In addition to fronting the great San Francisco punk band Western Addiction for two decades, Jason Hall is also a huge music fan who’s constantly keeping up with new stuff, and he always makes great in-depth year-end lists that are… Read More
Rolling Stone recently dropped their list of the 100 Best Albums of 2023, and they’ve followed it today with their picks for the 100 Best Songs of 2023. Like the album list, it has a lot of genre diversity, from… Read More
Singer-songwriter and Dawson’s Creek theme song creator Paula Cole is usually not mentioned in the same breath as alt-rock faves The Replacements and Dinosaur Jr, but now they are thanks to Cole’s new song, which is unexpectedly titled “The Replacements… Read More
††† (Crosses), the duo of Deftones‘ Chino Moreno and Far‘s Shaun Lopez, released a new full-length, Goodnight, God Bless, I Love U, Delete in October, and they began playing their first shows in nine years this month, including two intimate… Read More
After returning from a lengthy hiatus in 2016, heavy metal/hard rock legends Cirith Ungol say that 2024 will be their last year performing live. “Having taken a 25-year-long hiatus, we could never have imagined the tidal wave of love and… Read More
After announcing their initial 2024 lineup right before Thanksgiving, Milwaukee Metalfest has added a bunch more bands to the bill, and broken the lineup down by day. Additions include Death To All (playing two sets), Symphony X, Avatar, Lacuna Coil,… Read More
As Bad Brains vocalist HR continues to struggle with “increasingly debilitating” SUNCT (Short-lasting Unilateral Neuralgiform with Conjunctival injection and Tearing) headaches, a bunch of great musicians are coming together to play a benefit show for him in Los Angeles on… Read More
Spiritual Cramp‘s self-titled debut album is a blast, recalling the early-’00s heyday of The Hives and The Strokes, and is already showing up on a few end-of-the-year lists, including Citizen’s Nick Hamm, who called it “unbelievably locked in rock music… Read More
The Postal Service and Death Cab for Cutie celebrated 20 years of their classic 2003 albums Give Up and Transatlanticism, playing them in full on tour this year, and they’ll keep the celebration going in 2024 with a new round… Read More
To the people who thought Doja Cat should’ve been an opener, to the people who accused her of not being a rapper, Doja Cat opened up the Barclays Center stop of The Scarlet Tour with a ‘fuck you.’ She took… Read More