A judge issued the strict stay-away order after the man claimed he was part of a "classified military government program" and had to contact Carpenter to save the world
Last year was huge for Saul Williams. The multi-hyphenate played the role of a preacher in the blockbuster film Sinners . A few months later, he released a collaborative album with Carlos Niño, earning him his first Grammy nomination . Now, he's announcing its followup, Leaf
As heard on their new track out today, the Raleigh post-punk band RIBS are like a harder, meaner, spacier Hold Steady, mixing classic rock riffs with Mike Wallace's spoken and shouted narration. After a long and accomplished tenure as a live act, RIBS released their debut album
The New York-born and raised musician will perform at City Hall on Thursday, June 18, following the championship parade
If you enjoy the playful, gritty greatness of acts like Smirk or Snõõper, you may already be familiar with Mesh, whose 2001 eponymous EP is a beloved, scrappy gem. We haven't heard from them since, until today. The Philly band is finally announcing their debut LP misleadingly
During the rollout to his recent album Experimental Rap , JPEGMAFIA definitely got on some of his rap peers' nerves , but he didn't piss all of them off. Case in point: JPEGMAFIA is the sole producer of O.Y.N , a new album from the great Houston underground mainstay Maxo
The singer-songwriter’s third album will feature 16 tracks, including lead single “Hit the Wall”
Way back in 2014, k.d. lang reached out to fellow singer-songwriters Neko Case and Laura Veirs to see if they wanted to make an album as a trio. Case and Veirs enthusiastically agreed, so they all started working together in Portland for a couple of years. The three of them
The Spanish visionary kicked off a two-night run at Madison Square Garden, staging a set that was part opera, part ballet, part pop extravaganza — and entirely her own
An official release of this incredibly special evening at Meltdown Festival in London is a must
The great club and R&B futurist Kelela will release her album new avatar next month, and it's shaping up to be something special. Actually, I have heard it, so I don't need to say that it's "shaping up" to be anything. It's really, really good. You should be excited. But if
Kenny Beats has been extremely busy as of late. Earlier this year he contributed production to Thundercat's Distracted and Fcukers' Ö , as well as forthcoming releases like Weezer's Gold Album and Show Me The Body's Alone Together . Now, he's fronting a new music collective
An asteroid has been officially named after the late, great Elliott Smith. Orlando Campopiano, an independent filmmaker based in Edinburgh, got the idea while listening to "Shooting Star" off Smith's posthumous album From A Basement On The Hill . He worked with Smith's estate
Just days after tearing down Warped Tour, they brought the noise to New York, and we were there
Malone poured one out for the alternative pop artist, who died in a helicopter crash in Brazil earlier this week
The singer has pleaded not guilty to charges he murdered 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez and concealed her dismembered remains in his Tesla.
Young hitmaker Lil Nas X has had a rough year. In August 2025, LAPD arrested the artist after the artist was seen dancing down Ventura Boulevard in nothing but underwear and cowboy boots. Police claimed that he charged at them and assaulting then, sending one cop to the
Over the past year, the 27-year-old musician has largely been absent from the spotlight as he’s sought treatment through rehab and time with his family after a 2025 arrest
The masked, hyperactive UK dance duo Two Shell released a surprise album called IIcons last summer, and they followed it with a pair of double-sided singles earlier this year. Now, Two Shell announce the impending release of their new album Infinite Now . It's got some
The band formed in Parazaider’s basement in 1967, and he remained a pivotal part of their sound until he was forced to step aside in 2018 to battle Alzheimer’s
According to Grant, her label at the time said, “Who’s gonna listen to this from the girl from the Contemporary Christian Music world?”
The rising singer-songwriter will release the album via Atlantic Records on July 12, featuring her breakthrough single “iloveitiloveitiloveit”
Harry Styles just returned with his new album Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally , and he's the curator of this year's Meltdown Festival , the series of shows that comes to London's Southbank Centre every year. Meltdown began last week, and it runs through June 21. As
A couple years back we published a We've Got A File On You interview with Dale Crover from Melvins, occasioned by his solo album Glossolalia . This allowed us to ask Crover about the time he starred as a young Neil Young in the 1992 "Harvest Moon" video. Here's what he told
Ariel Pink is once again asking for your attention. Pink and John Maus attended the Jan. 6, 2021 Trump rally in Washington, DC that ended when his supporters stormed the Capitol, and Pink was dropped from Mexican Summer in the immediate aftermath. That same month, Pink's
In just a few weeks, Speedy Ortiz's Sadie Dupuis will release her first solo music as Sad13 since 2020's Haunted Painting , and it's got some exciting specs. The new mixtape 1331 comprises 13 "1 minute long-ish songs," so I guess it's her very own Whack World ? Dupuis made it
Alex Lifeson and Geddy Lee are back on tour as Rush for the first time since drum god Neil Peart's death in 2020, now with Anika Nilles behind the kit. At their first show , Aimee Mann joined them onstage at the Los Angeles-area Kia Forum to sing her guest spot on "Time Stand
Onetime New Orleans rap star Mystikal has been sentenced to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to rape. In 2022, police in Louisiana arrested the 51-year-old Mystikal, whose real name is Michael Tyler, for first-degree rape, domestic abuse, battery by strangulation, false
Singer underwent surgery in 2024 that forced band off the road
Did you know that the James Beard Awards, the vaunted chef/restaurant distinction that gets mentioned on shows like Top Chef a lot, have an actual award show? Maybe you did know that. Maybe that's common knowledge, and I'm the idiot just obliviously dumping Nerds Clusters into
The New England trio Perennial have an incredibly distinctive audio-visual aesthetic. All three members tend to wear striped T-shirts designed to evoke the 1960s mod era, a historical moment that also informs their party-starting punk rock. Their live show is contagiously fun,
She almost gave up on the music biz, but her third album has finally won her the audience she deserves
Sabrina Fuentes started Pretty Sick as a rowdy grunge project, but it's constantly reinventing itself. Last year's Streetwise EP abounded with clubby sensibilities, and December's one-off single " Star " leaned into electronic mayhem. Now she's announcing her third album
Author Richie Unterberger's new Velvet Underground history Do What You Fear The Most is out this week. It surely contains many superb factoids, but one in particular will be of special interest to VU heads. The post Previously Unknown Velvet Underground Song Revealed In New
More guitar-centric and holistically Stones-y than their last outing, the latest from the World’s Greatest Rock & Roll Band is built to satisfy
Right now, onetime pop-rap hitmaker Jack Harlow is on an absolutely historic run of doing silly shit. He made a neo-soul album . He explained that neo-soul album's existence with an endlessly quotable line that he " got Blacker ." In order to facetiously prove that he knows how
Since the end of Daft Punk, Bangalter has been moving through the world unmasked — offering improvised DJ sets, hybrid creations, a new album (created for a ballet), and a stubborn refusal to be filed under any one category
The 90-minute effort will be released exclusively on Mubi this fall
“Hope has a home, and it’s time to open its doors,” reads the center’s welcome message for its grand opening in Chicago