Following the recent street art tributes to Riley Gale, the late Power Trip frontman continues to be honored in new and interesting ways across various communities. There's a new Riley Gale Library opened by Jeff and Vanessa Reynolds at the… Read More
“I feel my story is still untold, but I’ll make my own happy ending.” Róisín Murphy, avant-pop shapeshifter, has always looked ahead, sonically and stylistically speaking: from the days of singing it back with Moloko, to the quirky, jazzy joy… Read More
The guitar Ian Curtis played in Joy Division's "Love Will Tear Us Apart" video is up for auction. As part of an Entertainment Memorabilia auction set up by Bonhams, Curtis' iconic Vox Phantom VI Special Guitar is estimated at $77,000 – 100,000.… Read More
AC/DC are officially back with the lineup of vocalist Brian Johnson, drummer Phil Rudd, bassist Cliff Williams, and guitarists Angus and Stevie Young, and they've almost definitely got a new album that's maybe called PWR UP on the way. While… Read More
Publishing academic books about the problems in the academy has become a flourishing, self-perpetuating field in recent years. There’s no shortage of texts speculating on what’s wrong with the academy and how it can be fixed. Some, of course, are… Read More
Portland, Maine's Lisa/Liza (aka Liza Victoria) will release her new album Shelter of a Song on November 20 via Orindal Records. "These songs were written while dealing with chronic illness," Liza says. "When I was actively writing in these last… Read More
Fuzz, the proto-metal inspired power trio of Ty Segall (drums, vocals), Charles Moothart (guitar, vocals) and Chad Ubovich (bass, vocals), will be back this month with their third album which they made with Steve Albini behind the boards. They've just shared a new track from it… Read More
There are hard truths to be gained from burst myths. So it was in 2017, when I interviewed the respected Chicago DJ/producer Ron Trent about the birth of “deep house,” a dance-music genre often reduced to a palette of muted… Read More
“I let the music take me home to the streets where I belong.“ Hey Annie, well…look at you. It’s been 16 years since the Norwegian crooner first burst onto the scene with 2004’s critically hailed Anniemal, chock full of instant… Read More
Paradoxes abound in The Silence, Don DeLillo’s latest novel. Its subject—the end of contemporary life as we know it—is huge. Its size is small, barely over 100 pages. Its premise is high concept: on Super Bowl Sunday, 2022, all technology—a… Read More