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Hudson Valley marauders Mindforce are one of the best bands on the present-day hardcore lineup, and they continue to spin off tons of stomp-ass side projects: Sentinel, Pillars Of Ivory, Colossus, New World Man, Out For Justice, No Souls Saved, probably a bunch of others that I’m forgetting. Today, we get a new one,  » Read More

Last month, at a Grand Ole Opry tribute concert celebrating Dolly Parton’s 78th birthday, the big news was an embarrassing appearance by Elle King. During a performance of “Marry Me,” an obviously drunk King admitted she didn’t know the words to the song. She made up replacement lyrics, including “Don’t tell Dolly,”  » Read More

Mavis Staples has lived a long life. She was born weeks before the start of World War II, and she’s lasted long enough to headline a venue called the YouTube Theater. That’s where Staples, the cross-genre singing legend, will headline her own 85th birthday celebration this spring.  » Read More

Twin Peaks, the rambunctious Chicago garage rock Band To Watch that became one of the most consistently excellent rock bands of the 2010s, seems to be good and done now. But the members have been launching other projects for years, and one of them has big news today.  » Read More

When Can’s original vocalist Malcolm Mooney left the band, they discovered Damo Suzuki by complete happenstance. The Japanese-born traveler was busking his way through Europe, and Holger Czukay and Jaki Liebezeit witnessed one of his performances while in a cafe. Instantly captivated, they invited him to perform that night with Can. He was able to immediately lock into the band’s grooves with a similar feral intensity that Mooney brought to […]

Over the past decade or so, all of R.E.M.’s Warner Brothers era albums (which spanned from 1988’s Green to their swan song, 2011’s Collapse Into Now) have been reissued, typically in chronological order.  » Read More

How to Protect Bookstores and Why makes a case for why independent bookstores deserve support and why such support is absolutely necessary to a progressive culture that supports the arts, the people, and the communities in which they reside.  » Read More

“Texas Hold ’Em” and “16 Carriages” lead the second—very country—act of her Renaissance trilogy  » Read More

He performed a medley of hits including “Yeah!,” “Burn,” “Caught Up,” and more  » Read More