"Show me a word that rhymes with Pavement / And I won't kill your parents and roast them on a spit," Stephen Malkmus sings on "Harness Your Hopes," a Pavement b-side that is their most popular song on Spotify. "Pavement"… Read More
TONIGHT IN NYC: Phish @ Madison Square Garden Charli XCX, Baby Tate, Magdalena Bay @ Hammerstein Ballroom The Darkness, The Dead Deads @ Asbury Lanes Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Myriam Gendron @ White Eagle Hall The Story So Far, Joyce… Read More
Jason Pierce has been making the same album for over three decades. This is not a criticism. He found his calling — mixing blues, gospell, and Velvet Underground-style psychedelia into orchestral grandeur — while still in Spacemen 3 and has been spinning… Read More
Fontaines D.C.'s third album Skinty Fia opens with an elegy. Against mournful choral harmonies, frontman Grian Chatten chants "gone is the day, gone is the night," with only a single note bassline as backing. The drums eventually kick in with an almost… Read More
Fontaines D.C.'s third album Skinty Fia opens with an elegy. Against mournful choral harmonies, frontman Grian Chatten chants "gone is the day, gone is the night," with only a single note bassline as backing. The drums eventually kick in with an almost… Read More
Cynthia Albritton, the artist and onetime "super groupie" more famously known as Cynthia Plaster Caster, who was famous for making plaster casts of rock musicians' penises and breasts, has died after a long illness, reports Variety. She was 74. Among the… Read More
Weekend two of Coachella 2022 is almost here, and the festival has just announced the updated set times for this weekend's edition, which runs Friday, April 22-Sunday, April 24. One major change is that Run the Jewels have been moved… Read More
The television landscape is about to get a little indie sleaze-ier. Nicholas Braun, who you know and love as Cousin Greg on HBO's Succession, is developing a series for the network revolving around the "Meet Me in the Bathroom" era… 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
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert has cancelled Thursday night's (4/21) episode after Stephen Colbert tested positive for Covid. Ozark's Jason Bateman and Laura Linney and Veep's Matt Walsh were scheduled to appear; a repeat featuring Josh Brolin and The… Read More