The 2021 edition of Lollapalooza continued as scheduled on Friday (7/30), but public concern over COVID cases in Cook County and the country continues, and now for Saturday, the festival will begin requiring masks be worn by attendees, regardless of… Read More
Raytheon Technologies wants to wish you a Happy Pride. The defense conglomerate and military contractor is on a mission to “celebrate and uplift [its] LGBTQ+ employees.” So is Axon, a taser and body cam manufacturer. So is Uber—did you know… Read More
Vancouver collective Crack Cloud made one of the best debuts of 2020 with Pain Olympics, a phantasmagoric, post-apocalyptic dancerock epic that crackles with creative energy. If you haven’t checked it out, you can listen to the whole thing below, and… Read More
Throwing Muses‘ Kristin Hersh will be on tour in November, including Northeast solo dates in NYC, Philly and Boston, and West Coast dates with her electric trio, including San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, and Seattle. All dates are listed… Read More
New Orleans duo $uicideboy$ toured in 2019 with a genre-defying and seriously awesome mix of openers. They’ve now announced a new leg of that tour, the Grey Day Tour 2021, running from September through November in the US, with another… Read More
Camp Cope’s Georgia Maq went in a lo-fi bedroom synthpop direction on her 2019 solo album Pleaser, and now she has gone pop pop with her new song “Someone Stranger,” a collaboration with producer Alice Ivy. “Alice Ivy and I… Read More
Saint Etienne will release their 10th album, I’ve Been Trying To Tell You, on September 10 via Heavenly Records. (Bob Stanley told us it would be coming sooner than later and he was not kidding.) It’s an unusual album for… 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
Fat Mike of NOFX‘s touring Punk in Drublic music and craft beer fest is returning to Pittsburgh, PA for the first time since 2018. It happens on Saturday, October 2 at Sandcastle Waterpark, and the lineup features NOFX, Pennywise, Less… Read More
Sun Ra Arkestra played a free show at SummerStage in Central Park on Saturday. Marshall Allen, 97 years young, still leads the Arkestra, and was up playing the whole 90 minute show, laying down saxophone, his skronky EVI (electronic valve… Read More