HBO and Bill Simmons’ Music Box series debuted in July with the Woodstock ’99 documentary and continued this week with Jagged, the new Alison Klayman-directed documentary about Alanis Morissette‘s classic 1995 album Jagged Little Pill, which you can watch now… Read More
Rough Trade celebrated their Album of the Year lists, and their top album honoree, Dry Cleaning‘s New Long Leg (order on vinyl), with a show at The Rainbow Room on Thursday night (11/18). The very fancy space, which usually hosts cabaret… Read More
Earlier this month, Patti Smith announced an end of year hometown NYC show, happening at Brooklyn Steel on December 28. Tickets to that are now sold out, so she’s added another date in the NYC area a couple of nights… Read More
Public Enemy‘s Chuck D has released an open letter where he puts the blame for the tragedy at Travis Scott’s Astroworld, where 10 people died, on promoters Live Nation. He writes: “I cannot believe we’re at the point where I… Read More
The great underground rapper R.A.P. Ferreira kicked off the 2021 with the release of Bob’s Son on New Year’s Day, and before the year wraps up he’ll put out another album, The Light Emitting Diamond Cutter Scriptures, on November 26… Read More
There’s a new David Bowie documentary on the way that Variety reports was made from thousands of hours of rare performance footage, most of which has never been seen by the public. Brett Morgen, who made documentaries Kurt Cobain: Montage… Read More
Cassandra Jenkins has just released (An Overview on) An Overview on Phenomenal Nature, a collection of alternate takes and outtakes from her excellent 2021 album An Overview on Phenomenal Nature, along with a music video for “New Bikini (First Take).”… Read More
Omar Souleyman was arrested on terrorism charges in Turkey earlier this week. His lawyer told Agence France-Presse that he’s now been released, after being in custody for 24 hours at a police station in Şanlıurfa, then taken to a detention… Read More
This week in Indie Basement: Mr Twin Sister deliver a globe-trotting, head-spinning party album; Elbow release their most graceful record to date; Kelley Stoltz‘s great 2001 album Antique Glow gets a deluxe vinyl reissue via Third Man; Brion Starr channels… Read More
Conor Oberst‘s punk band Desaparecidos played a pair of intimate release shows for their 2015 return, Payola, in June of that year. One of those was at beloved, now shut down Bushwick DIY space Shea Stadium, and the band have… Read More