Yesterday, it was announced that Jupiter Rising Film are planning to make a Thelonious Monk biopic called Thelonious with rapper Yasiin Bey (fka Mos Def) starring in the titular role. After the news broke, Thelonious Monk’s son and the chairman… Read More
Cave In have signed to Relapse Records and confirmed that they’ll release a new album on the label in 2022. They’ve also reissued almost all of their digital catalog on the label (and put everything on Bandcamp), and physical reissues… Read More
Synthpop artist and composer Anna Meredith surprise-released new album Bumps Per Minute: 18 Studies for Dodgems last week, which features works commissioned for the DODGE installation at Somerset House, London. The installation is a high-concept piece centered around bumper cars,… Read More
The Feelies have never really toured, opting to play little pockets of shows over a long weekend (they used to be known for playing national holidays when the members didn’t have to ask off work), and they mostly stay on… Read More
NJ metalcore legends Deadguy have been planning a reunion, a documentary, and the potential of new music, and today a new, longer trailer for the documentary — titled Deadguy: Killing Music — has been released. It features old live photos… Read More
Coheed & Cambria have released a new single, “Shoulders,” their first original new song since 2018. It finds the band embracing their love of classic heavy metal riffage, before exploding into the kind of soaring chorus that Coheed have been… Read More
Cheap Trick are back on tour and making up for pandemic lost time, with a massive set of dates ahead of them that will have them out for most of the next year, playing North America, the UK and Europe.… Read More
Hollywood Bowl‘s 2021 season is underway, and on Sunday night (7/18) the Los Angeles venue hosted Kamasi Washington and Earl Sweatshirt. Kamasi had promised “some serious inspiration on stage” for the show, and along with Thundercat joining him throughout the… Read More
Lou Barlow and John Davis‘ ’90s-era group Folk Implosion are back in action. Lou announced the news on Instagram with a picture of the two of them, writing, “Perhaps u know already but Folk Implosion o.g. reconvened last week after… Read More
This week in hip hop, we got the second posthumous album from Pop Smoke (which you can read about in Notable Releases), plus new albums from Blxst & Bino Rideaux, Drakeo The Ruler, and more. We also got an awesome… Read More