You can’t always believe the hype. Despite the fact that stans put everything up on a pedestal, flawless track records in reality are figments of our human imagination. Even the Continue Reading
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The Halifax pop-punk band Future Girls started out in 2015 as the songwriting vehicle for Matty Grace, who’s also been in bands like Weekend Dads and Cluttered. Over the years, Continue Reading
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Kathleen Hanna is on a new song — the Bikini Kill singer’s first in more than four years. “Mirrorball” was written by Bikini Kill’s Erica Dawn Lyle and Vice Cooler Continue Reading
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Saxophonist Shabaka Hutchings is one of the key figures in the exploding London jazz scene right now. Hutchings is essentially the leader of Sons Of Kemet, the Comet Is Coming, Continue Reading
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The Florida power-pop/emo band Camp Trash impressed me with their debut EP Downtiming last year, and now they’re ready to follow it up with a full-length. The group’s first album Continue Reading
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Later this week, the great Australian rockers Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever will release their new album Endless Rooms. We’ve already heard a bunch of early singles — “The Way It Continue Reading
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Marci — aka Marta Cikojevic, keyboardist for the woozy Montreal indie band TOPS — released her debut solo single “Entertainment” earlier this year. Inevitably, that single is part of a Continue Reading
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An incredible amount of talent, commitment and self-belief is needed to become a professional athlete. An elite pro, former NFL wide receiver Antonio Brown has an entirely different level of those traits. Continue Reading
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Next month, the endlessly prolific country-rock road dogs Drive-By Truckers will release their new album Welcome 2 Club XIII. The band spent three days recording the album live in Athens, Continue Reading
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Week in and week out, there are plenty of brand-new rap songs, no matter the time of year. It can be really difficult to stay aware of what's out and also Continue Reading
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Four years ago, I went to an aftershow for a punk festival where all the bands seemed to fit a certain theme. On a four-act bill, most of the bands Continue Reading
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Back in March, classic alternative staples the Dream Syndicate announced a follow-up to 2017’s How Did I Find Myself Here?, which was their first new album in 30 years. At Continue Reading
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Back in 2017, Sam Ray officially retired the Teen Suicide name and adopted American Pleasure Club, a moniker that he had used sporadically over the years, to release 2018’s A Continue Reading
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Modern Baseball have been on indefinite hiatus for the past five years, and former frontman Jake Ewald has kept himself busy with his project Slaughter Beach, Dog. A little more Continue Reading
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Last month, the Black Keys announced their grand return with a new album, Dropout Boogie, arriving in the middle of May. At the time, Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney shared Continue Reading
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In a couple of weeks, decades-deep hardcore institution Terror will release their new album Pain Into Power. The album marks the return of founding Terror guitarist Todd Jones, who left Continue Reading
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The Nashville trio Los Colognes haven’t put out an album since 2017’s The Wave, but next week they’re returning with a new one called The New World, which they announced Continue Reading
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Next month, Metz’s Alex Edkins is releasing his first album as Weird Nightmare, and he’s shared two songs from it already, “Searching For You” and “Lusitania.” Today, he’s sharing another Continue Reading
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When I saw the Richmond hardcore band Guardrails play with One Step Closer and Soul Blind last year, frontman Jesse “Jetski” Brinkley was rocking auto-mechanic coveralls and a big probably-plastic Continue Reading
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The Bay Area hardcore scene might be the strongest in the country right now. There’s been a flood of great records from there, and we’ve got a new one today. Continue Reading
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