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The Virginia hardcore band Majority Rule didn’t last for a terribly long time, but they were important. While they were around, Majority Rule, along with fellow Richmond bands like Pg. 99 and City Of Caterpillar, helped define the sound of the screamo underground. In 2003, a year before they broke up, Majority Rule brought in their friend Maha Shami to sing on their song “Packaged Poison.”  » Read More

It’s 2024, and everything’s coming up… Bon Jovi? The band is celebrating the 40th anniversary of their debut with an upcoming Hulu docuseries, but before that, Jon Bon Jovi will be honored as MusiCares’ Person Of The Year a week from today as part of the Grammys festivities. Today the Recording Academy has reveled the performers’  » Read More

When the Bogota hardcore punk dynamo Ataque Zerø released a self-titled EP in 2021, we were big fans. They’re back with another EP, Ciudades, which continues the band’s legacy of unhinged excellence. Ataque Zerø play fast, loud, and raw, but also catchy as hell, as if they’ve rushed here as quickly as they can from the ’80s with urgent news.  » Read More

Last year, California punks Militarie Gun released their tunefully muscular full-length debut Life Under The Gun, and it’s one of the best albums of 2023. (I had it at #1 on my personal list.) Earlier this week, Militarie Gun announced plans for Life Under The Sun,  » Read More

Skepta stirred up major controversy with the original artwork for his new single “Gas Me Up (Diligent).” The mood board for the British rapper’s upcoming album Knife And Fork supposedly draws from the football-centric skinhead culture of the 1980s, which led to artwork featuring the title tattooed onto the back of one bald head among many.  » Read More

In March 2014, Baltimore art-poppers gave a fantastic performance of their single “Seasons (Waiting On You)” on David Letterman’s Late Show. Frontman Samuel T. Herring’s expressive stage presence was already well-known in DIY circles, but this was the moment that the wider world really caught on. Letterman was delighted,  » Read More

“There’s so many conflicting thoughts going through your brain when you’re going through that situation,” explains Benny The Butcher. “There’s so much pressure.” The veteran rapper is commenting on a powerfully bleak bar from his long-awaited official debut album, Everybody Can’t Go, out today on Def Jam: “Stashing money in the bathroom ceiling,  » Read More

It feels like we’re getting a lot of news about music biopics today. These things keep coming out! Nobody’s willing to stop them! Dewey Cox’s brother died for nothing! Next up on the star-biopic schedule is Bob Marley. One Love, the new movie where Kingsley Ben-Adir plays Marley,  » Read More

LA-based indie singer/songwriter Eileen Allway debuted in 2021 with her EP Without the Thought of Knowing and returned last year with a new single, “Buddy,” introducing her yearning and wistful blends of indie, folk, and pop. That single was also the first taste of her forthcoming album, Love Water, out later this spring. Today, Allway is back with another new single,  » Read More