Tom Breihan

Until recently, Scottish rockers the View, best-known for the 2007 UK hit “Same Jeans,” had been on hiatus since 2017. Since then, frontman Kyle Falconer released a pair of solo albums. Last year, the View got back together and played a few shows, and they’ve got plans to release a new album called Exorcism Of Youth in August.  » Read More

In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present.  » Read More

A year and a half ago, Zach Bryan was still in the Navy. Last night, he spent two hours leading what must be the loudest big-room singalongs I’ve ever heard. Popular taste is a fascinating, mercurial thing, but even by its own chaotic standards, nobody saw Zach Bryan coming. Zach Bryan didn’t even see himself coming.  » Read More

Long before he was arguably the biggest pop star on the planet, Bad Bunny was a gigantic wrestling fan. He’s carried that fandom with him ever since, dancing alongside luminaries like Ric Flair and Booker T in his videos. Over the past few years, Bad Bunny has gone from wrestling fan to participant.  » Read More

The Detroit country-rock trio Bonny Doon backed up Waxahatchee on her Saint Cloud album and tour, and now they’re getting ready to release their own LP Let There Be Music. We’ve already posted Bonny Doon’s songs “San Francisco,” “Crooked Creek,”  » Read More

For more than a year, Phoebe Bridgers has been coming out onstage to the strains of Disturbed’s 2000 nü-metal anthem “Down With The Sickness,” better known to some of us as “the one where the guy goes ‘ooh-wah-ah-ah-ah!'” This past weekend, Bridgers played her first dates as the opener on Taylor Swift’s Eras tour,  » Read More

The sound of sincere, passionate heart-on-sleeve ’90s hardcore isn’t terribly fashionable right now, but there are at least a few bands who still use that style to rip their souls open: One Step Closer, Broken Vow, Magnitude, a few others. Florida’s Envision definitely belong on that list. Envision, whose members are not shy about their straight-edge and vegan perspectives,  » Read More

Last year, the indie singer and songwriter Nina Nastasia returned from a traumatic decade-long hiatus with her album Riderless Horse. A few months ago, Nastasia teamed up with her friend Marissa Paternoster — whose band Screaming Females recently released their own badass album Desire Pathway —  » Read More

Last year, the young Florida rap great Denzel Curry released a truly impressive album called Melt My Eyez See Your Future. Today, Curry has revisited a bunch of the tracks from that album on the new Spotify-exclusive Live At Electric Lady session. Curry recorded Live At Electric Lady with the Cold Blooded Soul Band,  » Read More