The Beaches had fun on their latest album, last year’s No Hard Feelings. Now, the quartet is having even more fun by covering A Flock Of Seagull’s 1982 hit “I Ran (So Far Away),” a true new wave banger and one of my favorite songs to put on a... more info

Last year, the Waterboys released Life, Death And Dennis Hopper , a concept album about the late Hollywood icon featuring Bruce Springsteen, Fiona Apple, Steve Earle, and more. The longstanding project of Mike Scott returned last month with a new b-... more info

Three days into January, Morrissey's 2026 started with the first slate of what promise to be many show cancellations this year, as has become the former Smiths singer's custom. But it seemed like things were actually picking up for Moz this time. Aft... more info

Last year, Paramore star Hayley Williams helped her grandfather Rusty release Grand Man, the previously unreleased LP that he recorded back in the ’70s. Hayley also recorded a cover of Rusty’s song “Friends Or Lovers,” and it came out on viny... more info

Posición Unida are a bunch of kids from Washington, DC in their teens and early twenties. They make fast, simple, committed old-school hardcore, singing in Spanish and English and bringing the mosh with no pretension whatsover. Posición Unida’s d... more info

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Ludacris will no longer be rocking the country. When the lineup for the country-focused Rock The Country tour was revealed this week, the veteran Atlanta rap hitmaker's name was included. Given that the list is topped by vocal Donald Trump allies Kid... more info

Have Heart and Fiddlehead howler Pat Flynn surprised the punk world by launching yet another new band, How Much Art, last summer. The band also features Flynn’s Have Heart/Fiddlehead bandmate Shawn Costa plus Maddi Nave (GEL), Darrin Thompson and J... more info

“When It’s Cold I’d Like To Die” dates all the way back to before Moby became a TRL-grade household name with Play. The ballad, from the producer’s 1995 album Everything Is Wrong, has experienced a renaissance over the past decade due to it... more info

John Darnielle is never not writing and recording new songs. Darnielle’s Mountain Goats have now released 23 official albums; their last one, Through This Fire Across From Peter Balkan, came out just a couple of months ago. Now, they’ve got anoth... more info