The 2022 season of the BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! festival kicked off in high style on Wednesday (6/8) with a performance by the great Kamasi Washington. This was one of the more high-profile season openers in recent memory, and with the…
Ana Roxanne has been captivating listeners and audiences for the last 10 years with her brand of ambient music that incorporates elements of R&B, dreampop and new age. Her 2015 self-titled album was reissued in 2019, and the following year…
The Slow Death is the punk supergroup led by Jesse Thorson whose cast of members and collaborators includes members of The Ergs!, Dillinger Four, The Raging Nathans, Tiltwheel, and more, and their fourth LP Casual Majesty comes out July 8…
Wu-Tang Clan have expanded their vast merchandise empire with a new branded offering: a collaboration with the Crocs, makers of the ugly-but-comfortable shoes that continue trending a decade after first being introduced. The new collection, which is currently exclusive to…
King Princess will release her sophomore album Hold On Baby on July 29 via Zelig Records/Columbia Records (pre-order), and she has just shared two new songs from it, "Too Bad" and Cursed," along with a double video for the songs,…
L.A. band Wand have announced a summer/fall tour that includes their first East Coast dates in three years. It begins in early September at Tucson's HOCO Fest, and from there heads East, with shows in Austin, New Orleans, Nashville, DC,…
Pre-order Flogging Molly's new album on limited olive-in-clear vinyl. Celtic punk heroes Flogging Molly recently released their first song in five years, "These Times Have Got Me Drinking / Tripping Up the Stairs," and now they've announced a new album,…
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss released their first album together in 14 years, Raise the Roof, last year, and are in the midst of their tour for it. The pair hit NYC on Saturday (6/4) at Forest Hills Stadium in Queens, which was an…
Bon Iver began the summer leg of their 2022 tour with Bonny Light Horseman at Queens' Forest Hills Stadium on Friday night (6/3). The show, which also streamed live on WFUV, was presented in L-ISA immersive sound, and had a…
After dropping singles, Tachys — aka Mew vocalist Jonas Bjerre and Blue Foundation's Tobias Wilner (who's appeared on multiple Mew albums) — released their self-titled album in May. It scratches a similar itch as Mew, and finds Jonas Bjerre's voice…
New legislation aimed at making purchasing concert tickets fairer for consumers passed the New York state senate and assembly late last week. The bill, which is awaiting Governor Kathy Hochul's signature, requires ticket pages for NY events, both primary and…
Every single one of us has the devil inside, according to INXS, and this week on their Sunday Lunch covers series Toyah and King Crimson's Robert Fripp let it out. They're clearly having fun with the Australian band's 1988 hit,…
A good Britney cover is hard to come by. Perhaps it’s the gatekeeping, weathered, overly protective stan that still resides deep in my heart (REFERENCE) who can’t hear anything else other than the original version, but the covers are usually…
This week in heavy music, we got a new album from GWAR, who you can read an interview with over at Invisible Oranges (and get our exclusive white vinyl variant of the album), plus Temple of Void, Origin, Druids, Artificial…
There is a lot going on in the world of Beavis and Butt-Head this year. Their new movie, Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe, is out June 23 via the Paramount+ streaming service, and they call it "the dumbest sci-fi film…
So many artists, so many songs, so little time. Each week we review a handful of new albums (of all genres), round up even more new music that we'd call "indie," and talk about what metal is coming out. We post music news, track premieres, and…
The Linda Lindas collaborated with Bikini Kill's Erica Dawn Lyle and Vice Cooler on a track that's on the Land Trust benefit album that's out today. Their song, "Lost In Thought," also features Bikini Kill's Kathi Wilcox, and it's a…
After two years off, Barcelona's Primavera Sound festival is back and underway now, but the effects of Covid are still being felt as a few acts on the lineup have fallen off due to bands testing positive. Most notably, The…
Temperatures skyrocketed into the 90s on Tuesday, but Brooklyn rap greats Digable Planets kept things cool (like dat) on Elsewhere Rooftop with a fun, funky show. Ishmael "Butterfly" Butler (who admitted it had been a long time since he was…
NYC band Wilder Maker will release their second album, Male Models, on July 29 via Western Vinyl. Frontman and songwriter Gabriel Birnbaum and bandmates Nick Jost and Sean Mullins got some vocal help on this one from Adam Duritz (Counting…
UK jazz greats Sons of Kemet have announced that their 2022 tour will be their last, and after that they'll be "closing this chapter of the band’s life for the foreseeable future." Their full statement reads: This year will be…
