black midi have announced their third album, Hellfire, which will be out July 15 via Rough Trade. “if Cavalcade was a drama, Hellfire is like an epic action film," says the band's Geordie Greep, while Cameron Picton adds, “There’s a…
Kendrick Lamar's long-awaited album Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers comes out this Friday (5/13), and he's just released his first new song since 2018, "The Heart Part 5." Over a stellar flip of Marvin Gaye's "I Want You," (produced…
Sharon Van Etten released her fantastic new album, We've Been Going About This All Wrong on Friday (order on marbled smoke vinyl), and to celebrate, she played a surprise last minute release show at Union Pool. They started giving out…
This week in hip hop, we got the first Black Star album in 24 years and a new Bad Bunny album, both of which you can read about in Notable Releases. The extremely popular Jack Harlow also dropped his album,…
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…
Cassandra Jenkins has been playing shows supporting her excellent 2021 album An Overview on Phenomenal Nature, and she's announced a new leg of North American dates, happening this summer around her appearances at Newport Folk Festival, Outside Lands, and Pickathon.…
May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and Sound Mind is celebrating with their 2022 Music Festival for Mental Health, happening on Saturday, May 21 at Central Park in NYC. The lineup features Cold War Kids, Big Boi, American Authors, KAMAUU,…
It’s been teased for months, if not years at this point…but it’s here. Finally. Madonna, Queen of Pop™, has revealed that her long awaited, highly anticipated, much-Instagrammed 50-track remix album is coming this summer, and it’s called Finally Enough Love:…
TONIGHT IN NYC: The Antlers, Wild Pink (solo) @ Music Hall of Williamsburg Valerie June, Buffalo Nichols @ Town Hall Eyehategod, Bat, Come to Grief, Escuela Grind @ Saint Vitus Bar Dave @ Irving Plaza Eve 6, Jake Flores, We…
Goldenvoice's new Pasadena, CA festival This Ain't No Picnic (which calls back to the original fests with the same name in 1999 and 2000) happens on August 27 and 28 at Brookside at the Rose Bowl, and they've revealed the…
They've just released the teaser trailer for biopic WEIRD: The Al Yankovic Story, which stars Daniel Radcliffe as the world's most famous pop song parodist. Radcliffe certainly looks the part, be it his Hawaiian shirt and bushy hair / mustache…
Back in 2020, The Jazz June frontman Andrew Low launched his new band Post-Skeleton, which also includes Jazz June guitarist Bryan Gassler, with the song "The Loudest." That was followed by "Cigs" earlier this year, and now Post-Skeleton are gearing…
Coachella's country cousin Stagecoach went down at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California this past weekend, and like Coachella, it was home to a number of surprise guests. Lana Del Rey joined Nikki Lane for their collaborative song "Breaking…
Here's a roundup of recent tour news. Check the Tour Dates category for more. THE AVALANCHES Crate-digging duo The Avalanches will be on tour this fall, and have added new shows in Seattle (9/18 @ Neptune Theatre), Los Angeles (9/22 @ The…
Hot 97 is bringing its annual NYC-area Summer Jam festival back this summer, happening on Sunday, June 12 at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, NJ. They've announced this year's stacked lineup, which features Pusha T, Fivio Foreign, Lil Baby, Lil…
Paramore's Hayley Williams has launched a new emo-themed radio show as part of BBC Sounds' Back to Back series called Everything Is Emo, and here's the premise, in Hayley's words: Not long ago, people started calling me a “veteran” of…
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…
Iceage are back with a new single, “All The Junk On The Outskirts,” which was recorded during the same sessions as their 2018 album Beyondless. "I consider this one of the better cuts off the Beyondless sessions, but it ended…
Here's a roundup of recent tour news. Check the Tour Dates category for more. TESTAMENT / EXODUS / DEATH ANGEL Testament (including drummer Dave Lombardo) has announced the second leg of The Bay Strikes Back Tour with Exodus and Death Angel. Dates…
Jawbreaker's (slightly belated) Dear You 25th anniversary tour got underway last month, and almost the whole thing has been sold out for a very long time, including all four of the NYC shows that happen this week: tonight (4/27) through…
Ockham's Blazer are a new seven-piece group fronted by underground rapper PremRock (also of ShrapKnel), and their self-titled debut album comes out this Friday (4/29) via Fake Four Inc (pre-order) but we're premiering a full stream right now. PremRock's involvement…
