Australian rapper/singer Tkay Maidza will follow 2020’s Last Year Was Weird, Vol. 2 with the third and final EP in the series, Last Year Was Weird, Vol. 3 , on July 9 via 4AD/Dew Process. The EP includes her excellent… Read More
Counting Crows returned this year with Butter Miracle Suite One, the first part of a two-part album (part 2 is due out in the fall) that’s their first new music since 2014. The four interconnected songs on Butter Miracle, which… Read More
Deer Tick and pals Delta Spirit are heading out on the road together this fall for the “Friend Ship tour.” Things kick off in San Diego on October 30 and the tour also hits Santa Ana, Los Angeles (Fonda Theater… Read More
Back in December, we shared the sad news that independent Texas music promoters Margin Walker, who we partnered with for three years of SXSW parties (and were about to again for a fourth year when COVID struck), were shutting down.… Read More
NY Governor Cuomo gave Broadway the go-ahead to open in September, but shows will actually return to the Great White Way before that. Bruce Springsteen is coming back to Broadway for a limited summer run of his acclaimed 2018 one-man,… Read More
Devo have announced their only two headlining shows of the year, this fall in NYC and LA. “We look forward to performing live again,” they say. “It’s been quite a while sine we’ve PERFORMED LIVE and we’re excited to be… Read More
Pick up Citizen’s new album on blue/green swirl vinyl. Citizen returned this year with their great fourth album, Life In Your Glass World (Run For Cover), which finds the Michigan post-hardcore band injecting some mid 2000s style dance-punk into their… Read More
Militarie Gun (the lighter post-hardcore band of Regional Justice Center leader Ian Shelton with members of Drug Church and Modern Color) recently released their first of two 2021 EPs, All Roads Lead To The Gun, and they’ve also announced a… Read More
Whatever you thought you knew about Wristmeetrazor, their new album Replica of a Strange Love is here to change that. “This is a new benchmark,” said Isaac Hale of Knocked Loose, a longtime fan and friend of the band, and… Read More
The DC punk/hardcore documentary Punk The Capital had a bunch of screenings in 2019 and 2020, and now it’s getting a Blu-ray/DVD release on June 12 in the US for Record Store Day via Passion River and on July 12… Read More