James Rettig

Pearl Jam performed in London’s Hyde Park on Saturday night, and Johnny Marr opened the concert for them. Marr stuck around and came out twice during Pearl Jam’s set. He appeared for the first time to play with the band on “Throw Your Hatred Down,” a track off Neil Young’s 1995 album Mirror Ball,  » Read More

Death Cab For Cutie and Bob Mould both performed as SummerFest in Milwaukee yesterday on the same stage, only a few hours apart, and those close quarters resulted in something fun. During Mould’s afternoon set, Ben Gibbard came out at the very end to perform Hüsker Dü’s “Makes No Sense At All”  » Read More

The Boston band Really From have announced that they are going on an indefinite hiatus and playing a pair of farewell shows this fall. “For the past eight years, this band has been the center of our creative pursuits and endeavors,” the group wrote in a statement. “As five friends who have managed to craft a sound that is an honest and authentic representation of who we are as musicians […]

Rage Against The Machine’s big reunion tour — with support from Run The Jewels — was first announced back in February 2020, but kept getting delayed due to the pandemic. The tour finally got started last night with a show in East Troy, Wisconsin at the Alpine Valley Music Theater —  » Read More

In a couple months, the xx’s Oliver Sim is releasing his debut solo album, Hideous Bastard. He’s shared a handful of tracks from it already — “Romance With A Memory,” “Fruit,” and “Hideous” — and today he’s back with another one called “  » Read More

“That doesn’t make any sense what you just said.” Toward the end of “Unto Caesar,” Swing Lo Magellan’s penultimate track, Amber Coffman speaks out loud a common criticism of Dirty Projectors: that they’re inscrutable and self-indulgent, that leader Dave Longstreth embraces idiosyncrasy just for the sake of it. This is all true.  » Read More

A previously unreleased Steely Dan cover of Joni Mitchell’s Blue song “Carey” has been unearthed. As The Dan Vault‘s YouTube channel points out, the radio host Steve Acri played the track on Pittsburgh Freeform radio earlier today, and it seems to be its on-air debut. The cover was initially intended for a tribute album to Joni Mitchell that was scheduled to be released in 2001,  » Read More

Later this month, Joey Bada$$ is releasing 2000, the sequel of sorts to his 2012 mixtape 1999, which celebrated its 10th anniversary last month. The album was originally supposed to come out closer to that anniversary date, but got pushed back due to sample clearance issues.  » Read More

A couple years ago, Palm’s Eve Alpert and Kasra Kurt released a song under the name Kassie Krut, which was included on a mixtape for the Philadelphia label Nino Tomorrow. They’ve played a few shows since then, and Matt Anderegg — who has clocked time in Mothers and Body Meat —  » Read More