Tom Breihan

“That song didn’t seem so fast when I was 16.” Gorilla Biscuits singer Anthony Civarelli, better known to most of the world as Civ, isn’t 16 anymore. Last month in Richmond, Civ had just finished ranting his way through one of the short and delirious bursts of indignation that his band recorded decades earlier —  » Read More

Since the beginning of the pandemic, people have evidently forgotten how to act in live music situations. Nobody should need to be told not to throw things at pop stars while they’re performing, and yet it keeps happening — Lady Gaga getting beaned with a stuffed Dr. Simi, Harry Styles taking a Skittle to the eye.  » Read More

Two years ago, Oklahoma City noise-rock titans Chat Pile joined forces with Texan screamo wraiths Portrayal Of Guilt to release a ferocious split 7″. This was my first exposure to Chat Pile, but it would not be my last. Since then, Chat Pile have dropped the underground-smash opus God’s Country,  » Read More

Nicki Minaj isn’t beefing with everyone. A few months ago, the fast-rising Bronx rap star Ice Spice released her debut EP Like…?, which collected all the tracks that turned her into a viral sensation and added a few more. One of the new ones was “Princess Diana,”  » Read More

Magdalena Bay, the giddy experimental pop duo from Los Angeles, blew up on the strength of their 2021 album Mercurial World. On the strength of that LP, Magdalena Bay toured with acts like Charli XCX and Flume, and they play Coachella for the first time tomorrow. Last year,  » Read More

It’s been six years since New York hardcore greats Incendiary released their beast-ass album Thousand Mile Stare, and now they’re finally getting ready to follow it up. The new Incendiary LP Change The Way You Think About Pain is coming next month, and we’ve already posted opening track “  » Read More

It’s official: Turnstile can seriously just play any festival out there. They’ve played hardcore fests, punk fests, metal fests, general all-around music fests, and now they’re on the damn Rolling Loud Miami bill. Why not? Maybe they’ll play Stagecoach next.  » Read More

For a while now, Toronto fuzz-poppers PONY have been on a serious run. Since last year, Sam Bielanski and Matty Morand have been releasing a whole series of excellent one-off singles. Next month, those singles — “Did It Again,” “Peach,” “French Class,”  » Read More

For years now, the New York rapper billy woods has been on an absolutely historic run, both as a solo artist and as one half of Armand Hammer. In 2019, woods teamed with producer Kenny Segal on a truly great album called Hiding Places. Next month, they’ll follow that LP with a new one called Maps.  » Read More