The kids are not all right, according to the internet. Gen Z, and I suppose now Gen Alpha, is/are experiencing anxiety and depression at unprecedented levels. Most of this is a reasonable reaction to the fact that we are inhabitants of a self-immolating rock hurtling towards extinction; and to the latest terrible news about (please […]
Gorillaz have gathered another highly eclectic cast of collaborators for their ninth album, The Mountain, which will be released March 20 on the Damon Albarn-led band’s new KONG label. Lead track “The Happy Dictator” features sibling pop auteurs Sparks and can be sampled below. Among the other artists lending a hand on the 15-track The […]
King Princess is ready to take the next step with fans: getting matching tattoos. On Sept. 13, one day after the release of her latest music manifesto, Girl Violence, the New York-based artist, aka KP aka Mikaela Straus, is hosting a global flash event in partnership with select women- and LGBTQ-led tattoo shops in the […]
From 1969 to 1979, a series of field recordings appeared on the Atlantic label under the title Environments. Song titles included “The Psychologically Ultimate Seashore” and “Dawn in New Hope, Pennsylvania” (which would have made a dynamite title for a Ween album), presenting painstakingly recorded sonic representations of places and the sound-worlds they produce. The […]
Following a triumphant six-date tour of sold-out North American stadiums, System of a Down will play seven more dates in Europe next summer, beginning June 29 in Stockholm. Queens of the Stone Age and Acid Bath will support through a July 18 finale in Warsaw. The Serj Tankian-led group is planning an additional special show […]
Rap duo Armand Hammer (billy wods and ELUCID) has teamed with producer the Alchemist for a new album, Mercy, which will be released Nov. 7 through Backwoodz Studioz and distributed by Rhmesayers Entertainment. Mercy is the follow-up to the artists’ 2021 album Haram, which included one song co-produced by Earl Sweatshirt. Woods also recently released […]
It’s hard to explain if you weren’t there. I was there, though. It was one of the few times that I was there for one of those things you had to be there for. It was 2010-ish, in the steaming-hot basement of the First Unitarian Church of Philadelphia, a landmark venue for the city’s music […]
** Rancid, Pennywise, Lagwagon, GBH, the Bronx and FEAR are among the acolytes contributing covers to the album Killed by Deaf – A Punk Tribute to Motörhead, which will be released Oct. 31 through BMG Recordings. The first single is a previously unreleased 2002 collaboration between Motörhead and the Damned on the latter’s “Neat Neat […]
Westerns feel good, feel right, in volatile, contested times. But not just any Westerns — not kitsch dross like Joel Souza’s Rust, which even a real-life blood curse can’t make matter. No: we’re talking feral sagas of de-civilization which burn like a dirty-ass Book of Job, scorched to the bone with Job’s question, “Why did […]
In a private show at the El Rey Theatre in Hollywood Friday night, Cage the Elephant treated fans to an epic warm-up performance in advance of their Rose Bowl show supporting Oasis the following day. The lion’s share of the El Rey tickets went to winners of a special KROQ contest. Cage’s set opened with […]