As you may have heard, These Arms Are Snakes are reuniting this August for a hometown show at Seattle’s Neumos. That has sold out, and they’ve added a second date at Neumos on August 29 with Helms Alee and Mamiffer also on… Read More
Screaming Females recently announced a run of fall East Coast shows, saying, “There is a chance we could add another show or two, but this is pretty much it for 2021.” It turns out they had at least one more… Read More
The sad news just broke that underground rap veteran The Gift of Gab (real name Timothy J. Parker) of Blackalicious died this past Friday (6/18) at age 50, following a seven-year-long battle with kidney failure. “It is with heavy hearts… Read More
This is one of the busiest release weeks of the year so far (a good problem to have!), so I’m just gonna skip the intro talk and get right to the 12 (!) albums I highlight this week. And those… Read More
So many artists, so little time. Each week we review a handful of new albums (of all genres), round up even more new music that we’d call “indie,” and talk about what metal is coming out. We post music news, track premieres, and more all day. In… Read More
Very sad news: blink-182 co-founder/co-frontman and pop punk hero Mark Hoppus has been diagnosed with cancer. He writes: For the past three months I’ve been undergoing chemotherapy for cancer. I have cancer. It sucks and I’m scared, and at the… Read More
Inner Ear Studio, the iconic Arlington, VA recording studio that hosted Fugazi, Bad Brains, Dag Nasty, Minor Threat, Jawbox, Bikini Kill, Bob Mould, and others, is closing on October 1. “We’ve been in that location for 32 years, it’s been… Read More
Montreal singer/songwriter Alexandra Levy released her debut album as Ada Lea, what we say in private, in 2019 via Saddle Creek, and followed it with an EP, woman, here, last year. Now she’s shared her first new single since the… Read More
Damon and Naomi, who you might also know as 2/3rds of Galaxie 500, have announced a new album, A Sky Record, which will be out August 6, 2021. For it, they’ve once again collaborated with guitarist Michio Kurihara. “It’s like this… Read More
What does it take to make one of the greatest albums of all time? For The Beach Boys, The Beatles, and Marvin Gaye, it meant doing something maximal, utilizing orchestras and multi-layered arrangements and coming out with something that just… Read More