Epitaph Records has officially announced the signing of viral young punk band The Linda Lindas. “Epitaph offered us full creative control and they’re really supportive of what we want to do as a band,” vocalist and guitarist Lucia says. “We’re… Read More
Pre-order our exclusive orange/purple/green swirl vinyl variant of Foxing’s anticipated new album here. Foxing recently released two very good, very different songs — the sprawling, proggy “Speak With The Dead” and the bouncy, glitchy synthpop of “Go Down Together” —… Read More
“I love who I see looking at me in the mirror.” Not so fast, Olivia Rodrigo. While the sound at radio might be steadily shifting towards something that resembles an early ’00s pop-punk revival (which is great in its own… Read More
Hot 97 couldn’t hold their annual Summer Jam concert in 2020 because of COVID, but they’ve now announced that they’ll be back this year. Summer Jam 2021 happens on Sunday, August 22 at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, NJ, and… Read More
Genre-defying Detroit punks The Armed recently released their excellent new album ULTRAPOP on Sargent House (read our review), and they’ve now announced three U.S. release shows shows for 2022: a hometown date on January 8 at El Club (tickets), a… Read More
José González‘s anticipated first album in six years, Local Valley, is due out September 17 via Mute, and in addition to his tour with Rufus Wainwright supporting it, he also has a couple of special livestream events coming up. The… Read More
After cancelling their 2020 edition due to COVID, Atlanta, GA festival Shaky Knees has announced its return this year. It’ll move to the fall, on October 22-24 in Central Park, instead of its typical May dates, and one of the… Read More
Danny Elfman‘s first solo album in nearly four decades, Big Mess, is out on June 11, and among the new songs is a reworked version of Oingo Boingo’s “Insects” (from their 1982 album Nothing to Fear). This new version has a… Read More
OSEES are usually on the road more than they’re not, and after a year and change with no live music — during which time the band released three great albums — there was surely a lot of pent up energy.… Read More
audiobooks, the duo of Evangeline Ling and producer/mixer David Wrench, made one of the best, brilliantly bonkers albums of 2018 with their debut, Now! (in a minute). Three years later, they’re finally back with Astro Tough, which will be out… Read More