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A couple of years ago, the LA hardcore band Cosmic Joke got together with the stated intention of bringing back the classic fast, catchy early-’80s Southern California sound of bands like Bad Religion, the Adolescents, and the Descendents. There aren’t too many hardcore bands who sound like that anymore, and it’s refreshing to hear singer Mac Miller —  » Read More

Atlanta boogie-rock kings the Black Crowes seemed like classic rock anachronisms when they first came along in the early ’90s. These days, they’re old-school a couple of times over, and they’ve been through the classic-rock arc of breakup and reconciliation. In 2019, after years of bitter feuding, brothers Chris and Rich Robinson announced a reunion tour.  » Read More

In a few months, Orchid, the great chaotic Massachusetts hardcore band who helped invent screamo, will return, playing their first shows in 22 years. People have been waiting for an Orchid reunion for a long time, but that doesn’t mean those reunion shows are the only things that the band’s members have going on.  » Read More

J Mascis (of Dinosaur Jr.) is releasing a new solo album, What Do We Do Now, on February 2 via Sub Pop. Now he has shared its third single, “Right Behind You,” via an animated lyric video.  » Read More

Welcome to the first Songs of the Week of 2024. This week’s list includes songs from the last two weeks, as we didn’t do a Songs of the Week last week due to it being the first week of the year and there not being a lot of worthy songs to consider. But this week the music industry was in full swing,  » Read More

Last year, Austin-based indie outfit Pelvis Wrestley shared their debut record, Vortexas Vorever. That debut found frontperson Benjamin Violet conjuring a campy mix of glam aesthetics, baroque pop instrumentation, and Americana sensibilities, coating their melodies in both rhinestones and shimmering synth textures.  » Read More

Spiritualized reissue their fifth long player, Amazing Grace, this month to commemorate its 20th anniversary, so founder member Jason Pierce talked us through the making of the record and also hinted that a new album maybe on the horizon.  » Read More

The Black Keys (Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney) have announced a new album, Ohio Players, and shared its first single, “Beautiful People (Stay High),” via a music video.  » Read More

“Wanting and Waiting” leads the Georgia rock band’s Happiness Bastards  » Read More