The Flenser has signed Ragana, whose first proper full-length in six years will arrive in 2023 via their new label home. The announcement reads: Ragana is a queer and female two-piece whose members alternate duties on drums, guitar, and vocals… Read More
UK group Yard Act just wrapped up their very sprechgesang North American tour with Brooklyn's Gustaf over the weekend. That included two NYC shows: Bowery Ballroom on Friday (10/14), and Elsewhere on Saturday (10/15), which also had Bush Tetras on… Read More
Kanye West is buying Parler, the Twitter-like conservative social media site, reports Variety. This follows West being locked out of Twitter and restricted on Instagram after making anti-semitic statements on the platforms. While details of the acquisition have not been shared, West… Read More
This week in heavy music, we got great new albums from Ripped To Shreds, Birds In Row, The Holy Ghost Tabernacle Choir, and Punitive Damage, all of which you can read about in Notable Releases, and you can head to… Read More
Megan Thee Stallion pulled double duty on Saturday Night Live this weekend as host and musical guest. She performed songs off her new album Traumazine: “Anxiety” as a beauty pageant production, and then “NDA” and “Plan B” with a band and… Read More
Former R.E.M. drummer Bill Berry hasn't been in a band since he left the group after 1996's New Adventures in Hi-Fi, but he's back behind the kit as part of Athens, GA group The Bad Ends. The band are led… Read More
Punitive Damage, the PacNW hardcore band fronted by Steph Jerkova (who also plays bass in Regional Justice Center), have just followed up their early EPs and demo with their first full-length, the Taylor Young-recorded This Is The Blackout, out now… Read More
Announced back in July, the David Bowie World Fan Convention's 2023 edition in New York has now revealed its speakers. The convention goes down June 17-18, 2023 at Terminal 5 (tickets), and speakers include producers Tony Visconti, Mark Plati, and… Read More
Sisters Jennifer & Jessie Clavin are back with their first new Bleached single since the pandemic. "Flip It" is a super-catchy, big riff poppy rocker about turning lemons into lemonade. “I heard this quote on Euphoria," Jennifer says, "‘Every day you get… Read More
The prolific NYC underground rapper MIKE hasn't put out a new project in over a year, but he'll close out 2022 with a new album, Beware of the Monkey, due December 21 via his own 10k label (pre-order). Lead single… Read More