This week in heavy music, we got the great new Dreadnought album, which you can read about in Notable Releases, and we also got the debut album from former Dillinger Escape Plan member Billy Rymer's new band Thoughtcrimes (which we've… Read More
Type O Negative's seventh and final studio album, 2007's Dead Again, turned 15 this year, and to commemorate it they're reissuing it with bonus tracks: live versions of "Everything Dies," "My Girlfriend’s Girlfriend," "Black Sabbath (intro) / Christian Woman," "Love… Read More
Girlpool have announced that they'll be parting ways. The duo of Harmony Tividad and Avery Tucker have been making music together for the better part of a decade, and this year released their fourth album, Forgiveness. Given the news, they've… Read More
NYC ska vets The Slackers recently released their first album in six years, Don't Let the Sunlight Fool Ya, and now they've got a new video for one of its songs, "Second Best." It's one of the album's slower, more… Read More
Spoon kick off the Lights Camera Faction tour with Interpol on Thursday in Asbury Park, but ahead of that the Austin band played a very intimate, last-minute warm-up show at Brooklyn's Baby's All Right on Tuesday night (8/23). This was Spoon's… Read More
TONIGHT IN NYC: The Shins, Joseph @ Brooklyn Steel Los Campesinos!, Proper. @ Elsewhere Cuco, Sipper @ The Great Hall at Avant Gardner Hiss Golden Messenger, Aoife O'Donovan @ White Eagle Hall Monolord, Dorthia Cottrell @ Saint Vitus Bar LAPêCHE,… Read More
Grimes' former partner Elon Musk is once again in the news as his legal battle with Twitter continues to unfold. Amid that, Grimes posted a message on Twitter slamming journalists who she says are "stalking" and "trying to dox" her and her… Read More
Boundary-pushing trumpeter and composer Jaimie Branch has died. She was 39. Her label shared the terrible news, writing: At 9:21 pm on Monday, August 22, composer and trumpeter jaimie branch passed away in her home in Red Hook, Brooklyn. Her… Read More
Sam Amidon and Marc Ribot have worked together a few times: Sam sang on Marc's acclaimed 2018 album Songs of Resistance, and Marc joined Amidon’s ensemble this past June at the Monheim Triennale. Now they're teaming up as a duo… Read More
One of the highlights of Coachella 2022 was Danny Elfman who played his first rock band shows in decades, mixing Oingo Boingo and solo material with his many iconic film and TV scores for a bravura performance. He's announced he'll… Read More