Elbow will release a new album, Flying Dream 1, on November 19. The band wrote the album remotely during lockdown but came together at the Brighton Theatre Royal to “perfect, perform, and record the songs,” and it presents a quieter… Read More
Neko Case has been on tour with her New Pornographers bandmate AC Newman as support (and joining her in her band) for the past couple of weeks, but they’ve been forced to cancel the final few dates because a member… Read More
Guided by Voices are the latest band to announce they’ll be requiring everyone in attendance at their concerts, including staff, to show proof of Covid vaccination. “Given the spread of the Delta Variant, and the CDC’s recent guideline changes, we… Read More
Yo La Tengo‘s free show in SummerStage in Central Park on Wednesday (9/1) has been rescheduled to Friday, October 1, “due to the likelihood of severe weather.” The new date will still feature openers Mountain Movers and DJ Amanda Nazario. SummerStage notes… Read More
Last week, John Lydon lost his court battle to stop Sex Pistols songs from being used in Danny Boyle’s upcoming FX miniseries about the band. High Court judge Sir Anthony Mann said that Steve Jones (whose memoir the series is… Read More
One of the year’s most unique albums is Megabear by UK indie band ME REX, a song cycle made up of 52 tracks that range from 30-60 seconds that’s intended to be shuffled and sound like a cohesive album no… Read More
Tampa, FL’s FYA Fest has announced its return. The festival’s eighth edition happens on January 8 and 9, 2022 at Bryan Glazer Family JCC. The 2022 lineup includes Turnstile, E.Town Concrete, Mindforce, Vein.fm, Gulch, God’s Hate, Be All End All,… Read More
This week in Indie Basement: a lost treasure from 1980 from The Hawks (Stephen Duffy and Dave Kunsworth); Steve Gunn makes his prettiest record yet; Supergrass give their second album, In it for the Money, its first vinyl pressing since… Read More
This week in hip hop, we got the posthumous Chynna album, which I wrote about in Notable Releases, and we also got a slew of singles, from the late Gift of Gab, Young Thug, Kari Faux, Kevin Abstract, Mozzy, Big… Read More
TONIGHT IN NYC: WE LOVE NYC: The Homecoming Concert w/ Bruce Springsteen, Paul Simon, Patti Smith, Jennifer Hudson, Jon Batiste, Andrea Bocelli, Kane Brown, LL Cool J, Elvis Costello, Lucky Daye, Earth Wind & Fire, Kenny “Babyface” Edmonds, Cynthia Erivo,… Read More