NYC Mayor Eric Adams announced a new free concert series, Rise Up NYC, featuring ten events throughout the city's five boroughs, running through September, including performances by The LOX, Ja Rule, Mase, Marsha Ambrosius and more. The series kicked off… Read More
Buffalo ska band The Abruptors have announced a new album for Asian Man Records, Noticeably Cheerless. Release date and most info is still TBA, but they did just share its lead single, "Best Wishes, Warmest Regards," which features guest guitar… Read More
The 2022 edition of Lollapalooza is running now through Sunday (7/31), and as mentioned, it's streaming live on Hulu, with two channels on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, and one on Thursday. The stream starts at 3 PM ET on Thursday,… Read More
A new compilation paying tribute to Leonard Cohen is on the way, put together by Blue Note Records. Here It Is: A Tribute to Leonard Cohen will feature covers by Iggy Pop, Peter Gabriel, Mavis Staples, Norah Jones, Sara McLachlan,… Read More
Chicago duo Whitney have released two more singles from their upcoming album SPARK which is out September 16 via Secretly Canadian (preorder on white vinyl). "BLUE" and "TWIRL" are the third and fourth songs on the album, respectively, and come today… Read More
Los Espookys, the hilarious, surreal and bilingual series created by Julio Torres, Ana Fabrega, and Fred Armisen, is finally back with a second season after an extended pandemic delay. (The first season aired three years ago.) Season 2 premieres on… Read More
"Weird Al" Yankovic has announced Lights, Camera, Accordion!, a new visual retrospective book that will be out November 14 via 1984 Publishing. It features over 300 photographs taken over the last 45 years by Weird Al drummer Jon "Bermuda" Schwartz, including… Read More
Billy Corgan debuted a new Smashing Pumpkins song, "Photograph," inspired by the tragic July 4 mass shooting in Highland Park, IL, Stereogum reports. Billy has lived in Highland Park for years, and owns and sometimes performs solo shows at his… Read More
Earlier this year, the hardcore-informed Long Island emo band Koyo signed to Pure Noise and put out two great new singles, "Ten Digits Away" and "Straight North," and now they've done some real emo shit by putting out a string-laden… Read More
Autopsy, the veteran death metal band formed by Chris Reifert after his departure from Death, have announced their first album in eight years, Morbidity Triumphant, due September 30 via Peaceville Records (pre-order). It's their first with new bassist Greg Wilkinson… Read More