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Last month’s Best Friends Forever festival brought some of the best underground rock bands of the ’90s — and the emerging acts carrying their spirit forward — to downtown Las Vegas. The lineup had a unique focus on second wave emo groups, some of whom hadn’t performed in many years. (You can read our recap of the weekend here.) With so many heroes of a very specific subgenre on-hand,  » Read […]

Luca Guadagnino has completed his next movie, Queer, which is adapted from William S. Burroughs’ novel of the same name. A24 released the film’s first trailer today, which features Sinéad O’Connor’s cover of Nirvana’s “All Apologies.”  » Read More

“Feelin’ kinda stupid, yeah my brain’s a little fried/ Staring at my phone is just a useless waste of time/ It’s so obvious now, I just want to feel alive/ I’m that kind of guy.” So begins “That Guy,” the new single from Seattle staples Chastity Belt, whose Live Laugh Love was an Album Of The Week for us this year.  » Read More

DIY veteran Owen Ashworth used to put out music under the name Casiotone For The Painfully Alone, and he’s been known as Advance Base for many years now. Under either name, Ashworth writes mordant, specific, often emotionally touching songs, reciting them in a reserved baritone over his own swirling synths. Nobody else really sounds like him.  » Read More

One of our favorite songs of 2024 so far has been “Image,” a standout from Magdalena Bay’s excellent album Imaginal Disk. A lot of people have noted that Imaginal Disk feels like a bit of a spiritual successor to Grimes’ 2015 opus Art Angels.  » Read More

It’s been a little over a year since Chvrches singer Lauren Mayberry released her debut solo song, “Are You Awake?” Since then, she’s unveiled “Shame,” “Change Shapes,” and “Something In The Air.” Today, she’s finally announcing her first album,  » Read More

A couple of months ago, Flying Lotus released the song “Garmonbozia,” and followed it with “Ingo Swann” a few weeks ago. Today, he’s dropping the surprise EP Spirit Box, which includes those two tracks.  » Read More

A North American run begins next March, with support from Litronix  » Read More

Surfbort, Draag, Guerilla Toss, Dazy, Mamalarky, and Omni are also among the bands playing Noise for Now benefit shows in various U.S. cities  » Read More