Houston’s Necrofier formed in 2018 with members of Venomous Maximus, Oceans of Slumber, Night Cobra, and Insect Warfare, and released their debut EP Visions In Fire that same year. They later added Josh Bokemeyer (Church of Disgust) on second guitar,… Read More
Porridge Radio have covered The Shins’ life-changing single “New Slang.” It’s the b-side to the UK band’s new entry in the Sub Pop Singles Club, with the a-side being a cover of Wolf Parade’s “You Are A Runner And I… Read More
Sonya Balchandani of veteran NYC band The Big Sleep will release her solo debut as Warmyear, titled I Wear the Memory, that will be out September 1. The name Warmyear comes from a story by the late science fiction author… Read More
Camp Cope’s Georgia Maq went in a lo-fi bedroom synthpop direction on her 2019 solo album Pleaser, and now she has gone pop pop with her new song “Someone Stranger,” a collaboration with producer Alice Ivy. “Alice Ivy and I… Read More
Mike Howe, longtime vocalist of the West Coast thrash/speed/power metal band Metal Church, has passed away at age 55. No cause of death has been given. The band broke the news, writing: It is with our deepest regrets that we… Read More
Grouper (aka Liz Harris) will release a new album, Shade, on October 22 via Kranky. It’s Liz’s first Grouper album since 2018’s Grid of Points and it also follows her 2019 album as Nivhek. After two consecutive albums of piano-based… Read More
Saint Etienne will release their 10th album, I’ve Been Trying To Tell You, on September 10 via Heavenly Records. (Bob Stanley told us it would be coming sooner than later and he was not kidding.) It’s an unusual album for… Read More
Dry Cleaning have followed up this year’s excellent debut album, New Long Leg (get it on vinyl), with a new double-A-side single. The moody, hazy “Bug Eggs” and the bass-heavy “Tony Speaks!” were both recorded at Wales’ Rockfield studios during… Read More
TONIGHT IN NYC: Dan Joe DVD Show w/ Marie Faustin, Caitlin Peluffo, Nick Naney, Robert Dean @ The Bell House Girl Skin, Slow Fiction, War Violet @ Our Wicked Lady Rooftop Braxton Cook, dreamcastmoe @ Elsewhere Rooftop Hiss Golden Messenger… Read More
Psycho Las Vegas shared a revised 2021 lineup in May, after multiple artists, including Mercyful Fate, Boris, At the Gates, Katatonia, Wolves in the Throne Room, Elder, and Bömbers, were forced to postpone their sets to 2022 because of COVID-related… Read More