Becky Warren, an award-winning, risk-taking roots artist who still needs to be properly rewarded for taking on a cold, cruel world while working for a living in Nashville since 2013, has seen the dark side of life. Now she’s shining… Read More
It's after Labor Day, which means it's open season for holiday albums, and if you feel, this year, like you're not going to be in a traditionally festive mood, Mark Lanegan is right there with you. Due out December 4,… Read More
About an hour before Mayor Bill De Blasio announced that COVID-19 numbers are rising again in NYC, City Winery owner and founder Michael Dorf sent out a message with an update on the new City Winery NYC location, an update… Read More
Herb Alpert might be best known for kitschy '60s instrumentals with The Tijuana Brass, like "Spanish Flea," "Tijuana Taxi" and "A Taste of Honey" and ""The Lonely Bull," but he's led a fascinating life, having co-founded A&M Records in 1962… Read More
Tijuana punks DFMK have been at it for the past decade and they've got five EPs under their belts, and they'll now release a 15-song, self-titled, full-length album on October 9 via La Escalera Records/A-F Records/Rad Girlfriend Records/Tiny Dragon Music/Puercords/Constructivismo… Read More
Portland metal-friendly goth rockers Idle Hands are being forced to change their name due to trademark laws. "Good day," singer and composer Gabe Franco writes in an email newsletter from the band, "this is the last Idle Hands newsletter you… Read More
So many artists, so little time. Each week we review a handful of new albums (of all genres), round up even more new music that we'd call "indie," and talk about what metal is coming out. We post music news, track premieres, and more all day. In… Read More
NYHC vets Beyond surfaced in Long Island in 1988 with a demo, Dew It!, that led to Youth of Today asking them to open a show for them. After a slew of lineup changes, they recorded No Longer At Ease… Read More
Since releasing their ninth studio album Mind Made Up in 2008, Manchester mainstays A Certain Ratio have been taking stock of their history and settling themselves comfortably in the present. Last year’s ACR: BOX tracked their evolution from the icy… Read More
In spite of everything that’s happened since Trump joined the stage of the 2016 Republican presidential debates, even just a year ago it might have been difficult to imagine a comics magazine with a taste for futuristic political dystopia overshadowed… Read More