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On New Year’s Eve, Anthrax’s Scott Ian celebrated his 60th birthday with a concert at the Galpin Speed Shop in Van Nuys with some very special guests. As Blabbermouth points out, in attendance and on the stage at various points for a jam were Ian’s Anthrax bandmates Charlie Benante and Frank Bello,  » Read More

Some band names are instructive, and the Dublin punk band Sprints live up to their moniker more often than not. At some point during most songs on Sprints’ debut album Letter To Self, the music breaks out into runaway-train mode: drums incessantly bashing, bass urgently rumbling, guitars ripping away at power chords so rapid-fire they seem like they might actually burst into flames.  » Read More

When Nicki Minaj released her 2012 single “Starships,” it was widely understood as a naked bid for mainstream pop acceptance. It’s a straight-up dance-pop track, recorded with Lady Gaga producer RedOne, and it’s got very little of the weirdo intensity of Nicki’s mixtape days, which were not too far behind her at the time.  » Read More

Flesh Tape hail from Fort Collins, the Colorado city I always mistakenly think is the home of the Air Force Academy (because Fort) but is actually the home of Colorado State. (The Air Force Academy is near Colorado Springs.) The university discourse feels relevant because Flesh Tape certainly have some of the ol’  » Read More

Last year, the Lemon Twigs shared Everything Harmony, an album that wore influences like the Beach Boys and the Beatles on its sleeve. Today, brothers Brian and Michael D’Addario are back with “My Golden Years,” a power-pop anthem vibrating with the same old-timey charm as those classic bands.  » Read More

Back in 2015, Westside Gunn and Conway The Machine, the Buffalo rap-fundamentalist brothers behind the insurgent Griselda Records movement, released Hall & Nash, a bracingly nasty collaborative album named after a classic ’90s tag team. (Scott Hall was still alive back then.) In the wake of that release, Gunn and Conway were building a serious underground following,  » Read More

In 2022, the ultra-talented Atlanta rapper JID finally released his long-awaited album The Forever Story. More recently, JID has popped up on tracks with people like Lil Yachty, Killer Mike, and Mick Jenkins. Meanwhile, his 2022 21 Savage/Baby Tate collab “  » Read More

The trial was put on hold due to the stabbing of YSL defendant Shannon Stillwell  » Read More

Our weekly playlist highlights songs that our writers, editors, and contributors are listening to on repeat  » Read More