** Australian singer/songwriter Courtney Barnett is eyeing a March 27 release for her fourth Mom+Pop Music album, Creature of Habit, and has also revealed a new single, “Site Unseen,” with a vocal assist from Waxahatchee (aka Katie Crutchfield) . See the video below. Per her rep, Barnett wrote Creature of Habit “in the wake of […]
1991 was a transformative year for rock music, a time when alternative rock and heavy metal entered a new era of commercial dominance. Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Soundgarden ushered in the explosion of Seattle grunge alongside blockbuster albums by Metallica, R.E.M. and Red Hot Chili Peppers, to say nothing of influential indie classics by My […]
The recently postponed psych-rock and shoegaze festival Desert Stars in Joshua Tree faced the same fate as many events in 2020 — die out or go digital. This week the festival announced that they’ve chosen the latter, opting to host a virtual version of the festival with streamed performances from headliners, Mercury Rev, Alex Maas […]