Last year, New York post-hardcore legends Quicksand released Distant Populations, a genuinely great album that stands tall next to their '90s classics and also sounds fresh within the current post-hardcore scene (that they've left a massive influence on), and now… Read More
New Orleans dance punks Special Interest have announced Endure, their first album for Rough Trade, which will be out November 4. The band describe the process for this album as "inverted," as usually they work out songs though live performances,… Read More
Rolling Stone is back with another of its all-time genre lists, The 100 Greatest Country Albums of All Time. They point out in the intro that the list aims to correct the idea that country is more singles-oriented than albums-oriented,… Read More
Yeah Yeah Yeahs are playing a few big shows in October to support Cool it Down, their first album in nine years. They'll be in NYC on Saturday, October 1 at Forest Hills Stadium, with Japanese Breakfast and The Linda… Read More
PHILCO, aka The Grateful Dead's Phil Lesh and Wilco's Jeff Tweedy and Nels Cline, gave their debut performance at the inaugural edition of Chicago's Sacred Rose Festival on Friday night. They played two sets, mostly Grateful Dead songs, with Jeff… Read More
This past Friday, Massachusetts melodic punk/hardcore vets No Trigger returned with their first full-length album in ten years, Dr. Album, on Red Scare Industries. It's basically everything you want from this band — it's funny but also serious and/or political,… Read More
My Chemical Romance are finally on their long-awaited reunion tour, and last night (8/27) they played their first New York show in over 10 years at Elmont's UBS Arena. (It was their first NYC-area show since their final pre-breakup appearance,… Read More
Thanks to Stranger Things, Kate Bush's Hounds of Love classic "Running Up That Hill (A Deal with God) has been the (old) song of the summer (three months after its ascent it's still hanging in at #5 on Billboard's Hot… Read More
Harlem rapper Dave East has announced the 'No Place Like Home' tour (billed as "Dave East and friends"), which kicks off in Maine on 9/30 and travels around the US before wrapping up at home, at Harlem's Apollo Theater on… Read More
The Cure's great 1992 album Wish is often overshadowed by its two biggest singles ("A Letter to Elise" and especially "Friday I'm In Love"), or the fact that it followed their most widely-acclaimed album, 1989's Disintegration, but it's one of… Read More