Michelle Visage is truly living the STEPS stan-tasy. While most of us might know her best (or, at least, most frequently) as RuPaul‘s green-averse right-hand as a judge on RuPaul’s Drag Race for the past decade, others will remember –… Read More
Great news for fans of ’90s indie rock, post-rock, post-hardcore, emo, etc: veteran Boston band Karate‘s 1994 “Death Kit”/”Nerve” 7″ and 1996 self-titled debut album have finally come to streaming services, courtesy of Numero Group! Washed Up Emo provides some… Read More
NYC EDM festival Electric Zoo were, like all other music fests, forced to cancel their 2020 edition due to COVID. They announced plans for 2021 last year, for Labor Day Weekend, September 3-5, 2021 in Randall’s Island Park, and they… Read More
Tim Williams fronted the highly influential Long Island metalcore band Vision of Disorder in the ’90s and early 2000s, before forming the alt-metal band Bloodsimple in the 2000s, and then reuniting VOD in 2008 and remaining active with them to… Read More
In addition to leading the Oakland post-rock band Unconditional Arms and playing the guitar in the emo-pop band The American Scene, Jeff Wright also stays busy with his indie rock band Compltr. Having last released the single “Flush” in 2019,… Read More
Dry Cleaning release their debut album, New Long Leg, this week via 4AD and they’ve just share one last single before the whole thing drops. “Unsmart Lady” is a grungy rocker whose sludgy riffs are counterbalanced by vocalist Florence Shaw’s bone-dry lyrical… Read More
Something is up in the world of My Bloody Valentine. The band posted to their social media accounts for the first time in ages today, sharing a 30-second video featuring “Only Tomorrow” from their 2013 album mbv, and imagery of… Read More
Madness, one of the biggest groups in the UK of the ’80s, are the subject of a new three-part documentary series that will air on AMC UK in May. Based on their 2019 memoir of the same name, Before We… Read More
Dover, Delaware’s Firefly Festival was, like just about all other music fests, forced to cancel its 2020 edition, which had been scheduled for June 18-21, due to COVID. They’ve now announced they’ll be returning in 2021, and shifting from their… Read More
Waxahatchee celebrated the one-year anniversary of her excellent 2020 album Saint Cloud on Saturday (3/27) by streaming a performance of the album in full. Now, as Stereogum points out, she’s also announced a deluxe edition of the album, which includes… Read More