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

The phrase "paulmccartney has been banned" is inherently funny and absurd, especially when it comes to his own subreddit. Sir Paul McCartney was never the world's most active Redditor, but the people running his Reddit account tried to post some phot... more info

Widemouth are a Chicago band who formed in 2023 after two of its founding members, vocalists/guitarists Mak Carnahan and Jamie Eder, began performing Paul Simon and Big Thief covers together in the basement of a Northwestern University dorm. Now with... more info