Temperatures skyrocketed into the 90s on Tuesday, but Brooklyn rap greats Digable Planets kept things cool (like dat) on Elsewhere Rooftop with a fun, funky show. Ishmael "Butterfly" Butler (who admitted it had been a long time since he was… Read More
The Strokes were recently forced to cancel their Boston Calling set scheduled for Saturday (5/28) and postpone their Chicago club show scheduled for Monday (5/30) because of a positive Covid case in the band. They've now announced that their Primavera… Read More
Seattle indie rock stalwarts BOAT are back with their seventh album, No Plans to Stick the Landing, which will be out June 24 via Magic Marker Records. The album was produced and mixed by the band's Jackson Justice Long and features a… 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
If life was fair, Max & Igorr Cavalera would be playing their 1989 & 1991 material to thousands each night, but instead the Sepultura co-founders are touring their iconic thrash metal material to much smaller venues. But we're definitely not… 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
Houston emo/screamo band Overo (who share members with football, etc) recently released their very good new album Waiting For The End To Begin on Middle-Man Records, and they've now got a new video for one of its many highlights, "Never."… Read More
Dave Smith, who created the Prophet-5 synthesizer and pioneered the use of MIDI, has died. His company, Sequential, shared the sad news, writing, "It is with heavy hearts that we share the news that Dave Smith has died. We’re heartbroken,… Read More
As mentioned, Angel Olsen's new album Big Time is accompanied by a film of the same name that she worked on with director Kimberly Stuckwisch. It's already screened at events in London and Los Angeles, and the official premiere is… Read More
UK death metal legends Carcass brought their tour supporting last year's great Torn Arteries to Brooklyn's Elsewhere on May 25, not long after playing a headlining set at Oblivion Access in Austin and shortly before wrapping up the trek at… Read More