Live comedy in NYC has been coming back as more and more people get vaccinated and COVID restrictions are being lifted, and one of our favorite weekly shows, Jo Firestone, Aparna Nancherla and Maeve Higgins‘ Butterboy, is returning Brooklyn’s Littlefield every… Read More
Like just about all music venues, Jersey City’s White Eagle Hall closed their doors in March of 2020 because of the pandemic, and over a year later, they’re finally reopening. Their first show back happens on July 15 with Long… Read More
The Alan Vega archives already gave us one album’s worth of unreleased material, Mutator, this year, and another is on the way. Alan Vega After Dark dates from a one single-night 2015 session with Ben Vaughn (who, along with Alex Chilton, played on 1996’s… Read More
Anthrax‘s Charlie Benante is a noteworthy visual artist in addition to his work as a drummer, creating the band’s iconic mascot, Notman, in addition to helping design all of their album covers since 1985’s Spreading the Disease. One of their… Read More
NOTE: We post the newest livestreams in a new post every week. Make sure you’re reading the newest edition of our roundup – check the livestream tag HERE for the latest. LAST UPDATED: 6/27 at 12:01 AM ET HERE ARE… Read More
Chrvches‘ new single “How Not to Drown” features The Cure‘s Robert Smith, and now he’s gone and remixed the track, stripping out the dancier elements and making it even more dark and moody than it was before. Cure-esque, if you… Read More
’80s-alternative-themed CA festival Cruel World was originally scheduled to happen in LA in 2020, but was rescheduled to May 14, 2022 at Brookside at The Rosebowl in Pasadena because of the pandemic, with most of the original lineup still intact.… Read More
Earlier this year, Los Crudos / Limp Wrist vocalist Martin Sorrondeguy released the song “Pestes” with his new band Canal Irreal, and promised a full-length album would arrive later in the year. Now, as Stereogum points out, their self-titled debut… Read More
Skatune Network, the ska covers project of Jeremy Hunter (who also plays in We Are The Union and makes original solo material as JER), has released a pop covers album called burn the billboard featuring a ton of cool guests… Read More
Tyler, the Creator and the now-defunct Odd Future set out to change the world of rap music with their rowdy live shows and early mixtapes like Tyler’s macabre Bastard, and they were successful, but Tyler actually made his best album… Read More