Nine Inch Nails will reprise their dazzling Peel It Back tour in U.S. arenas next year, beginning Feb. 5 in New Orleans and concluding March 16 in Sacramento, Ca. The opening act will again be electronic musician Boys Noize, who also performed during portions of Nine Inch Nails’ sets at the recent shows. The two […]
Mike Frazier doesn’t waste time. A title card flashes over footage of him opening a garage door: “The Belly Is In the Brain.” It immediately cuts to Frazier, now seated and centered in the frame. “For two years I felt debilitating nausea, chronic pain, and the worst mental health crisis of my life.” As he […]
“I felt like there was something that needed to be said in this moment,” says Anna Canoni. The person to say it, however, turned out to be her grandfather, Woody Guthrie, who died in 1967. The new album Woody at Home – Vol. 1 + 2 features over an hour of the legendary folk singer […]
It’s an eventful day in the world of North Carolina indie duo Sylvan Esso, who have released their first single in three years, “WDID,” and pledged to remove their digital catalog from Spotify. The confrontational cut is the first to be released on their own label, Psychic Hotline. “As we prepare to release new music, […]
There was a stretch in 1990 when our Saturdays belonged to midnight showings of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. My friends and I would don our best bondage gear and join the long queue outside the Nuart Theatre in West Los Angeles, waiting in “anticipation” to belt out the cult musical’s songs while performing the […]
French musician Melody Prochet’s fourth album as Melody’s Echo Chamber, Unclouded, will arrive Dec. 5 from Domino Records and, as previously reported, was produced and co-written with Swedish musician Sven Wunder. A new song, “In the Stars,” is out now. “The music I create unusually inhabits the liminal zone between realism and fables,” says Prochet. […]
Though he began releasing music in the early ’90s, Jeff Tweedy has been a steady, calming force for aging indie fans for the past 20 years. After kicking a painkiller addiction and seemingly moving past the anxiety that fueled early Wilco classics such as Summerteeth and Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Tweedy has mainly explored warm, genial […]
Shoegaze heroes Hum and Chapterhouse will reunite for the third Slide Away festival, which is organized by Philadelphia band Nothing and will visit Brooklyn, N.Y., Chicago and Los Angeles in May 2026. It will be Hum’s first shows since 2019 and the 2021 death of drummer Bryan St. Pere, while Chapterhouse will be on stage […]
Bad Bunny will be the first Puerto Rican artist to headline Apple Music’s Super Bowl Halftime Show on Feb. 8 at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, Ca. The news was revealed tonight (Sept. 28) following weeks of speculation about potential stars Taylor Swift and Adele. “What I’m feeling goes beyond myself,” said the artist, who […]
Yusuf/Cat Stevens has canceled a North American book tour in support of his memoir Cat on the Road to Findout due to visa issues. The events were to feature conversations and stripped-down performances and were set to begin Thursday (Oct. 2) in Philadelphia. “Waiting months for visa approvals, we held out as long as we […]