Motion City Soundtrack’s Justin Courtney Pierre already released the very good An Anthropologist On Mars EP this year (read our review), and now he’ll release a second EP of 2021, The Price of Salt, on July 9 via Epitaph (pre-order).… Read More
Singaporean pop-r&b singer-songwriter, composer and producer Amni Musfirah is rapidly conquering the loyalty of the genres’ fans with a latest single unveiled to the public, “Vacation.” Displaying her seductive and dazzling vocal capabilities, “Vacation” is an electro-pop-r&b banger raising the… Read More
Willie Nelson has been hosting the Outlaw Music Festival tour for the last few years and after taking 2020 off for obvious reasons, he’s bringing it back this year to outdoor amphitheaters all over the U.S. Joining him at various… Read More
French post-rock/post-metal greats Year Of No Light are celebrating their 20th anniversary this year, and in honor of that, they’ll release the discography box set Mnemophobia on July 2 via Pelagic Records, along with their first proper album since 2013’s… Read More
Duran Duran were on Sunday night’s Billboard Music Awards and performed a medley that included new single “Invisible” sandwiched by ’80s hits “Notorious” and “Hungry Like the Wolf.” Blur‘s Graham Coxon, who co-wrote and plays on “Invisible” was on-hand, playing with… Read More
Modest Mouse have shared the second single off their upcoming album The Golden Casket and announced a tour. Following the funk-punk-infused “We Are Between,” new single “Leave A Light On” explores MM’s more atmospheric side. Check it out below. The… Read More
Jack Terricloth, the leader of Brooklyn’s unpigeonholeable World/Inferno Friendship Society, sadly passed away at the age of 50 earlier this month. Musicians, including Laura Jane Grace, Jeff Rosenstock, Craig Finn, Franz Nicolay, Damian Abraham, and Michael Grace, paid tribute to… Read More
Edgar Wright has two movies due out this year. First is his fantastic Sparks documentary, The Sparks Brothers, which hits theaters June 18. He’s also got his sixth narrative feature, psychological thriller Last Night in Soho, which stars The Queen’s… Read More
Dua Lipa has issued a response after a full-page ad in the New York Times accused her, and Bella and Gigi Hadid of antisemitism. The Washington Post reports that “In the rambling ad which appeared in Saturday’s newspaper in the… Read More
In Defense of the Genre is a column on BrooklynVegan about punk and its many offshoots, including and often especially the bands and albums and subgenres that weren’t always taken so seriously. This list looks at some of the genre’s… Read More