James Rettig

Michelle Branch was arrested for misdemeanor domestic assault early Thursday morning, as TMZ reports. Police were called to the Nashville home she shares with for-now husband Patrick Carney around 2AM, and Branch admitted that she had slapped Carney in the face “one or two times.” Around 30 minutes before the police arrived,  » Read More

Tegan And Sara’s memoir High School has been turned into a television series. The show will debut on October 14 via Amazon’s Freevee service, and before that it will have its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival next month. Today, High School has just gotten its first teaser trailer.  » Read More

Earlier this year, the Boston band Vundabar released their fifth full-length album, Devil For The Fire. Today, they’re announcing a collection of previously unreleased tracks called Good Old — it includes seven songs that were recorded between 2015 and 2017, plus four acoustic versions of older songs.  » Read More

Italians Do It Better has continued to chug along over the past year, even after the label lost one of their signature acts as Chromatics disbanded and its non-Johnny Jewel members all pursued projects on their own. Jewel and Megan Louise are still running the IDIB ship, though, and today they’ve released a new entry in their long-running After Dark compilation series.  » Read More

Joseph Arthur has sued the Los Angeles Times over a 2021 article that characterized the musician as an anti-vaxxer. As Rolling Stone reports, the $25 million defamation suit claims that the LA Times “deliberately excluded and misrepresented Arthur’s position and falsely portrayed him as a radical anti-vaxxer,  » Read More

Bill Pitman, a guitarist associated with the collective of studio musicians known as the Wrecking Crew, has died at age 102. The New York Times reports that Pitman passed away on Thursday after an extended stay at a rehabilitation center due to a fall that resulted in a fractured spine.  » Read More

On top of their regularly-scheduled singles series, Adult Swim occasionally releases compilations highlighting specific music scenes and genres. The past few years has seen comps dedicated to electronic, jazz, metal, and dream-pop. Their latest shines a light on the exciting Japanese rock scene.  » Read More

PinkPantheress, one of the most exciting artists to come out of 2021, has spent the last few months teaming up with the likes of WILLOW and Mura Masa, and she also remixed a Drake song with GoldLink. She’s back again today with a new collaboration with producer Sam Gellaitry,  » Read More

Earlier this year, Cordae released his second studio album From A Birds Eye View, which boasted guest features from Eminem, Stevie Wonder, Gunna, and more and laid bare the prestige-rap problem. Today, Cordae is back with his first new music since then, a pair of singles called “Unacceptable”  » Read More