The Toves of Pop™ are delivering this year. (As they are wont to do every year, but still.) While Tove Lo is about to unleash her inner Dirt Femme, Tove Styrke‘s still mining pop gold only a few months after… Read More
Afropunk Brooklyn returned for its first edition since 2019 on Saturday (9/10) at Commodore Barry Park. The Roots and Freddie Gibbs closed out the night on the Green and Red stages, respectively, and day one also featured sets from Butcher… Read More
This week's edition of Toyah and Robert Fripp's Sunday Lunch series is a reposting of their 2020 cover of David Bowie's "Heroes." They originally performed it for VE Day, but they've put it up again in tribute to Queen Elizabeth… Read More
TONIGHT IN NYC: My Chemical Romance, Thursday, The Lemon Twigs @ Barclays Center Afropunk Festival w/ Burna Boy, Earl Sweatshirt, Lucky Daye, Mick Jenkins, Adekunle Gold, Ambre, Bartees Strange, Ekkstacy, Pink Siifu, Fana Hues, more @ Commodore Barry Park Pearl… Read More
Afropunk Festival returns for its first Brooklyn edition since 2019 this weekend (9/10-9/11) at Commodore Barry Park. If you aren't going in person, you can also stream it live on Afropunk's Twitch channel. It runs from 1 PM ET-10 PM… Read More
This week in heavy music, we got the incredible new Holy Fawn album (which you can read about in Notable Releases), plus albums from Ozzy Osbourne, Bloodbath, Revocation, Fallujah, Warforged, Slugcrust, Crippled Black Phoenix, I AM, Nadja, and more (hit… Read More
TONIGHT IN NYC: My Chemical Romance, Thursday, Badflower @ Barclays Center Afropunk Festival w/ The Roots, Isaiah Rashad, Freddie Gibbs, Tierra Whack, Adekunle Gold, Doechii, BbyMutha, Butcher Brown, Kah-Lo, Pawpaw Rod, Alex Mali, Lyric Michelle, more @ Commodore Barry Park… Read More
THE AFGHAN WHIGS / PINK MOUNTAINTOPS Indie rock greats The Afghan Whigs just released their ninth album, How Do You Burn?, and begin their Wish You Were Near tour tonight in Minneapolis. Dates are with Pink Mountaintops and the NYC… Read More
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… Read More
With Queen Elizabeth II's death on Thursday, there have been a lot of tributes to her, including some from surprising sources, but one we're probably not likely to get is from The Cure's Robert Smith. A longtime anti-monarchist, Smith actually… Read More