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Green Day have been touring through the summer with Smashing Pumpkins, Rancid, and the Linda Lindas on the Saviors Tour, celebrating 20 years of American Idiot and 30 years of Dookie. Tonight, the band performed in Detroit and abruptly ran off the stage during “Longview”  » Read More

Earlier this year, Ekko Astral became our Band To Watch and released the gnarly debut full-length Pink Balloons, one of the best albums of 2024. Since then, the punk crew has amicably parted ways bassist Guinevere Tully and guitarist Sam Elmore.  » Read More

It’s always interesting to see how certain artists contort their performance styles to fit a late-night TV format, especially when they have performance styles that have nothing to do with late-night TV. Consider Kaytranada. The Montreal producer is an undeniably big deal, but as far as I know, his live shows are basically DJ sets.  » Read More

Over the past few years, the young UK pop mutant PinkPantheress has become an important force in global pop music. Her distinct combination of cute, vaguely twee melody and dancefloor retro-futurism has been especially impactful in South Korea. The huge K-pop group NewJeans, in particular, seem like direct descendants of PinkPantheress. Now,  » Read More

Not only can Faye Webster make endearing, cheeky, twangy indie-pop: She can also work a yoyo. She’s flaunted her skills here and there before, but now, she’s spreading her love for the art — and it is an art — at the upcoming Faye Webster YoYo Invitational.  » Read More

The Body work fast. Earlier this year, the Portland heavy-music experimenters teamed up with Berlin-based singer/producer Dis Fig on the collaborative album Orchards Of A Futile Heaven. Now, the Body are about to release a new LP of their own. This fall, their record The Crying Out Of Things will land on us.  » Read More

Don’t hold your breath waiting for Johnny Marr to agree to a Smiths reunion, but you can pinpoint exactly when he’ll re-release Boomslang, his 2003 album shared under the name Johnny Marr + The Healers. The reissue is coming 16 days from now, and today, after sharing the previously unreleased bonus track “  » Read More

The dreamily dynamic Atlanta indie band Lunar Vacation are just over a week out from the release of new album Everything Matters, Everything’s Fire. We’ve been fans of early singles “Set The Stage,” “Sick,” and “Tom,” and I quite like today’s offering “Fantasy”  » Read More

In 2021, Boy Harsher released their latest album, the spectacular The Runner (Original Soundtrack). Now, Augustus Muller, who serves as one-half of that duo, is joining forces with Cooper B. Handy of LUCY for a new project called Safe Mind.  » Read More