It's another big week in the music world. Botch and Joni Mitchell both just announced their first proper shows in over 20 years, and this weekend finally brings the much-talked-about When We Were Young Festival to Las Vegas. It's also… Read More
The same weekend we get the much-talked-about When We Were Young Festival with headliners My Chemical Romance and Paramore, we also get the debut album by Pinkshift, a much-talked-about newer band whose great 2021 debut EP has been compared to… Read More
Type O Negative's classic sophomore studio LP, 1992's The Origin of the Feces, is getting its first ever North American vinyl pressing. The new version has the infamous original NSFW cover art restored — along with a peelable scratch-n-sniff sticker… Read More
Progressive death metal band Rivers of Nihil have announced they're parting ways with founding vocalist Jake Dieffenbach. The band published a statement via Twitter detailing how they plan to move forward–bassist Adam Biggs will take on lead vocals. The statement… Read More
Chicago's Sweet Cobra will release their first album in seven years, Threes, digitally on November 11 via Pax Aeternum, with vinyl arriving in early 2023 via drummer Jason Gagovski's label Hawthorne Street Records (pre-order vinyl or digital). The album was… Read More
Richmond metal/hardcore band Mutually Assured Destruction released their great new LP Ascension on Triple B Records earlier this year, and they were also recently announced for the Trapped Under Ice-headlined Disturbin' The Peace festival in Baltimore. Since then, M.A.D. added… Read More
Norway-born, Sweden-based musician and composer Rebekka Karijord and artist, poet and dancer Jessica Dessner have been friends for 15 years, and when Rebekka decided to make an album "about climate change in 12 suites, representing the 12 months of the… Read More
Bayside have announced a headlining tour, and it's an all New York/Long Island emo affair with fellow vets I Am the Avalanche and newer torch-carriers Koyo. Bayside writes, “We wanted to go out and do some places that are a… Read More
Norwegian black metal legends Darkthrone are releasing their new album Astral Fortress next week (10/28) via Peaceville, and they've just shared its first single, "Caravan of Broken Ghosts." It's an eight-minute epic that starts out on the softer, slower side… Read More
Rockabilly great Robert Gordon, who also played in NYC punk band Tuff Darts, died Tuesday at Don Greene Hospice in New York City. Billboard reports that he had been diagnosed with leukemia. He was 75. Gordon grew up in the… Read More