A new official ad for Joe Biden for President uses Pixies' "Where is My Mind?" and Beastie Boys' "Sabotage," and is about the dire situation music venues in America are currently in due to COVID-19. According to Variety, it marks the first… Read More
Bob Biggs, who founded Los Angeles independent label Slash Records, has died after a long illness. The news has been shared by various friends and family on social media. He was 74. The label grew out of the Slash punk… Read More
Code Orange's two full-band livestreams this year have both been genuinely great, so it's exciting news that they just announced a third. It's called "BACK INSIDE THE GLASS," and a press release calls it "an all-immersive environmental experience placing Code… Read More
While our brains continue to lose the ability to focus as Election Day approaches (me at least), here are some records to listen to that will hopefully counteract the chaos: Kevin Morby releases his best album since Singing Saw; Helena… Read More
“Annie, Annie, they’re playing our song / And for a moment I’m transported to where I’m from…” Nostalgia is at an all-time high in These Unprecedented Times™. While we’re all stuck in lockdown, in tiers, in quarantine – whatever the… Read More
Buffalo musician Quinton Brock has made music with the experimental rap group Network, as one half of the psychedelic, multi-genre duo The Get Money Squad with his brother Jon Bap, and as a solo artist who released his first album… Read More
The Body will release a new album, I've Seen All I Need To See, on January 29 via Thrill Jockey. The announcement reads: The Body is a prolific musical force whose creativity is matched only by the astonishing weight of… Read More
The Simpsons predicted Donald Trump's presidency in a 2000 episode, "Bart to the Future," a move that writer Dan Greaney, in an interview with Hollywood Reporter, called "a warning to America." "It was pitched," he continued, "because it was consistent… Read More
War On Women have released "White Lies," the second single off their anticipated new album Wonderful Hell (following the title track, which we named one of the best punk songs of September). This one's even angrier and more aggressive than… Read More
Ed Crawford, aka ed fROMOHIO! of Mike Watt and George Hurley's post-Minutemen band fIREHOSE, has fallen on hard times and has been living out out of his car in the Pittsburgh area since the summer. Friend David Ciley launched a GoFundMe… Read More