Poliça's new album Madness is out today, and it's a little different for the Minneapolis group. For it, Channy Leaneagh, producer Ryan Olson, bassist Chris Bierden and drummers Ben Ivascu and Drew Christopherson incorporated into their sonic arsenal an "anthropomorphic… Read More
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… Read More
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… Read More
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… Read More
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… Read More
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,… Read More
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… Read More
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… Read More
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,… Read More
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.… Read More