Tom Breihan

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The Body, the restless and adventurous heavy-music duo, love to collaborate. In the past few years, they’ve released team-up projects with fellow travelers like Uniform, BIG|BRAVE, and OAA. Earlier this year, the Body released Earth Triumphant, a previously unheard project that they recorded with the Haxan Cloak producing,  » Read More

“This rap shit done saved my life and fucked it up at the same time.” That’s the kind of insight that a rapper, or even a fan, might reach after months of intensive therapy. It’s also the very first thing that Danny Brown says on his new album. If you’ve been listening to Danny Brown for the last decade-plus,  » Read More

Some of the best and brightest musicians from the hardcore underground have assembled like Voltron to form Sentinel, a band that makes an almighty, towering metal-punk stomp. Mindforce guitarist Mike Shaw seems to be the person who put the crew together, and Mutually Assured Destruction’s Ace Stallings provides the towering bellow. (I know Ace a little bit,  » Read More

When all is said and done, Rob Harvilla will make at least 120 episodes of his podcast 60 Songs That Explain The ’90s. As you might’ve guessed from the title, this was not the plan. Rob’s show is my favorite music podcast in the world, and its willingness to veer outside its own bounds is one of the great things about it.  » Read More

British duo Sleaford Mods have cultivated a reputation as a fearlessly political group, but they disappointed a lot of people when they seemed appalled at the idea of taking a stand on the issue of Israel’s weeks-long bombardment of Gaza. Earlier this month, Sleaford Mods cut a Madrid show short after someone threw a Palestinian scraf onstage.  » Read More

A few years ago, the Denver poet Mike Young started a band called Clementine Was Right, and it’s grown into a songwriting project with his fellow poet Gion Davis. Clementine Was Right released their debut EP The Stagecoach Demos in 2019, and they’ve followed it with two albums,  » Read More

Green Day have big plans for 2024: A new album called Saviors in January and a massive stadium tour with the Smashing Pumpkins and Rancid in the summer. The band has already dropped the new singles “The American Dream Is Killing Me”  » Read More

Back in 2018, the Santa Ana, California punk band Tozcos released their debut LP Sue​ñ​os Deceptivos. The band’s name is Spanish for “clumsy,” and their lyrics are all in Spanish. They sound like some real turn-of-the-’80s California punk, like one of the artier bands from The Decline Of Western Civilization.  » Read More