Arooj Aftab just played a stunning show at The Temple of Dendur at The Met, and she's now announced another NYC date happening next month. She'll perform at Symphony Space on October 19. It's free with RSVP to attend. Arooj's… Read More
SAVAK are releasing Error / Delight, a remix LP version of this year's Human Error / Human Delight, that will be out December 12 via Ernest Jenning Recording Co. They got some pretty cool artists to work on it, including… Read More
Brighton band Porridge Radio released one of our favorite albums of 2020, Every Bad, but their plans to tour it were derailed because of Covid. They put out that album's follow-up, the fantastic Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder To The Sky,… Read More
Sound on Sound got off to a rocky start on Saturday, but day two (Sunday 9/25) of the Bridgeport, CT fest's inaugural edition seemed to go more smoothly. In a statement to The Hour, Founders Entertainment co-founder Tom Russell said,… Read More
OSEES were in town over the weekend for another extended stay at Brooklyn's Warsaw, playing three nights with Bronze. We caught the final night (Saturday, September 24), which had John Dwyer and crew whipping the crowd into a frenzy from the get-go.… Read More
The War On Drugs recently announced a deluxe edition of last year's I Don't Live Here Anymore featuring a 7" single two unreleased songs, "Oceans of Darkness" and "Slow Ghost," both of which TWOD have been playing live (and the… Read More
Parading down the middle of West 63rd Street last Saturday afternoon, we were following a giant puppet — a whole crowd of us, trekking along behind Little Amal. The 12-foot-tall Syrian refugee child, a creation of the renowned Handspring Puppet… Read More
The No Ones, the intercontinental musical meeting of R.E.M.'s Peter Buck, frequent collaborator Scott McCaughey (REM, The Baseball Project, Young Fresh Fellows) and Arne Kjelsrud Mathisen and Frode Stromstad of Norwegian Teenage Fanclub fans I Was a King, released their debut album in… Read More
Ahead of their big fall tour with Jane's Addiction, and after announcing a new album, ATUM: A Rock Opera In Three Acts, The Smashing Pumpkins played an NYC club show at Irving Plaza on Thursday night (9/22). The free show… Read More
L.S. Dunes — the Anthony Green-fronted post-hardcore supergroup that also features members of My Chemical Romance, Thursday, and Coheed & Cambria — have shared the second single and opening track of their anticipated debut album Past Lives, "2022." A different… Read More