Kid Rock has been busy campaigning against Live Nation, doing a cold plunge with a denim-clad RFK Jr., and presumably rehearsing for the MAGA-friendly Rock The Country tour, but he's maintaining some time for personal hijinks. For instance, Saturday ... more info

Drake is still holding grudges from 15 years ago. During Sunday's Juno Awards, Drake appeared remotely, sending in a video to induct Nelly Furtado into the Canadian Music Hall Of Fame. During that speech, Drake paused all of his praise for. Furtado t... more info

In 2023, the inaugural edition of Darker Waves, a festival dedicated to new wave nostalgia, came to Huntington Beach, California. New Order and Tears For Fears headlined a single-day bill full of '80s synthpop greats and their spiritual successors. O... more info

Dorian Electra, the electro-pop artist who featured on Charli XCX’s Pop 2 tape and has since lent official remixes to 100 gecs and Lady Gaga, has shared a couple of covers over the past couple of weeks. First came a rendition of Bob Dylan’s 1965 ... more info

Imagine that someone took the fiery climax of a 20-minute Godspeed You! Black Emperor epic, the moment that the drama builds into a crashing crescendo of thundering guitars, and just made a song out of that. Imagine that they screamed over the whole ... more info

Last year, Third Man Records reissued Ted Lucas’ 1975 cult classic self-titled album. It was the only record the late Detroit musician had put out, but it turns out he’d made another. It was called Impossible Love, and now it’s finally being re... more info

Veteran UK singer-songwriter Beth Orton has never been afraid to play around with genre or to stretch her sound out in all kinds of different directions. Over the years, she’s collaborated with people like the Chemical Brothers and Fuck Buttons’ ... more info

I didn’t see Dave Lombardo play at Big Ears. When I was figuring out a way to get myself to Knoxville for the city’s annual modern and experimental music festival, the former Slayer drummer’s appearances with a pair of different John Zorn proje... more info

Have you seen David Byrne on his current tour? I have. It's something to see. I'd never seen Byrne live before last year, though I'd crushed a whole lot of film of his performances over the decades. Byrne's current live show is a truly staggering ens... more info

In just a couple of weeks Justin Bieber will headline Coachella. Aside from a few private parties and one Grammys performance, that would've been Biebs' first proper show in a couple of years — that is, until he did a surprise warm-up show to a cro... more info