Seth Bogart is back with his first new Hunx & His Punx music in nine years. It's in the form of a 7" on the Sub Pop Singles Club and features two new songs — “White Lipstick” and “Lose My… Read More
Flesh & Steel is a three day NYC festival celebrating industrial, darkwave, EBM, New Beat, and other noirish, heavy synth music that happens December 1-3 in various venues around the city. It's a co-production of Restless Presents, who produce LA's… Read More
The Beths have shared another song from their anticipated third album Expert In A Dying Field. “I'm the kind of person who wants to go swimming, but takes like ten minutes to get all the way into the cold water,… Read More
The New York City Ballet has tapped Solange to compose a score for chamber ensemble for their Fall Fashion Gala. The score will accompany a currently untitled ballet choreographed by Gianna Reisen, her third work for NYCB, and will be… Read More
Next week's edition (8/22) of The New Yorker features pieces about the Biden family, Rwanda, sculptor Anish Kapoor, Nora Ephron, climate change as a partisan issue, and more — and you may recognize the person on its cover. The illustration… Read More
Guitarist Bill Pitman, who was part of the legendary Wrecking Crew of session musicians, died on Thursday (8/11) at his home in La Quinta, California. He was 102. Born February 12, 1920 in Belleville, NJ, Pittman came from a music… Read More
Roc Marciano has announced a followup to his great 2020 album Mt. Marci, which is called The Elephant Man’s Bones. Roc Marciano is not just a great rapper but also a great producer, having recently produced albums for Stove God… Read More
TONIGHT IN NYC: Rage Against the Machine, Run The Jewels @ Madison Square Garden Lady Gaga @ MetLife Stadium Elvis Costello & The Imposters, Nick Lowe @ Los Straitjackets @ The Rooftop at Pier 17 Spread Love Hip-Hop Jam w/… Read More
The emo floodgates opened in 2002. In honor of their 20th anniversaries, this edition of 'In Defense of the Genre' looks at the best emo and post-hardcore albums from that year. 2001 was the year that emo broke (on a… Read More
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… Read More