Bjork has just announced she’ll be bringing her gorgeous, elaborately staged show “Cornucopia” to the West Coast in early 2022, with three shows at Los Angeles’ Shrine Auditorium on January 26 & 29 and February 1, and two shows at… Read More
Twitter is a wild place! After becoming funny on Twitter, Eve 6 got added to The Fest “as like a postmodern joke” (to quote Eve 6), and they’ve used their platform to promote a lot of the cooler, younger punk… Read More
Synthpop icons Soft Cell will release *Happiness Not Included, their first album in 20 years, on February 25, and they’ve just released a new single, “Bruises on My Illusions,” which Dave Ball describes as “one of our darker cinematic pop… Read More
Cat Power has long had a special way of making other people’s songs her own, and she’s released two albums worth of covers already, 2000’s The Covers Record and 2008’s Jukebox. Now she has a third on the way, titled,… Read More
TONIGHT IN NYC: Thrice, Touche Amore, Self Defense Family @ Terminal 5 Marc Ribot’s Ceramic Dog, The Messthetics @ The Bell House $uicideboy$, Turnstile, Night Lovell, Germ, Ramirez, Shakewell, Chetta @ The Rooftop at Pier 17 Lil Baby, Lil Durk… Read More
Lingua Ignota recently postponed her fall shows to 2022. She’s now announced new dates for those shows, which happen in May; see them below. She’s also added a second NYC date, happening the day after the first at the same… Read More
UK artist Tirzah was scheduled to play her first US shows, supporting her acclaimed, Mica Levi-produced debut LP Devotion, in 2019, but they were cancelled later that year over visa issues. She’s now released her second album, Colourgrade, and she’s… Read More
Descendents‘ iconic mascot, a caricature of vocalist Milo Aukerman, has appeared in action figure form before a few times, and here’s his latest inanimate version, sitting perched atop his throne and reading his favorite album’s liner notes, in a new… Read More
After being postponed twice because of COVID, Chris Stapleton‘s All American Road Show tour is finally hitting the NYC area for two shows this week: Madison Square Garden on October 8, with The Marcus King Band and Yola (tickets), and… Read More
The M for Montreal festival and conference is back for a 16th year, and the 2021 edition will be a hybrid, taking place online from November 15 – 26 and in-person in Montreal from November 17 – 20. (The in-person festival… Read More