UK soul/R&B singer Jorja Smith hasn’t released an album since her very good 2018 debut LP Lost & Found, but she’s been busy. Last year, she contributed to Roc Nation’s social justice benefit comp and Blue Note Records’ Blue Note… Read More
New York music venues can reopen at limited capacity in April, and after over a year without shows because of COVID, Bowery Presents will begin hosting shows in NYC again, and streaming them through a partnership with Twitch. Starting on… Read More
Tom Petty‘s family, and his former Heartbreakers bandmates, released a massive 70-track reissue of his beloved 1994 album Wildflowers last year, with alternate takes, demos, live recordings, home demos of unreleased songs from the era, and more. Sixteen of 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
It’s International Women’s Day (3/8), and in honor of the day, Annie Clark, aka St. Vincent, has made a new playlist of “Visionary Women” for Apple Music. Included on it are songs by Billie Holiday, Laurie Anderson, Aretha Franklin, Sister… Read More
The 2021 virtual edition of SXSW begins next week, running March 16-20. They’ve just announced the full lineup for the music portion of the festival, and showcasing artists include Iceage, Black Country New Road, A Place to Bury Strangers, No Joy, Sorry, Braids, Squid,… Read More
Linda Perry of 4 Non Blonde’s Rock ‘N’ Relief virtual benefit, which raised money for CORE Response’s efforts to get COVID vaccines to Los Angeles communities that need them most, streamed on Friday and Saturday (3/5-3/6), with Foo Fighters, Sheryl… Read More
MC Taylor is back with a new Hiss Golden Messenger album, titled .,. which will be out June 25 via Merge. During the height of the pandemic, between March and June of 2020, Taylor wrote over 20 songs on his… Read More
Rundown Kreeps formed about a decade ago, released their debut EP in 2015, and have been making a name for themselves in the LA ska-punk scene ever since. They’ve just signed to Wiretap Records’ new Latinx punk imprint My Grito,… Read More
Highly influential Chicago punk veterans Naked Raygun have been reunited for a while, they released some a series of singles on Riot Fest’s label in the early 2010s, and they’ve been talking about a new album — their first since… Read More