During the COVID-19 lockdowns, Charlatans frontman Tim Burgess has been hosting Tim’s Twitter Listening Party. Fans and the artist listen to favorite albums in real-time, tweeting responses, insights, and bits of trivia. It is a brilliant way to bring music… Read More
It’s time to make you sweat. Introduucing… Alewya, a West London-based singer-songwriter, producer and visual artist making her first formal moves in the music industry. Alewya – her name meaning “most high” or “the highest” in Arabic – was born… Read More
There's a lot of good heavy music out this week, like the Sharptooth album, which I reviewed for Notable Releases. You can also head to Invisible Oranges' Upcoming Metal Releases for more, including Skeleton, Rebel Wizard, Voivod, last week's MSW… Read More
This past Friday (7/3), Trump held a Fourth of July event at Mount Rushmore and was met by protests from indigenous people and allies because Mount Rushmore is a symbol of oppression and because the Black Hills mountain rage where… Read More
The vast majority of major music festivals have cancelled or postponed their summer 2020 editions, but as the country emerges from coronavirus shutdown, some events are moving forward with new safety restrictions. That includes Northeastern PA's In My Elements, which… Read More
Long-running emo revival leader Evan Weiss has announced his first Into It. Over It. album since 2016's great Standards. It's called Figure and it comes out September 18 via Triple Crown (pre-order). Evan says, "It’s about trying to make peace… Read More
Online communities form around shared interests – popular culture, musical acts, politics, gaming – but that commonality often gets lost amidst community members’ disputes and disagreements. Moderators have the responsibility of sorting out those problems and that, along with their… Read More
Luke Temple’s second album as Art Feynman, titled Half Price at 3:30, is grounded by the same qualities that made 2017’s Blast Off Through the Wicker such a tasty little indie-pop treat. I’m not implying that Temple is stagnating. The… Read More
Alisa Xayalith and Thom Powers are in a new position these days, suddenly carrying a lot more musical weight on their shoulders. Shortly after their New Zealand synthpop outfit the Naked & Famous released their stripped-down acoustic set A Still… Read More
When DeForrest Brown Jr. says, “Make techno Black again,” it is meant both as a reminder of a historical fact—dance music is Black music—and a rejection of a widespread misconception. To many around the world, techno is the stuff of… Read More