Ground was broken on the first-ever museum dedicated to hip hop, The Bronx's Universal Hip Hop Museum, last year, and now NYC Mayor Eric Adams has pledged new funding to it. The $5.5 million investment includes $2 million from Adams,… Read More

Okay Kaya has announced a new album, SAP, due out November 4 via Jagjaguwar. Kaya Wilkins wrote, performed, engineered, and produced the album, and it also features guest appearances from Nick Hakim, deem spencer, Taja Cheek of L’Rain, Adam Green… Read More

Summer in NYC means Rocks Off Concert Cruises and there are some good ones in the punk and ska realm coming up this month and next. There are TWO on August 12, including NYHC vets Murphy's Law doing their annual… Read More

DJ Kool Herc, who's credited with birthing hip hop during his 1970s parties at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronx, has teamed with Christie's for an online auction of memorabilia, including an old sound system, turntables, records, a film projector,… Read More

Earlier this year, Mike Kinsella and his cousin/American Football bandmate Nate Kinsella launched their new band Lies with two new songs, and now they've released a third, "Summer Somewhere." It's a pulsating, synthy art pop song, and Mike Kinsella's unmistakable… Read More

Local H will be celebrating the 20th anniversary of their 2002 album Here Comes the Zoo on tour this fall. These are "An Evening With Local H" shows, and they'll be playing the album in full, plus a set songs… Read More

Denver crust/deathgrinders Vermin Womb (who are fronted by Primitive Man's Ethan McCarthy and also feature members of Ethan's former band Clinging to the Trees of a Forest Fire) have announced their sophomore album, Retaliation, following 2016's Decline. It was recorded… Read More

TONIGHT IN NYC: Khruangbin, Vieux Farka Touré @ BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival mewithoutYou, Why? @ Warsaw Norah Jones, Regina Spektor @ Forest Hills Stadium Homeboy Sandman, Deca @ Baby's All Right Club Quarantine Live ft. D-Nice & special guests Ashanti,… Read More

Here's a roundup of recent tour news. Check the Tour Dates category for more. LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM Former Fleetwood Mac singer/guitarist/songwriter Lindsey Buckingham is on tour in Europe and the UK in September and October, and on returning to the states has a… 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… Read More