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On Thursday, Rage Against The Machine’s Tom Morello performed at the reopening of a newly unionized strip club in North Hollywood. The dancers at Star Garden Topless Dive Bar walked off the job nearly a year and a half ago, citing a workplace “full of belligerently drunk men who push our boundaries and often scare us,”  » Read More

These days, Julien Baker makes tender and beautiful music, both on her own and as a member of Turnstile. But Baker got her start in the DIY punk and hardcore scenes in Memphis, and I’ve seen her play live in a Terror shirt. In recent years, Baker has guested on records from heavier bands like Touché Amoré,  » Read More

Jay Watson, one of the two leaders of the Australian psych-rock band POND, also releases his own music under the name GUM — no relation. Next month, GUM will release the new album Saturnia, and we’ve already posted his tracks “Race To The Air” and “  » Read More

The members of the Seattle band TV Star have played ferocious punk in groups like Regional Justice Center and Militarie Gun, but that’s not what they’re doing in their new group. Instead, TV Star’s sound is a driving, shimmering take on psychedelic rock. The band brings ’60s garage-rock shimmy and ’90s alt-rock hooks,  » Read More

Back in February, Pile released their All Fiction LP. Now, the band are prepping to head out on a North American tour, which kicks off in September and wraps up in late October. Ahead of the tour, Pile have shared a new single and video called “Scaling Walls.”  » Read More

Next month, beloved fuckup romantics the Replacements will release a box-set reissue of their classic 1985 album Tim, and it’s getting a whole lot more attention than most reissues of this type. The newly remastered version of Tim was done by Ed Stasium, one of the producers that the band considered for the record.  » Read More

A couple years ago I wrote about the North Carolina rapper and singer Ashnikko, who is a lot. I found her to be generally abrasive in a not-great way and haven’t made a point to keep up with her since rendering my verdict, but today we have a reason to once again turn our attention Ashnikko’s way.  » Read More

There are very few true R&B stars these days, but if Victoria Monét is not quite A-list famous, she’s loved with the same intensity by those in the know. One listen through today’s Jaguar II, which is a sequel to her 2020 “project” Jaguar but is billed as her debut album,  » Read More

Chance the Rapper celebrated the tenth anniversary of “Acid Rap” with a homecoming show at Chicago’s United Center.  » Read More