Los Angeles contemporary art museum The Broad is bringing back its "Summer Happenings" live music and performance series for 2022 after a 3-year pandemic hiatus. The monthly events happen throughout the museum and on the adjacent East West Bank Plaza,…
Joey Bada$$ recently gave an update on his long-awaited album, which he said he hopes to release "before summer," and he's making good on that promise. He just announced 2000, due June 17 via Columbia, 10 years to the day…
We're shocked and saddened to learn that The Black Dahlia Murder frontman Trevor Strnad has passed away at 41 years old. The band broke the news, writing: It is with deep sadness that we announce the passing of Trevor Scott…
Illuminati Hotties have announced a fall tour, running through North America in October and November. Enumclaw open all dates, and Guppy, Olivia Barton and Eliza McLamb each join the run for select shows, as well. The tour includes stops in…
Texas noise rock festival No Coast happens October 27 – 30 in Denton, TX, and features a wide range of loud, angular, post-punk, punk punk, post-hardcore, power electronics, metal, industrial and shoegaze acts. METZ, KEN Mode, Tropical Fuck Storm and Young Widows…
Anthony Green of Circa Survive, Laura Jane Grace of Against Me!, and Tim Kasher of Cursive have been on their joint "The Carousel Tour" this spring, where they each play their own sets and invite each other onstage to collaborate,…
Here's a roundup of recent tour news. Check the Tour Dates category for more. JACK HARLOW / CITY GIRLS Jack Harlow has announced a tour supporting his new album Come Home the Kids Miss You with support from the great Miami rap…
Australian band Cut Copy's North American tour hit NYC on Sunday (5/8) for the first of two nights at Webster Hall. This trek is in support of 2020's Freeze, Melt and the band played half of that on Sunday night,…
Bristol, UK singer-songwriter and Muncie Girls leader Lande Hekt has followed up last year's excellent solo debut with a new 7" single that's out on Emotional Response Records. The a-side is the lovely, understated and charming original, "Romantic," while the b-side…
Nick Cave's son Jethro Lazenby has passed away; he was 31 years old. Cave confirmed the news in a statement on Monday, which reads, "With much sadness, I can confirm that my son, Jethro, has passed away. We would be…
Irish singer Aoife Nessa Frances has signed to Partisan, who will release her new album later this year. Details on that are still to be revealed, but she has just shared new single "Emptiness Follows," a gorgeous song resplendent in…
Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood's new band The Smile (with Sons of Kemet's Tom Skinner) are releasing their Nigel Godrich-produced debut album A Light for Attracting Attention this Friday (5/13) via XL, and ahead of its release they've just shared…
Yorkshire, UK's The Lounge Society released their first EP last year and have now announced their debut album, Tired Of Liberty, which will be out August 26 via Speedy Wunderground. Like pretty much everything on Speedy Wunderground, the LP was…
After having had to reschedule due to Covid, Spoon finally got to play NYC's Hammerstein Ballroom on Friday night (5/6), with tourmate Margaret Glaspy. The set was a crowd-pleasing mix of older favorites and songs from their great new album Lucifer…
“I’m in love with someone new…still I’m dreaming about you.” Tove Styrke knows that life is HARD. The 29-year-old Swedish singer-songwriter has been going HARD for a while now herself, especially in the past few months, from opening for Marina…
The always-great LA hardcore (and more) festival Sound and Fury returns July 30 & 31 to Exposition Park, and the lineup is stacked as ever. It includes the first-announced reunion show from Pity Sex, who broke up in 2016, plus…
A posthumous Dr. John album called Things Happen That Way is coming out September 23 via Rounder Records (pre-order). According to Rolling Stone, he was working on it before he died, and it features covers of Hank Williams’ “I’m So…
Lucius played NYC's Beacon Theatre on Wednesday night (5/4), and for the the first song of their encore they brought out a special guest, Roger Waters, to perform Pink Floyd's "Mother." As you may know, Lucius' Jess Wolfe and Holly…
Sci-fi indie rockers Man or Astro-Man? will head out on an East Coast tour in August, hitting Asheville, Richmond, NYC, Asbury Park, Baltimore and Durham. The tour coincides with the 25th anniversary of their 1997 album Made From Technetium, and the…
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…
Redd Kross' great 1987 album Neurotica has been out of print for decades, and has never been on streaming services. That changes today, as the band's current label, Merge, have announced a new deluxe edition of the album, that will…
