Archive: 2025

It was the summer of 1985, and there was an energy bubbling over from the country’s capital. Washington, D.C. is not a stranger to producing iconic punk bands, be it Minor Threat or Bad Brains, but in the mid-eighties, there was a shift happening. The hardcore legends had begun to dwindle, and the Revolution Summer […]

David Byrne has always acted like an outsider, singing/writing about the mundane with an alien-landed-on-Earth, like fascination. On his newest album, Who Is the Sky? Byrne has a song titled “I’m an Outsider”. The smooth grooving jam could be about finding mystical connections deep in the mind or wondering what is inside an exclusive club […]

There’s a clever brilliance to the title and cover art of Brian Dunne’s latest record, Clams Casino. The scene is simple yet striking: Dunne sits alone at a table in an Italian restaurant, framed by walls of celebrity portraits, with a comically oversized bowl of spaghetti stacked high before him. He meets the camera with […]

In today’s digital world, creating accessible content is essential. One effective way to make videos more inclusive is by adding subtitles. However, creating accurate subtitles requires a reliable process, and this is where transcribed texts come in. By using tools that extract text from video , creators can easily generate subtitles and reach a wider audience, including […]

Slark Moan is the New York-based indie rock artist and alter ego of multi-instrumentalist Annie Taylor Sloan. Her music is a cocktail of angular indie-rock hooks, colorful chord progressions, and virtuosic jazz solos, bathing in a pool of guitar-forward psychedelia. Moan spent much of the last decade as a session guitarist in Nashville, Tennessee, collaborating […]

CATSINGTON started as a personal escape for Jeff Katz, a respected filmmaker and photographer, but quickly evolved into something bigger—both creatively and emotionally. In his Los Angeles apartment, Jeff built the project from scraps of old gear and a desire for control and creative expression after a frustrating film experience. Searching for the perfect voice […]

Radiohead have announced a run of 20 shows to take place in five cities across Europe. The band will play shows in Madrid, Bologna, London, Copenhagen and Berlin. In a message to fans today, Radiohead’s Philip Selway said: “Last year, we got together to rehearse, just for the hell of it. After a seven year […]

Today, acclaimed Nashville singer/songwriter Todd Snider announces that his new LP HIGH, LONESOME AND THEN SOME. will release on October 17 via Lightning Rod Records. Produced by Aaron Lee Tasjan, Robbie Crowell and Joe Bisirri, the record is a stripped-down, juke-joint album of nine tracks, each of them steeped in the blues. He also released the Chris Robinson (The Black Crowes) co-write “WHILE WE STILL […]

Refreshing folk trio Big Thief has gone from one of the genre’s most beloved members to a global, experimental force. What started as raw intimacy has blossomed into daring, folksy ventures that are warm and inviting. The band’s true range emerged on their monstrous 2022 LP, Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You, the […]

Rounding out our salute to the late great Don Van Vliet (aka Captain Beefheart) this week, for today’s Weirdo Wednesday finale, there was obviously no shortage of options that would fit the Beefheart bill. But this final interview on Letterman from 1983 is remarkable, given that he would soon retire altogether from making music to […]

The post-punk genre has been enjoying a revival recently, and the youthful band shame has been at the forefront of this exciting movement. With a natural knack for live performance and an undeniable discography that stamps them as a force of nature from the beginning, the London-based five-piece have become poster children for this new […]

From an early age, Henri Herbert was fascinated by the piano-pounding pioneers Jerry Lee Lewis, Fats Domino, and Pete Johnson. Born in France and raised in the UK, Herbert broke onto the music scene as a member of the explosive rock revival band, The Jim Jones Revue. After testing the waters with his own band, […]

Louisiana Blues guitarist Tab Benoit has been on tour around the United States in support of I Hear Thunder, his first new release in 13 years. He brought his trio to Saint Rocke, a small club in Hermosa Beach, California, on September 1, 2025, to play some of the new material and his older songs. An enthusiastic […]

Cooper Wolken is a songwriter and multi-instrumentalist based in Los Angeles. He writes tender, off-kilter songs that drift between memory, myth, and dream. His new record, Ovular Infinity, is less about answers and more about sitting with questions. The songs spiral in time, leaping from the hyper-personal to the cosmic and back again. Where his […]

Bill Fever is an independent solo artist from the UK, based in Kettering, Northamptonshire. Fever has independently released 3 EPs since 2021 and has been playing live with his band since 2024, with performances across the UK – The Worcester Music Festival, The Black Prince during IVW, KettFest, Northants Rocks, and many more. Fever’s debut […]

While visiting a Pasadena, CA art museum a few years ago, Grant Lee-Phillips found himself drawn to an ornate Indian painting. Its fine details were captivating, but it was the title—In the Hour of Cowdust—that lingered with him. “A common theme throughout the poetry and the paintings of India is this concept of ‘the hour […]

Following the release of his new album Live Laugh Love, and music videos for album tracks “Tourmaline” and “CRISCO,” Earl Sweatshirt announces the 3LWorldTour. Launching on October 31st at the historic Red Rocks Amphitheater, Earl will take his celebrated discography on across North America to cities such as Las Vegas, Houston, New York, New Orleans, Washington […]

Following the release of Sparks’ 28th studio album MAD!, the eternally creative brothers— Ron and Russell Mael—announce the first EP of their illustrious career, MADDER!, out October 3rd via Transgressive Records. In conjunction, they present the lead single, “Porcupine.” A companion EP to MAD!, MADDER! captures the album’s pioneering spirit, which landed them raves from publications including SPIN, who hailed it as “another triumph for the Maels,” and Forbes who praised […]