Brooklyn Academy of Music has announced the lineup of their 2022 Next Wave festival, featuring opera, theater, dance, music, and art installations. It includes two nights with Flying Lotus, who will be performing with Miguel Atwood-Ferguson and the Wordless Music…
Sacred Rose Festival is a new music festival coming to the Chicago area from August 26-28 at Seatgeek Stadium Campus, headlined by Grateful Dead offshoot Phil Lesh & Friends, and they've just revealed that some very exciting people will be…
Tim Heidecker has shared "Sirens of Titan," his collaboration with Kurt Vile that's on his forthcoming album, High School. Against a synth-rock slow-burn that brings to mind Don Henley's "Boys of Summer," Tim and Kurt share lead vocals as the…
TONIGHT IN NYC: Kurt Vile and the Violators, Sun Ra Arkestra @ Webster Hall Future Islands, ESG @ Brooklyn Steel Robert Glasper @ Blue Note Jazz Club Demilich, Antichrist Siege Machine, CrossSpitter, Glorious Depravity @ Saint Vitus Bar Babyface Ray…
Here's a roundup of recent tour news. Check the Tour Dates category for more. OM & ZOMBI Doom greats OM will be on tour with Zombi starting September 8 in Oklahoma City, with subsequent dates in Omaha, Chicago, Minneapolis, Winnipeg, Calgary, Vancouver,…
After kicking off on Friday, Wilco's Solid Sound Festival continued its 2022 edition Saturday (5/28) at MASS MoCA. Wilco finished out the night with their second headlining set of the festival, playing a set that spanned their career, and including…
Will Butler, who is no longer in Arcade Fire, has just shared a new two-track single. The a-side is the simmering, twilight-lit "A Stranger's House" which comes with a video Will also directed that his him having a conversation with…
This week in heavy music, I highly recommend the new albums from Simulakra and bigLOVE (members of Employed To Serve), both of which you can read about in Notable Releases, and I also recommend checking out the new Enact, Snuffed,…
As a rule, New Yorkers like to think they're ready for anything. Blackouts, earthquakes, floods… but maybe not possums. That's what happened, though, when a marsupial wandered into Greenpoint's Temkin's Bar on Thursday night (5/26). Luckily one of the human patrons was prepared.…
So many artists, so many songs, 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…
M.I.A. has announced that her first album since 2016's AIM is called MATA and due this year via her new label home, Island Records. The first single is "The One," which was produced by Rex Kudo (Post Malone, Juice WRLD,…
Animal Collective were scheduled to be wrapping up a run of US dates with Spirit of the Beehive in late May and early June, but they've cancelled the remainder of their shows this month and next after Avey Tare and…
TONIGHT IN NYC: The Who, The Wild Things @ Madison Square Garden Hinds, Another Michael, Sub*T @ Music Hall of Williamsburg Merde! Alyssa Davis Gallery Galla w/ Eartheater, Wicca Phase Springs Eternal, Umfang, Lydo, J Arthur @ 99 Scott Vio-lence,…
Jens Lekman wraps up his North American tour tonight in Washington, DC, and earlier this week he played two nights at Brooklyn's Music Hall of Williamsburg. Originally scheduled for 2020, this tour has Jens and his band playing with local…
So many artists, so many songs, 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…
Dehd's new album, Blue Skies, is out this Friday via Fat Possum, and they've just shared one last song before unleashing the whole thing. The band's Emily Kempf says "Window" is about “being obsessed with true love and the construct…
Divided Heaven, aka punk singer/songwriter Jeff Berman, recently released his new album Oblivion on A-F Records (US) and Gunner Records (EU), and here's what he said about it: I had to write a record that matched the times: delicate to…
Pavement just played their first show in nearly 12 years, and will head to Barcelona and Porto next week for Primavera Sound. Their fall tour starts in September, and they've just announced the openers for all dates. They include, at…
Sad news: Cathal Coughlan, who led Microdisney in the '80s and Fatima Mansions in the '90s, has died. The Guardian reports that his family confirmed his death, saying he "slipped away peacefully in hospital after a long illness." He was 61.…
Britpop greats Suede are back with a new album, Autofiction, which will be out September 16 via BMG. Their fourth full-length since reforming in 2010, the album finds Brett Anderson, Mat Osman, Simon Gilbert, Richard Oakes and Neil Codling working once…
SACK are a "mysterious" punk band from Denver, but they've got some famous rotating members, and for their upcoming album Ripper!, lead vocals are handled by Kody Templeman of The Lillingtons and Teenage Bottlerocket (who goes by Bruzzy in this…
