Carnegie Hall has announced its next citywide festival, Afrofuturism, happening in February and March of 2022. Describing Astrofuturism as “an ever-expansive aesthetic and practice— where music, visual arts, science fiction, and technology intersect to imagine alternate realities and a liberated… Read More
Andy Shauf will be on tour from February through May, including dates with Cassandra Jenkins, Yves Jarvis and Helena Deland. He’s added more dates to the tour, including shows in Salt Lake City, Englewood (CO), Lawrence (KS), Omaha, Chicago, and… Read More
Justin Townes Earle passed away in August of 2020, and his father, Steve Earle, will be honoring his music and memory with a big tribute concert at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium on January 4. “A Celebration of Justin Townes Earle” will… Read More
Wolf Alice released their third album, Blue Weekend, in June, and on Friday night (11/12) their US tour supporting it hit NYC for the first of two intimate shows at Bowery Ballroom. The band ripped through a 70-minute set which… Read More
Hikaru Utada – Hikki, if you’re nasty – is coming. It’s been three long, hard years of Fighting the Blues since the “First Love” phenom came full circle with Hatsukoi. And while we’ve been treated to an array of excellent… Read More
Christopher Bono’s experimental contemporary classical project NOUS has collaborated with new age icon and laughter meditation practitioner Laraaji and sound healer / Usui Reiki Master Arji OceAnanda on a new album titled Circle of Celebration. The album’s out Friday, November… Read More
Back in October, Steve Albini took to Twitter to talk about his “role in inspiring ‘edgelord’ shit” with “things I said and did from an ignorant position of comfort and privilege” that were “clearly awful.” MEL magazine just published a… Read More
Mitski returned with a new single “Working for the Knife,” last month, and now she’s announced a new album! Laurel Hell, the follow-up to 2018’s excellent Be The Cowboy, is due out February 4, 2022 via Dead Oceans (pre-order on… Read More
Preorder ‘Once Twice Melody’ on Gold and Silver edition vinyl and cassette; ‘Depression Cherry’ also just came back on vinyl. Grab that along with the new album and others on cassette, and black and color vinyl. Beach House are back and have… Read More
Jenny Hval has signed to 4AD and just released her first single for the label. “Jupiter” is an ethereal creation, with Jenny’s voice soaring above the airy production. “When I wrote the music for this song in 2015, it had… Read More