and noise. Now, the band is […]
New Music Video: Desperado Orchestra – “Outer Space”
Desperado Orchestra is one of the most sincere, passionate, and hardworking artists out there, and his story is deeply moving, since he took part in the Iraq war as an American soldier who ended up extremely affected by the violence and overall experience he went through while serving in the army. He just released a […]
Gorillaz Enraged by Police Brutality and Racism
Gorillaz were one of the many musical acts who took part in yesterday’s Tuesday Blackout (June 2). However, the band has released a message where they say that they won’t stay silent during these times. “Gorillaz are enraged at the death of George Floyd and many before him at the hands of systemic racism and […]
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – "Cameo"
Over the past couple months, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever have been slowly building up to the release of their great new album, Sideways To New Italy. So far, we’ve heard a handful of singles, including “Cars In Space,” “She’s There,” and “Falling Thunder.” And now, with Sideways To New Italy finally arriving this Friday, the […]
Nothing Release Session With Previously Unreleased “Sex And Candy” Cover To Benefit Community Bail Funds
The hard-as-hell Philadelphia shoegazers Nothing have just released a session that they recorded back in December for the LA radio show Part Time Punks. They’ve put it out as a four-song EP called GEORGE, named in honor of the police murder victim George Floyd. Nothing are offering the EP as a pay-what-you-want download on Bandcamp. […]
Sun Kil Moon Announces New Album 'Welcome To Sparks, Nevada', Shares 11-Minute Song "The Johnny Cash Trail": Listen
There’s a new Sun Kil Moon album coming out, which means there’s a long and diaristic new Mark Kozelek song. Last year, Kozelek teamed up with Chicago multi-instrumentalist Ben Boye and Dirty Three drummer Jim White to release the album I Also Want To Die In New Orleans, and he led it off with a […]
On Chromatica, Lady Gaga Doesn’t Know What Normal Is | SPIN
Lady Gaga is one of those artists you wish wasn’t such a crowd-pleaser, because her crowd is often wrong. And maybe we’d play it safe too if our most sonically adventurous album garnered the nickname Artflop. But ever since 2013’s absurd, problematic, and musically astonishing Artpop didn’t meet commercial expectations (despite reaching no. 1 and […]
New Music: YG “FTP”
Klu Klux Cops. YG screams “Fuck The Police” on his latest controversial record, “FTP”. As the protests and riots continue to spread like wildfire across the country, the “FDT (Fuck Donald Trump)” rapper rallies behind his people and rages war against the corrupted and brutal members of law enforcements.