Alex Ridha, the Berlin-based producer who performs as Boys Noize, has had an unusually varied year. He’s been opening for Nine Inch Nails on the Peel It Back tour (hailed as one of the best live shows of 2025), co-produced the Grammy-winning TRON: Ares soundtrack alongside Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, and still manages to […]
Thundercat again pays tribute to his late friend Mac Miller on “She Knows Too Much,” the latest song to emerge from his upcoming Brainfeeder album, Distracted. The song is accompanied by a heartwarming and hilarious animated video directed by Léa Esmaili and produced by Blinkink. “She Knows Too Much” finds Thundercat in a familiar predicament: […]
During the year in which its hugely influential 1996 album Fantastic Planet turns 30, Failure will not only release its fourth LP since reuniting in 2014 after a 17-year hiatus but also return to the road in support of it this spring. Location Lost is out April 24 on the band’s own Failure Records imprint […]
Electronic trio RÜFÜS DU SOL will play a series of super-sized North American venues on its summer tour, which begins June 10 in Kansas City, Mo., and runs through Sept. 5 in Toronto. Tickets will be available for presale on Feb. 24, with the general onsale to follow two days later. Itinerary highlights include a visit […]
Sitting in his orange-tinted studio on the outskirts of London, Zak Starkey’s face is half-hidden behind a beautifully painted mug. His hair, however, is fully on display with a couple of deliberate cowlicks perched at the top. He knows he has a good haircut. He mentions it more than a few times, and it becomes […]
Merrill Nisker, professionally known as Peaches, is in what she calls her “backstage booties” at a venue in London’s Kentish Town neighborhood. She’s here to perform “Cuntology 101” with Lambrini Girls, a track she’s remixed for the super-hot group. Her blond and brown hair is shaved with a tuft, the rest bushy and cascading down […]
On a stage draped with pieces of gauzy white fabric, Cate Le Bon enters to a mesmerizing wall of sound. Like the rest of her band, she is dressed in white, and swaying behind the microphone as she begins a song called “Jerome.” Her voice rises softly from the swirling, surreal music, with lyrics grappling […]
Having just debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with his long-awaited album The Fall Off, rapper J. Cole has announced his most extensive world tour since 2017-2018. The arena trek will begin July 11 in Charlotte, N.C., and will pause briefly after a Sept. 23 show in Fayetteville, N.C., before resuming in Europe […]
Tool is hoping to release a new album in 2027 and support it with a residency at the next-level Sphere in Las Vegas, drummer Danny Carey told Spiral Out in a video interview. It would be the follow-up to 2019’s Fear Innculum, which was the band’s third consecutive No. 1 on the Billboard 200. Responding […]
Manchester Orchestra drummer Tim Very has passed away at the age of 42 from unknown causes, according to a social media post from the band. “The most beloved human being any of us were lucky enough to know in this life. We’ve all been dreading sharing this news as we are all still in absolute […]