Tom Breihan

Together, the duo of Daryl Hall and John Oates were one of the biggest hits machines of the early ’80s, and they remain a huge draw on the nostalgia circuit. But Hall and Oates have apparently been going through some kind of mysterious behind-the-scenes legal issue lately, and the dispute has evidently gotten bad enough that Hall now has a restraining order against Oates.  » Read More

The Hope Conspiracy started in 1999, and they were part of the same ridiculously fertile Boston hardcore scene as bands like Converge, Bane, Cave In, American Nightmare, and the Suicide File. Starting with 2000’s Cold Blue, the HopeCon released three albums of hard-rockin’, swagged-out mosh music. As far as I can tell,  » Read More

Staring! At the blank page before you! Open up the dirty window! Let the sun illuminate the words that you cannot find! Reaching! For something in the distance! So close you can almost taste it! Release your inhibitions! Feel the rain on your skin! Motherfucker, you already know what it is. I shouldn’t have to tell you.  » Read More

We love weeks like this. We complain about weeks like this, but we love them. The music business is a tireless beast, and it only really slows down for a few moments per year — times like SXSW week, or the last couple of weeks of the year. Thanksgiving is one of those moments.  » Read More

The Barcelona flagship of the massive, beloved Primavera Sound Festival has a vaunted reputation as the best-curated large festival on the planet. It can’t be easy to live up to that rep, but every year, Primavera unveils another poster that makes our collective eyes bug out. Today, it’s happening again.  » Read More

Presumably, you already know all about Sphere, the freaky-looking and hyperreal $2.3 billion live-entertainment venue that recently opened in Las Vegas. (Everyone calls it the Sphere, but no, it’s apparently just Sphere. Like Facebook, or Eagles.) Sphere is still a very new phenomenon. The venue was lit up for the first time in July,  » Read More

UK hardcore stompers Last Wishes have been around since 2018, and they released their album Organized Hate last year. Now, as they’re getting ready to play some European shows with Terror, Last Wishes have unleashed the guttural, head-wrecking new single “Up In Smoke.”  » Read More

Earlier this year, Will Oldham released Keeping Secrets Will Destroy You, his first proper Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy solo album since 2019. Oldham recorded that LP in a Louisville home studio, working exclusively with local musicians. Now, Oldham has released a new song called “Keeping Secrets Will Destroy You,”  » Read More

Last year, Spanish authorities charged Shakira with defrauding the government claiming that she owed 14.5 million euros in unpaid takes from 2012 to 2014. The government claimed that she spent half of her time living in Barcelona during those years but that she hadn’t paid any takes, and prosecutors sought an eight-year prison sentence and a fine of 24 million euros.  » Read More