Metallica lives on…through 50-plus artists. The band has announced a massive reissue of their The Black Album for its 30th anniversary and another LP, The Metallica Blacklist, that doesn’t even feature them but their music – 12 songs covered by 53 artists – both of which are slated to drop Sept. 10. The album of classic […]
Disco!, the latest release from the experimental New York rapper MIKE, builds upon his somber but virtuosic style, exploring new lyrical and musical terrain through the honest lens of his writing and his burgeoning talents as a beatmaker. His previous releases, weight of the world in 2019 and tears of joy in 2020, were in […]
Heaven on earth is a year away, and it’s going to be in Southern California. Goldenvoice presents Just Like Heaven Fest, a one-day, all-ages music festival that will be held at Brookside at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California on Saturday, May 21, 2022 with a lineup that includes Interpol, Modest Mouse, M.I.A., The Shins, […]
Welcome to the second day of summer. Yesterday on the summer solstice, Lorde released a 21-second teaser of what looks like her sitting in a relaxed lotus position meditating on the sand as the sound of shore break and a strange hiss is played. The camera zooms in, she opens her eyes, draws in a […]
The legendary New York Y2K rock-revivalists the Strokes have not been shy in endorsing New York City mayoral candidate Maya Wiley throughout her campaign and have since gained an unofficial status as her personal backing artist, sans solicitation. Today, the band debuted a new song on a one-minute television ad for Wiley entitled “Starting Again.” […]
Philadelphia hardcore outfit Soul Glo announced that they signed with Epitaph Records, which comes a few days following the release of their latest EP, Vol. 2, released on Juneteenth. The three-track EP, produced by bassist Gianmarco “GG” Guerra, is the follow-up to Vol. 1 which was released this past February. In conjunction with their signing, […]
Throughout the 1990s, corporate CD clubs like Columbia House and the BMG Music Service dumped millions upon millions of compact discs on a consumer public ready to replace their vinyl collections en masse. But with an unbelievably cheap collection of great music came contracts full of semantic trickery, double asterisks, and paragraphs in parentheses. BMG […]
Lyrics to the Foo Fighters’ opening aural salvo summed up a historic night and extraordinary experience: “It’s times like these you learn to live again.” The setting was Madison Square Garden, the occasion? NYC’s first full capacity arena concert since COVID-19 lockdowns began in March 2020. There was audience speculation about New York-centric guests along […]
Dave Chappelle and the Foo Fighters are pals, that much we saw last year during their appearance on Saturday Night Live together. But at Foo Fighters’ show at Madison Square Garden on Sunday night, the first 100% capacity show in New York State since the pandemic, they took things to another level. The comedian joined the band […]
This article originally appeared in the October 1989 issue of SPIN. He looks a lot more like his mother. He’s got Rita’s apple cheeks and dimples, and a flirtatious, almost girlish smile. No intimidating stares, no tough ras sass, no prophetic, heavy-lidded ganja nods. Still, you can’t help playing the Famous Son game, studying his […]