“This is music for a world that’s coming back together,” says Duran Duran of “Tonight United,” their new collaboration with dance music icon Giorgio Moroder. Featuring a very Moroder-style gurgling bassline, Duran Duran go full-on electro disco on this anthemic… Read More
This is a very busy week in the music world, especially in NYC with Governors Ball (where I’ll be shortly). As for new albums, Bill highlights a whopping 10 in Bill’s Indie Basement, including the insanely stacked Velvet Underground &… Read More
Insane Clown Posse fans, aka Juggalos, were called a “loosely organized hybrid gang” by the FBI in a 2011 Gang Task Report Listing, something which has had real consequences for many of them, from losing jobs and being barred from… Read More
In September 1979, Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band played two nights at Madison Square Garden as part of the benefits for MUSE (Musicians United for Safe Energy) that also featured The Doobie Brothers, James Taylor and Carly Simon,… Read More
TONIGHT IN NYC: Coldplay @ Apollo Theatre Nas @ Forest Hills Stadium Yo La Tengo (“Freewheeling” show) @ TV Eye Bartees Strange (early w/ Bathe, late w/ Hannah Jadagu) @ Mercury Lounge Freddie Gibbs @ Schimanski Jim Gaffigan @ Radio… 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. We… Read More
Joyce Manor performed their classic self-titled debut album in full at two Los Angeles shows in August, with Turnover and Tigers Jaw as support, and they were set to do the same thing in NYC on Thursday (9/23) at SummerStage… Read More
(Grateful) Dead & Company are in the midst of a tour that finds them playing some iconic venues, like Chicago’s Wrigley Field, which the band just did two consecutive nights at (9/17 & 9/18). As you’d probably expect, they didn’t… Read More
DJ Shadow‘s groundbreaking 1996 album Endtroducing just turned 25 last week, and to celebrate he’s releasing a new vinyl edition this Friday (9/24) via Mercury Records. The reissue features totally remastered audio taken from the original tapes, and was cut… Read More
Son Volt, the alt-country greats led by Jay Farrar, start a short Southeast tour this week in support of this year’s Electro Melodier, hitting Knoxville on Tuesday (9/21), and then Asheville, Charlotte, Memphis, Dallas, Houston, and more. The rest of… Read More