A week ago, we got some startling news from the rap world: Memphis rap stars Pooh Shiesty and Big30 were among a group of men arrested on robbery and kidnapping charges for an incident at a Dallas recording studio involving Gucci Mane. Shiesty, who i... more info

Posters promoting a band called the Cockroaches have appeared around the north London neighborhood of Camden Town. The group is releasing a vinyl-only white label single called "Rough And Twisted" this Saturday, and they have a website where you can ... more info

Brooklyn-based guitarist Ava Mendoza is always getting up to something interesting. Last year we highlighted her work with Bill Orcutt Guitar Quartet and Mama Killa, a wild record she made with gabby fluke-mogul and Carolina Pérez. Today comes news ... more info

UK pop queen Lily Allen roared back into the headlines with the release of last year's messy, brilliant breakup album West End Girl , and she's on a big North American tour right now. She's doing great! But performing at Radio City Music Hall is har... more info

Willow Avalon snagged none other than Jason Isbell for her new duet. “Cardinal Sin,” from the Georgia-born country singer’s forthcoming Pink Pocket Pistol, is about a marriage falling apart due to infidelity. They sought a ’60s country feel f... more info

Faces Of Death looks like a fucked-up movie. The new horror flick is an adaptation of an old cult series of videos that were widely suspected to be actual snuff films in the '80s. It opens in theaters today, and it's director Daniel Goldhaber's foll... more info

I’m on record declaring Sunny Day Real Estate’s How It Feels To Be Something On as the best album of 1998. Does that statement stand up to scrutiny? Probably not, but it feels right whenever I’m listening. SDRE LP3 is a stone-cold classic, a re... more info

Sufjan Stevens is a man of mystery, and little bits of his lore seem to surface in the most unpredictable ways. In 2016, for instance, the Dallas musician Marc Rebillet posted about finding an unreleased 1998 album called Stalker in Stevens' dumpster... more info

“Of all people, you survived/ When no one else could stay alive/ You know you should be dead/ But you’re alive instead.” So begins “Of All People,” the new Foo Fighters single. The band debuted it in a taping of the Irish TV show Other Voic... more info

Blues-rock stars Alabama Shakes made a surprise return at the end of 2024, playing an unannounced reunion set at a Tuscaloosa benefit — their first time playing live in seven years. They’ve been touring hard since then. Last year, they shared “... more info