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

A$AP Rocky’s long-awaited new album Don’t Be Dumb finally arrived this morning, but it’s not the only exciting new rap record out today. Houston underground rap great Maxo Kream released the very good album Personification in 2024, and he follo... more info

Synth-pop trio Chvrches covered Robert Palmer’s lustful classic “Addicted To Love” for the Hulu drama Tell Me Lies. Chvrches’ rendition, out today, is less jazz-rock and more melodramatic ballad pop. A serious piano greets us along with Laure... more info

The album Charli XCX made for the forthcoming Emerald Fennell-directed Wuthering Heights film adaptation is sounding pretty great so far. We’ve already heard the John Cale collab “House” and “Chains Of Love,” which we named as one of that w... more info