Vagrant Records has been celebrating its 25th birthday for a while now, and the party’s first live event landed in Irvine, California on Saturday (May 28). The six-band showcase featured an afternoon and evening with Hot Rod Circuit, the Anniversary, the Get Up Kids, Thrice, Alkaline Trio and Dashboard Confessional (in that order). Thousands of […]
Three years ago, Mark Tremonti — guitarist/singer-songwriter/founding member of the rock bands Creed, Alter Bridge, and Tremonti — became absolutely obsessed with Frank Sinatra. Though he’d always been a fan of Frank’s and sang along suitably with Sinatra’s low register, this time was different. It was as if Tremonti was being deliberately pulled in Sinatra’s […]
Harry Styles broke another record: he now has the largest sales week for a vinyl album released in the U.S. since Luminate (formerly known as Nielsen SoundScan) began tracking this data in 1991. Styles’ third solo album, Harry’s House, sold 182,000 copies in its opening week. The previous record-holder was Taylor Swift’sRed, Taylor’s Version, which […]
COVID be damned, welcome to peak season for music festival rats. I’m one of them and have attended scores of festivals around the world. But I’ve never done “the camping thing,” and it was time for that to change. After all, like so many others during the pandemic, and inspired by the much hash-tagged romantic […]
Elvis Costello has re-teamed with old friend Allan Mayes to record for the first time music they once performed back in the early 1970s in the band Rusty. The six-track EP Rusty: The Resurrection of Rust will be released by Capitol on streaming platforms on June 10, with a CD release following on July 1. […]
Ronnie Hawkins, the rockabilly musician who would serve as a mentor to The Band, has died at the age of 87. Hawkins’ wife Wanda confirmed the news to The Canadian Press (via the CBC). “He went peacefully and he looked as handsome as ever,” she said. Born in Huntsville, Arkansas on January 10, 1935, Hawkins […]
It’s been a big calendar for Japanese Breakfast and an even bigger past two weeks. Last June, Michelle Zauner released her breakthrough album, Jubilee, to deserved accolades, and before that, she released her book Crying in H Mart which is now being adapted into a film. The album was ranked as our second-best album of […]
A few months ago, members of Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Soundgarden formed a new group called 3rd Secret and out of seemingly nowhere, dropped a new album. The secrets keep coming as Krist Novoselic, Kim Thayil and Matt Cameron-led vehicle shared a new video for “Rhythm of the Ride.” The song was recorded by Erik […]
Angel Olsen has released a stirring cover of Bob Dylan’s “One Too Many Mornings” from his classic 1964 album The Times They Are a-Changin.’ Olsen’s rendition is featured in the season finale and soundtrack of the Apple TV thriller based on Lauren Beukes’ best-selling novel, Shining Girls. The series stars Elisabeth Moss as a Chicago newspaper […]
The best hockey player in the history of Letterkenny, Ontario is back in action. From the hicks, skids and degens who made Letterkenny a stunningly big cult hit, Shoresy is a hockey-based spinoff following the foul-mouthed player of the same name. For those out of the loop, the popular Canadian sitcom created by Jared Keeso […]