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It’s been about five years since Brooklyn indie-pop greats the Pains Of Being Pure At Heart announced their breakup. By the end, frontman Kip Berman was the band’s only constant member, and he’s the only person in the press photos for their final album, 2017’s The Echo Of Pleasure.  » Read More

Netflix is planning a new reality competition show about assembling different pop groups. They’re calling it Building The Band, presumably because Making The Band was already taken. Today, the streaming service unveiled show’s host and its lineup of judges, all of whom are drawn from some of the biggest pop groups of the past few decades.  » Read More

The current Pantera reunion is not a real Pantera reunion. We know this. There was never any love lost between singer Phil Anselmo and the late brothers Dimebag Darrell and Vinnie Paul, and it’s not a coincidence that Anselmo didn’t get any version of Pantera together until those guys were no longer around to stop it.  » Read More

Back in 2021, Dave Grohl visited The Graham Norton Show and told a story about getting lost in rural Ireland after the untimely death of Kurt Cobain in 1994. “When Kurt died and it all ended, I didn’t know what to do with my life,” he said. “I couldn’t listen to music anymore because it hurt too much so I tried to escape and went to Ireland to soul search… […]

The Lil Yachty content-flood continues. After Yachty and James Blake released the collaborative album Bad Cameo in June, Yachty is back to cranking out a string of rap singles. He dropped “Let’s Get On Dey Ass” and the Ian collab “Hate Me,”  » Read More

Asian-American death metal powerhouse Ripped To Shreds, a tremendous Band To Watch selection in 2022, began rolling out new album Sanshi with the release of closing track “Perverting The Funeral Rites, Stripping For The Dead.” This week they followed it up with a fast,  » Read More

Bandmanrill, a Stereogum Artist To Watch in 2022, was fusing rap with Jersey club way before that became a commercial move for rappers to make, and he still does it with more berserk energy than just about anyone else. Last year, Bandmanrill released Jiggy In Jersey,  » Read More

Houston rapper That Mexican OT has been on a tear over the last couple of years. In 2024 alone, he released his standout Texas Technician mixtape, did guest spots on Maxo Kream’s “Talkin In Screw,” Denzel Curry’s “Black Flag Freestyle,”  » Read More

The Leon Tour has support from Hermanos Gutiérrez and Texas country singer Charley Crockett  » Read More