Fans walk into a concert thinking about the moment the lights drop, not the rows of trucks that got everything there. They chase the setlist, not the cords and scaffolding lining the backlot. The headliner gets the scream, but somebody else has already built the entire world the crowd steps into. After forty years of […]
Pigeons Playing Ping Pong is a unique star, a bright constellation within the multiverse of jam bands. This Maryland-bred quartet fuses funk, rock, and electrifying showmanship into what they call “high-energy psychedelic funk.” Since forming in 2009 at the University of Maryland, they’ve built a devoted following through relentless touring (as many as 200 shows […]
“The key that makes this product different” — came the excited voice, riding the dual stimulants of artisanal coffee shop caffeine and San Francisco Bay ocean air — “is it’s about human-to-human interaction. Having conversations face-to-face just like this.” I spotted the animated tech founder’s hands gesticulating in front of the stoic nodding chin of […]
Billie Eilish and James Cameron push the limits of technology in the first trailer for HIT ME HARD AND SOFT: THE TOUR (LIVE IN 3D), which will be released March 20 by Paramount, Darkroom Records, Interscope Films and Lightstorm Entertainment. Watch the clip below. “We’re using tech that’s never been used before,” Cameron says at […]
Courtney Love opens up about her life on and offstage in the new documentary Antiheroine, which will premiere early next year at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah. The event runs from Jan. 22 to Feb. 1 and is the last in Park City and Salt Lake City before uprooting to Boulder, Co., in 2027. […]
The first new Afghan Whigs music since their 2022 album How Do You Burn? has arrived today (Dec. 10) in the surprising form of covers of Minneapolis indie pop band Poliça’s “Fake Life” and U.K. duo Still Corners’ “Downtown.” See visualizers for the recordings below. “Both of these songs were born out of soundcheck jams,” […]
Sometimes you don’t have enough tracks for an album, but you want to put more music out into the world than a single. The EP is the awkward middle child of musical formats, but it’s endlessly useful for acts at every level of the industry, from rising new artists to one-off collaborations and experimental detours […]
When Mike Sartain, who released his latest EP, Push On Through, in April and goes by the stage name Sartain, saw the back cover of Rancid’s 1994 album Let’s Go for the first time, in ninth grade — with a mohawked, leather-clad Tim Armstrong flipping off the camera — he knew that everything he had […]
Amsterdam-based Turkish psych purveyors Altin Gün mine the catalog Anatolian legend Neşet Ertaş for the source material on their new album, Garip, which will be released Feb. 20 through ATO Records. Ertaş penned hundreds of songs and recorded more than 30 albums from 1957 onwards and is revered for updating the ashik folk tradition for […]
In the life and work of artist Shepard Fairey, social justice and the musical counterculture have always collided, igniting many of his most striking images. Most famously, they have come in the form of 18-by-24-inch posters, with messages against police violence, war, and government surveillance, and calling for peace, civil rights, and multiculturalism. There are […]