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 release 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
The Louisiana rapper entered a guilty plea to third-degree rape charges in March
Like many bands with highly dedicated fan bases who can afford to travel, Phish have a resort music festival in Mexico. The 10th anniversary edition of the jam band's annual Riviera Maya getaway is going down Jan. 27-30 of next year. It'll feature four straight nights of Trey
“He said, ‘I’m so grateful to my mother that I was introduced to your music. You’ve been the queen to me ever since,’” Twain says
Since meeting in 2015, and marrying a year later, the couple have been extremely candid about the highs and lows of their marriage
The Austin combo Guiding Light includes two members of local indiepop rising stars Touch Girl Apple Blossom , but this group jangles a bit differently. Guiding Light's lo-fi self-titled EP was full of twitchy, hyperactive post-punk — the sound of virtuosic Television guitar
Over the weekend, Primal Scream headlined Ireland's Beyond The Pale festival. For their 12 song set, the band reunited with former member Kevin Shields, who played the first My Bloody Valentine show in seven years last November. The post Kevin Shields Reunites With Primal
A Los Angeles judge excused jurors, citing misconduct by a panel member, and ordered Brown back on Thursday for the start of testimony in a new trial
There's a surfeit of post-punk bands these days; it can be hard to stand out. That's not a problem for Sweeping Promises, though. The first You Say I Romanticize single " Shooting Shadows " was a memorable banger, and its followup "Cocoon" is even better. The post Sweeping
Last month, Shannon Lay announced her new album Past The Veil and shared the title track . Now, the LA singer-songwriter is releasing a lush, placid new single called "Horizons." The post Shannon Lay – “Horizons” appeared first on Stereogum .
Ever since 2001, the smiling young collective known as the Kidz Bop Kids has offered up countless chirpy, family-friendly covers of pop hits. The Kidz Bop Kids have been through god knows how many iterations over the years. Zendaya was a Kidz Bop Kid once! So was Becky G! But
In the fall of 2020, riding high off the success of her pandemic-era classic Punisher , Phoebe Bridgers launched Saddest Factory Records, a new imprint operating under the umbrella of Dead Oceans, the indie mega-label that puts out Bridgers' own records. She's since applied the
Converge are getting busy these days. The Boston metalcore institution has been going since 1990, and they have lost no steam, ever. In fact, I'm pretty sure that 2026 is officially their busiest year. They've already released two albums, Love Is Not Enough and Hum Of Hurt ,
The ongoing shoegaze revival shows no signs of slowing down, and now we've got a trip-hop revival to go right along with it. 16 Underground, a newish LA band who have to be named at least partially after the Sneaker Pimps' one hit, are part of that. 16 Underground's members
James Keach, director of Gregg Allman: The Music of My Soul , which opens June 17 in theaters, on why he didn’t shy away from the singer’s flaws
Harmonies, baby! The playful, adventurous London trio Ebbb truly go wild with the harmonies on their new song "Side On." The track combines dazed, beatific Beach Boys-style choral oooh s with headlong jungle breakbeats, a cool juxtaposition that I don't think I've heard before.
In recent years, the art-soul explorer Dawn Richard has been venturing further and further into abstract directions, as on Quiet In A World Full Of Noise , her 2024 collaboration with Spencer Zahn. Now, she seems to be switching it up once again. Recently, Richard returned to
