Peter Frampton has certainly lived the life of a rock star to the fullest. With so many ups and downs, experiences that ranged from Rocky Mountain sky-high to bottom-of-the-barrel low while meeting fascinating, legendary musicians and unusual characters along the… Read More
The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black and M. Lamar will play an afternoon show in NYC's Tompkins Square Park on Halloween, with Pinc Louds, B.B. YTK, and Wicked Exorcist also on the bill. The free show starts at 1 PM.… Read More
With Public Enemy's powerful new album What You Gonna Do When the Grid Goes Down? out now, Chuck D was a guest on the new episode of podcast Jemele Hill is Unbothered. They talk about the record, Public Enemy's legacy,… Read More
Kevin Devine and Andy Hull's (Manchester Orchestra) collaborative project Bad Books (which now also includes Manchester Orchestra's Robert McDowell) have announced a 10th anniversary expanded reissue of their self-titled 2010 debut album, due this Friday (10/23) (pre-order). One of the… Read More
A new cassette compilation, Hands Off!, benefits "the empowerment of young womxn through rock n roll." Produced by L.G. of Thelma And The Sleaze, May McDonough of The Psychedelic Cherry, Alex White of White Mystery & cassette store Tapehead City,… Read More
Longtime collaborators Boris and Merzbow have announced a new album together, 2R0I2P0, due December 11 via Relapse. "This year was a period of trial for everyone in the world," Boris says. "This work becomes a monument to the requiem of… Read More
A crossdressing tragicomedy considerably ahead of its time, George Cukor’s Sylvia Scarlett notoriously flopped at the box office when first released in 1935. Even more than Mary of Scotland (1936) and Bringing Up Baby (1938)—the latter enjoying little initial success… Read More
For three Fridays straight, Bill Callahan and Bonnie 'Prince' Billy have shared collaborative covers, and each of them have also been collaborations with a third artist. Their version of Yusuf/Cat Stevens' "Blackness of the Night" was made with AZITA, while… Read More
This has been a hugely stacked week for hip hop, with new albums from Black Thought, Benny the Butcher, Open Mike Eagle, T.I. (ft. Benny the Butcher, Conway, Killer Mike, Rapsody, Jadakiss & more), Sheek Louch, Homeboy Sandman, ShooterGang Kony,… Read More
ọmọlólù has just put out her debut release laiii 222 rest ooo on Don Giovanni, who notes that she is an "educator, african surrealist documentarian, digital griot and blx ecstatix performance artist." The project has three lengthy tracks, and it… Read More