While they’ve been in quarantine, Chrissie Hynde and James Walbourne of The Pretenders have been putting together a series of songs titled the “Dylan Lockdown Series.” And their latest collaborative cover is “Standing in the Doorway,” off 1997’s Time Out of Mind. Sticking to a similar arrangement to the original, piano, organ and electric guitar […]
Stream Sweet Soul’s Noises Drown EP
If you’ve got any love in your heart for early Alkaline Trio, then you might want to pay some attention to the California band Sweet Soul. Sweet Soul debuted last fall with their Do You Like Good Music? EP. They make a hearty, fired-up form of pop-punk with shades of both emo and power-pop, sometimes […]
Roger Waters Rips David Gilmour Over Pink Floyd Website Access: 'David Thinks He Owns It'
If you thought that time would soften the forever-going feud between Roger Waters and David Gilmour, think again! In a video posted on Tuesday, Waters ripped his ex-Pink Floyd bandmate, saying that Gilmour has cut off his access to the Pink Floyd website and that Gilmour thinks he owns it. “Nothing from me is on […]
Kathleen Edwards Announces New Album 'Total Freedom', Her First In Eight Years, & Shares "Options Open": Listen
In 2014, Kathleen Edwards quit music. The Canadian roots-rock musician had released four albums and attained a certain level of critical and word-of-mouth success, but she was depressed and sick of the business. So Edwards returned to her Ottawa hometown and opened a coffeeshop called Quitters. For years, that was it. Edwards went more than […]
Green Day, Weezer and Fall Out Boy's Hella Mega Tour Pushed to 2021
In what should come as a surprise to no one, Green Day, Weezer and Fall Out Boy have pushed their Hella Mega stadium tour to 2021. The bands announced the news in tweets on Tuesday (May 19) morning. “Hopefully this doesn’t come as a surprise, but as much as we were all looking forward to […]
Littler – "This Boulder Won't Push Itself" & "Natural Disaster"
The very good Philadelphia group Littler, who were included on our Best New Bands list back in 2016, have been pretty quiet over the last couple years. They released their debut album, Of Wandering, in 2016, and followed it up with the Bad Hand EP the next year, but since then we haven’t heard much […]
Deradoorian – "It Was Me"
After singing in Dirty Projectors years ago, Angel Deradoorian has built up a solo career under her own name. Earlier this year, she announced she would soon return with her second full-length, Find The Sun. So far we’ve heard “Saturnine Night” and “Monk’s Robes.” Today, Deradoorian is back with another one. Titled “It Was Me,” […]
Big Thief's James Krivchenia Announces Ambient Solo Album 'A New Found Relaxation', Shares Three Songs: Listen
James Krivchenia is one fourth of Big Thief. He’s one of the best drummers working in indie rock right now, and he’s also a crucial part of a fundamentally tight unit. But Krivchenia also makes music on his own. His solo stuff sounds nothing like Big Thief, and it doesn’t involve drums. Instead, Krivchenia makes […]
A Grape Dope (Tortoise's John Herndon) – "Nod To The Peanuts"
As the drummer for Tortoise and its offshoot project Isotope 217, John Herndon spent the ’90s helping to shape the face of the entire post-rock genre. Then, around the turn of the millennium, he took up hip-hop production under the name A Grape Dope. Herndon released a pair of A Grape Dope EPs in 2000 […]
Watch Billy Corgan Perform 'Hard Times'
Back in January, Billy Corgan revealed that the Smashing Pumpkins were working on new material. But since then, the global pandemic hit and well, things have changed a little bit, to put it mildly. However, he did “stop by” The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon: At Home Edition on Monday night (May 18) to perform […]