If you’re a fan of the Mars Volta and a vinyl collector, boy do we have some good news for you. The iconic duo and curly-haired portion of At the Drive-In have announced a massive career-spanning vinyl-only box set comprised of 18 LPs called La Realidad De Los Sueños (“the reality of dreams,” for those of you […]
Rage Against the Machine guitarist/activist Tom Morello is usually a man of many words but in a response to a Twitter user who accused him of “white man privilege” on Wednesday, he gave a simple answer to the accusation. His reply? “I’m not white.” The guitarist sent the message to Twitter user @TheRealNubian2, who had criticized […]
Yoko Ono Lennon will celebrate 50 years of the John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band — a record Lennon described as “the best thing I’ve ever done” — with the release of a massive eight-disc super-deluxe box set. The 159-track, 11-hour collection, which boasts 87 never-before-heard recordings, arrives April 16 via and Capitol/UMe. The ultimate mix of “Mother” launches the album as […]
Onstage, Serj Tankian is a tornado of energy, his intense passion and informed vitriol delivered pointedly in System of a Down songs like “Toxicity” and “Chop Suey!” His unique staccato vocal style, influenced by innovators including Frank Zappa and Mike Patton, is a potent accompaniment to System’s dynamic and powerful post-metal musicality. Yet on his new […]
When the Spill Canvas released Gestalt in 2012, it was the seventh full-length album for frontman Nick Thomas since he’d adopted the moniker a decade earlier. Nine years later, Thomas and the band — featuring two new members — are finally ready to release the follow-up with Conduit, an album title that had been rumored […]
Metallica celebrated their groundbreaking Master Of Puppets record on the LP’s 35th birthday by performing its epic opening track, “Battery,” on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert on March 3. When Colbert introduced the song, he noted that Master of Puppets had “such an impact that it was added to National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress.” […]
Sharon Van Etten’s epic was one of the best albums of the 2010s. Last year, the album turned 10 and to celebrate its (now) 11th anniversary, the set is getting a pretty great tribute. epic Ten will be released as a double anniversary album, with one part featuring the original and the other containing an all-star cast of […]
It’s hard to overstate just how big the problem of the unexpected second villain of our global annus horribilis – the “murder hornet” – could be. Its body is the size of a bloated cheese-puff, its wingspan as wide as your palm. These rusty-orange-colored insects aren’t just the largest hornets in the world, they are […]
If you’ve been eagerly waiting for a new St. Vincent album since 2017’s award-winning Masseduction (and the reimagined versions of the album that followed it), you won’t have to wait much longer. Daddy’s Home, the sixth album from art rocker Annie Clark, will be out on May 14 on Loma Vista Recordings. But as Clark teased on social […]
Ian Brown isn’t a fan of the lockdown and is outspoken as Van Morrison and numerous others as the “pro-COVID” musicians who seem to be all for letting the disease run rampant for as long as humanly possible. After stating last Friday that he would “NEVER EVER” play a show with a vaccination requirement, the Stone […]