Beginning with the release of their new single “androgyne friend” on the eve of December 6, Eve 6 (Max Collins vocals/bass, Jon Siebels/guitar, Ben Hilzinger/drums), will put out a song on the eve of the 6th of every month, leading up to the release of the rock trio’s self-produced fifth studio album, Hyperrelevisation [Velocity Records], […]
For Goo Goo Dolls’ John Rzeznik, he never intended to make a Christmas album, but he needed a challenge. “I think we were all looking for some sort of solace and comfort during [COVID], and I love Christmas,” the bandleader says over the phone from his New Jersey home. While he and his collaborators remained […]
Brandon Boyd hadn’t actually planned to make a record during the 2020 COVID lockdown. The frontman for Incubus was content staying in his home in the Santa Monica Mountains, painting and spending time with his girlfriend. Each afternoon during lockdown, the two of them—both die-hard musicophiles—would share their latest musical discoveries with each other. It […]
Some things are worth the wait. Throughout their nearly 40-years, 22-studio albums, 9-live albums, 10 compilation albums, 7-video albums and 21 EPs, They Might Be Giants’ new album and accompanying art book, both titled BOOK (out November 12) are—whether we knew it or not—exactly what we’ve been waiting for. BOOK (the book) features original photos by Brian […]
“It was kind of a treacherous gamble to make,” says Death Cab for Cutie bassist Nick Harmer, reflecting on their third LP, 2001’s The Photo Album. “Making it, touring it — all of that felt really charged.” That’s putting it mildly. After the mild indie-rock breakthrough of 2000’s We Have the Facts and We’re Voting Yes, […]
The late 1980s were rough on Matthew Sweet. After cutting his teeth in the Athens, Georgia college radio scene, playing in a ton of bands including Community Trolls with R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe, Oh-OK with Stipe’s sister Lynda, and the Buzz of Delight with Oh-OK drummer David Pierce, Sweet left the indie underground to sign with […]
He doesn’t want to sound Aleister Crowley-mystical, but ex-Screaming Trees frontman Mark Lanegan truly believes that there’s a certain magical energy coursing through the sinister grooves of Dark Mark vs Skeleton Joe, his new full-length collaboration with former Icarus Line anchor Joe Cardamone, using the longtime aliases they’ve adopted for various projects and performances. Trouble […]
It all started at a cemetery. To kick off 2014, Tom Morello filled in for Stevie Van Zandt in the E Street Band on Bruce Springsteen’s Africa/South Pacific tour. During a night off in Perth, Morello wandered from the hotel to pay his respects to late AC/DC singer Bon Scott by visiting his gravesite. When […]
By 1991, Soundgarden had reached a crossroads. All around them, things seemed to be in a state of flux. The Cold War had finally reached its decades-long denouement with the dismantling of the Berlin Wall, just as a new, hot one was about to kick off in the Persian Gulf. Hip hop was emerging as […]
July 8, 20212:46 PM (PT)/5:46 PM (ET) “The Pixies name came about because it was going to be a challenge to make it good,” guitarist Joey Santiago explains over Zoom. “Because Pixies…that’s not a band. That’s not a rock ‘n roll name. Unless you know that they’re mischievous, that I liked. Now you could say […]