For many years, Providence noise-rock legends Lightning Bolt and experimental Osaka wizards the Boredoms have recognized each other as fellow travelers. I once saw Lightning Bolt open a New York Boredoms show, and let me tell you, that was a good night. Boredoms drummer YoshimiO, whose name you probably recognize from that one Flaming Lips […]
Doll Spirit Vessel Announce New Album Bow: Hear “Kissing My Cup”
Philly indie rockers Doll Spirit Vessel were quiet for a few years after the release of their 2022 album What Stays, but they came back with a new song called “Godless” last month. Now, they’re ready to announce their new LP Bow, and they’re sharing a tangled, wearily energetic new song called “Kissing My Cup.” […]
United Blood 2026 Lineup Has Speed, Foundation, Agnostic Front, Breakdown, So Much Hardcore
The Richmond hardcore festival United Blood holds a special place in moshers’ hearts, and it was fondly missed when the organizers decided to stop doing the fest after COVID forced the cancellation of the 2020 edition. Last year, though, United Blood came back for the first time in six years, selling out Richmond’s bigass Canal […]
Giallo Announce Debut Album Tenebrarum: Hear “Sleepwalking” & “Teeth Of Glass”
The latest album announcement from Colorado hardcore institution Convulse Records comes from Giallo. The band hails from Minneapolis, where a lot of unspeakable atrocities have been taking place lately. And though debut album Tenebrarum was presumably recorded before ICE made the Twin Cities something like a war zone, advance tracks “Sleepwalking” (96 seconds, real crazy) […]
Adult DVD – “Real Tree Lee”
You’re not gonna believe this, but there’s a new ruggedly artsy post-punk band out of Britain. The Leeds combo Adult DVD have announced their signing to Fat Possum today with the release of the intense (and intensely likable) new single “Real Tree Lee.” Over top of a post-DFA backing track built around a relentless strobing […]
A$AP Rocky Releases ‘WHISKEY/BLACK DEMARCO’ Video: Watch
Years of waiting for A$AP Rocky’s Don’t Be Dumb finally paid off for fans when the New York rapper dropped the album this past Friday. It has the blend of genres that people have come to expect from him at this point and it feels as though the general consensus is that it’s up to […]
Watch Mr. Bungle Play “Retrovertigo” Live For The First Time In 25 Years
The Mr. Bungle reunion has been in full swing since 2020. There have been some bumps, like when Mike Patton had to cancel for mental health reasons and when he tried to take out a drone at Knotfest Chile. But they’ve been having fun and even covering Grease songs. On Thursday, the band pleased audiences […]
Watch St. Vincent Join Cate Le Bon For “Always The Same” In New York
Last week, Cate Le Bon and St. Vincent released “Always The Same,” a collaboration made during the sessions of the Welsh singer’s latest album Michelangelo Dying. Last night Le Bon performed at New York’s Irving Plaza and brought out Annie Clark to sing the duet. Le Bon originally said about the track: “Always The Same” […]
Lexa Gates Launches Second Album With Second “Crazy Stunt”
Lexa Gates is a 24-year-old rapper/singer/producer from Queens, NY. Today she’s released her sophomore album I Am, the follow-up to 2024’s Elite Vessel. The album’s title is a play on her birth name/initials Ivanna Alexandra Martinez. “I am everything they said I couldn’t be. I am all of those things. I am what I am,” […]
Chvrches – “Addicted To Love” (Robert Palmer Cover)
Synth-pop trio Chvrches covered Robert Palmer’s lustful classic “Addicted To Love” for the Hulu drama Tell Me Lies. Chvrches’ rendition, out today, is less jazz-rock and more melodramatic ballad pop. A serious piano greets us along with Lauren Mayberry’s concerned vocals. In fact, it sounds like she’s narrating a horror scene when she sings, “You […]