Oakland’s Bad Visuals are following their self-released, Jack Shirley-recorded 2019 debut LP Petaluma with a new EP, Ravel, on April 30 via Acrobat Unstable, the relatively new North Carolina DIY label that just keeps signing awesome bands (like Stars Hollow,… Read More
Knoxville’s Big Ears was one of the festivals to be knocked out by the coronavirus pandemic, cancelling its 2020 edition just weeks before it was set to happen. They’ve just announced they’ll be taking 2021 off as well but will be back for… Read More
In a city of 23 million, Ahmed El Ghazoly sometimes had trouble finding a receptive audience for his brand of club music. “My stuff is too weird for Cairo,” he told The Wire a few years back. In fact, El… Read More
One year ago on Wednesday (3/17), in the beginning days of coronavirus lockdown, Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie streamed the first of what would become a series of solo livestream sets. He did the “Live from Home” sets… Read More
Before releasing even the first single off their excellent debut album In Spite Of, For Your Health debuted some of the new material in a genuinely inspired live session (for hate5six), so now that the album’s been out for a… Read More
Politically outspoken LA punks Total Massacre have been releasing a series of topical, fired-up singles lately, including “Cocaine Mitch,” “Get Rich or Try Dying,” and “Pro-Life Death Cult,” and they’re now back with another one, “Pick Yer Poison.” It’s an… Read More
Raw Plastic (the new project of Seb Polus and Bastian Najde, who are both in Polish bands Syndrom Paryski and Revive) released a two-song promo at the tail-end of 2020 with the songs “Car Parks and Recreation” and “Hazy,” and… Read More
Lil Baby did a powerful, fired-up Grammys performance, playing his protest song “The Bigger Picture” on a set that mirrored the protests against police brutality that went down all throughout America in 2020, and it got more and more intense… Read More
This week in heavy music, we got the great new albums from Eyehategod, Enforced, Pupil Slicer, and Closer (all of which you can read about in Notable Releases), plus I recommend checking out the new World Peace and God’s Hate… Read More
Back in 2012, Stephen Malkmus teamed with German group Von Spar to perform Can’s icon 1972 album Ege Bamyasi in its entirety for a 40th anniversary celebration at Cologne’s Week-End Fest. They did a pretty great job with the album — that… Read More