Tom Breihan

Last year, the Maryland rapper and producer redveil released his breakout album learn 2 swim on his 18th birthday. Since then, redveil has become a rising star and a full-time touring act. Tomorrow, redveil turns 19. Today, 364 days after learn 2 swim, redveil has come out with a new EP that pushed his style in new directions.  » Read More

In a few weeks, the Philadelphia-based musician and Friendship/Hour member Michael Cormier-O’Leary will release his new album Anything Can Be Left Behind. Cormier-O’Leary recorded the LP with friends in a rented house in Westport, Massachusetts, and he says that his main inspirations were Mary Margaret O’Hara and John Prine.  » Read More

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Berkeley punk legends Rancid, literally my favorite band of all time, have never broken up or gone inactive, but they tend to go long stretches without releasing new music. Rancid’s last album was Trouble Maker, which came out way back in 2017. The band keeps touring, and its members keep themselves busy;  » Read More

Later this spring, art-pop titan Christine And The Queens will release the new album PARANOÏA, ANGELS, TRUE LOVE. Christine recorded the new LP with mega-producer Mike Dean, and it’s got multiple collaborations with both Madonna and 070 Shake. We’ve already posted first single “To be honest,”  » Read More

Frank Ocean headlined Coachella. It happened. Before Ocean took the festival’s main stage last night, there was a whole lot of speculation on whether the set would even happen, even though Ocean was initially announced as this year’s headliner three years ago. Most of the world didn’t get to watch Ocean’s return to the stage,  » Read More

Goat, the Swedish psych-rock band who play extremely fun and percussive live shows while wearing freaky masks, came back last fall with Oh Death, their first new LP in six years. Today, they’ve followed that album with a new remix EP called Seu Sangue.  » Read More

Lyrical Lemonade, the blog and media company founded by the big-deal music-video director Cole Bennett, has been putting on its Summer Smash festival in Chicago for the past few years, and this year’s lineup has just dropped. You could look at Summer Smash as a mini-Rolling Loud, a place where young and mosh-happy rap fans can go see their favorite insurgent acts without worrying about any dusty relics trying to […]

It feels like Southern California’s Initiate have been one of the most promising bands on the hardcore landscape for years and years. Today, Initiate make good on all that promise. After their 2018 LP Before Long… and their great 2020 EP Lavender, Initiate have come out with their new album Cerebral Circus,  » Read More