Hardcore bands are supposed to burn out quickly, breakup when they’re just getting going, and then maybe reunite to headline a hardcore festival a decade or two later. When they stick around, they run a serious risk of becoming a goofy, slightly embarrassing legacy band that coasts on past glories. Once in a long while, […]
Shaky Knees 2026 Has The Strokes, Gorillaz, Pavement, Geese, & Much More
The Atlanta music festival Shaky Knees has revealed its 2026 lineup, and dang, it sure is appealing. The Strokes, Gorillaz, and Twenty One Pilots are lined up to headline. Other performers include Pavement, Geese, Turnstile, LCD Soundsystem, Wu-Tang Clan, Fontaines D.C., Japanese Breakfast, Modest Mouse, the Prodigy, Pierce The Veil, Blood Orange, Jimmy Eat World, […]
Stream British Fingerstyle Master James Blackshaw’s New Album Fractures On The Horizon
The James Blackshaw renaissance continues! In 2016, the British fingerstyle guitar virtuoso pulled the plug on his music career, citing economic concerns. In 2019, he announced his return to music, but not until late 2024 did we get Unraveling In Your Hands, Blackshaw’s first album in nearly a decade. He’s followed that one up much […]
Swapmeet – “I Know!”
Winspear have put out some of our favorite indie rock records of the past couple of years, and now, the label have welcomed their first non-US artist to their roster. Swapmeet — Venus O’Broin (guitar, vocals), Joshua Doherty (bass), Maxwell Elphick (guitar, drums, vocals), and Jack Medlyn (guitar, drums, vocals) — are a young four-piece who […]
Baby Keem Shares Music Video For ‘Birds & The Bees’ — Watch
Following the massive momentum surrounding his sophomore studio album, Ca$ino, rising hip-hop sensation Baby Keem continues to expand his visual catalog. Today, the artist has officially unveiled the music video for his standout track, “Birds & The Bees,” offering fans a high-energy cinematic experience that perfectly complements the record’s infectious production. A Visual Extension of […]
King Tuff – “Invisible Ink”
King Tuff’s return is imminent. The psychedelic garage rocker Kyle Thomas made his new back-to-basics album MOO shortly after leaving Los Angeles and returning to Vermont, the place where he’s from. He recorded it on the same Tascam 388 that he used to make his 2013 debut King Tuff Was Dead. On the LP’s first […]
Tomahawk Return, Announce First Live Shows In 13 Years
Back in 1999, Faith No More/Mr. Bungle frontman Mike Patton started the noise-rock supergroup Tomahawk with the Jesus Lizard guitarist Duane Denison, Melvins/Cows bassist Kevin Rutmanis, and John Stanier, the absolute beast of a drummer who’d already been in Helmet and who would later join Battles. Tomahawk have been intermittently active since then, though Rutmanis […]
Longboat Examines Structural Loss on Absentia — And It Feels Uncomfortably Current
There are albums about heartbreak. There are albums about grief. And then there’s Absentia — an album that zooms out. Longboat’s latest release doesn’t frame loss as a private tragedy. Instead, it studies it as a system. Careers collapse. Buildings disappear. Elections shift power. Fortunes evaporate. Identity erodes. Across Absentia, loss isn’t just emotional — […]
Population II Announce New EP Gimmicks: Hear “Magouilleux”
I was mightily impressed by Maintenant Jamais, last year’s album from francophone Montreal psych band Population II. They’re following it up this April with a new EP, Gimmicks. Lead single “Magouilleux” sits in the middle of the five-song tracklist, and it makes for a sprawling centerfold. Powered by bleary keyboards and propulsive bass, the track […]
UK Burger Bar’s Fake Toto Plaque Angers Local Historical Society
Toto members David Paich and Jeff Porcaro wrote “Africa,” the band’s immortal 1982 chart-topper, because Paich had just seen a late-night TV documentary about poverty in Africa and because he was excited to try out the horn sounds that he could make on a new polyphonic keyboard that he’d just bought. Paich and Porcaro had […]