Though The Smiths' breakup was acrimonious to say the least and has gotten moreso over the years, guitarist Johnny Marr and bassist Andy Rourke, who were friends before The Smiths, have remained close. Marr has brought out Rourke at many of… Read More
Ronnie James Dio, Dee Snider, members of The Cure, Pantera, and more are becoming Funko Pops. The company has announced a new line of music-related vinyl figures, Polapalooza 2022. They include Notorious B.I.G. (packaged with the cover of Born Again);… Read More
Ontario emo band Arm's Length have been on a streak of making great music, from their 2021 EP Everything Nice to their ambitious debut LP Never Before Seen, Never Again Found (which came out last month via Wax Bodega). In… Read More
Acid Klaus is the new collaborative solo project from Sheffield electronic artist Adrian Flanagan, who you may know from The Moonlandingz, International Teachers of Pop or Eccentronic Research Council. (He was also briefly in The Fall.) His debut album, Step On My Travelator: The Imagined Career… Read More
Brockhampton have just released The Family, which they previously referred to as their "final album," but they also just revealed that one more album called TM is coming tonight at midnight. TM was made up of songs that were started… Read More
It's been a busy year for Thrice, who spent much of 2022 touring in support of last year's Horizons/East, released an acoustic version of one of its songs, and also put out the new single "Open Your Eyes and Dream."… Read More
Flesh & Steel is a three day NYC festival celebrating industrial, darkwave, EBM, New Beat, and other noirish, heavy synth music that happens December 1-3 in various venues around the city. The big event is on December 2 at Knockdown… Read More
Boston ska veterans Westbound Train had a prolific run during the 2000s, with releases on Hellcat Records, Stomp Records, and more (including multiple appearances on Hellcat's beloved Give 'Em the Boot compilation series), but they slowed down their output before… Read More
After the breakup of the influential Long Island emo/post-hardcore band On The Might of Princes, vocalist Jason Rosenthal went on to form the Brooklyn-based post-hardcore band The Brass, alongside bassist/vocalist Mike Campbell (of Latterman), vocalist/guitarist Jon Ellis (of Splurge), and… Read More
Fuck Money are a new noisy art punk band from Austin, who formed in 2020 during COVID lockdown with BLXPLTN’s TaSzlin Muerte on vocals, and Future Death members Alton_USA (Alton Jenkins) on drums, Bill Kenny on guitar, and Jeremy Humphries… Read More