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
In a 2015 interview, Hungarian sound artist Gábor Lázár said that in his creative process, he is “trying to give different answers to my own questions”; composition, in other words, is inseparable from research. Experiencing Lázár’s music can offer a… Read More
May found Axl Rose beefing with US Secretary of the Treasury Steve Mnuchin on social media, and over the weekend Axl took to Twitter yet again, this time to exchange words with US Surgeon General Jerome Adams. "Jerome Adams is… Read More
Bruce Springsteen has, like most musicians, put touring on hold during coronavirus, but he's been offering fans monthly live recordings to hold them over. The latest he's shared is his and The E Street band's September 25, 1999 performance at… Read More
Purling Hiss frontman Mike Polizze will release his solo debut, Long Lost Solace Find, on July 31. He made the record with pal Kurt Vile, who plays on most of it, and you can listen to "Revelation" and "Cheewawa" from… Read More