Archive: 2026

Sci-fi films always showed a clean, smooth way of using tech. No messy wires, no delays, everything just worked. Screens lit up instantly, devices connected without effort and spaces looked simple yet advanced. That idea is no longer far away. Today’s sci-fi technology is slowly becoming part of daily life. People want setups that feel […]

The Hayley Williams Show” today has unveils its highly anticipated expansion across North and Latin America. The North American leg will feature support from Magdalena Bay and Rico Nasty, while singer-songwriter Annie DiRusso joins the lineup for Latin America and Puerto Rico. $1 from every ticket sold in North America will directly benefit REVERB & […]

The Avett Brothers & Mike Patton – Disappearing The Avett Brothers & Mike Patton make an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live to perform the track “Disappearing” from their collaborative 2025 album titled AVTT/PTTN. “Living in the Promiseland” – Chris Stapleton (LIVE on The Late Show) Taking the stage of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, […]

Sometimes, a sample jumps out of the wax it was printed on. A melody or drum break potent to the point of intoxicating the listener, so it isn’t simply a clear choice; it is almost as if these elements are begging to be repurposed. Other times, a song is so ethereal, so beautifully constructed, that […]

Following The Black Crowes over the course of their on-and-off, near-forty-year career has arguably been a combined exercise in frustration and futility, seasoned with some rare satisfaction.  The explosive success of the group’s 1990 debut album, Shake Your Money Maker, augured well for their long-term success, so that, while their main musical influences were (too?) […]

For the past ten years, Josiah Leming has been releasing music under the moniker Josiah and the Bonnevilles, steadily sloughing off the mortal coils of the pristinely produced pop/rock that marked his early work following his appearance on the seventh season of American Idol. What he has bequeathed to himself and his listeners is a […]

The Womack Sisters’ self-titled debut album is due out on Daptone Records on August 14th. The trio today has also shared the release of their debut single “Chauffeur” and accompanying music video, which can be seen/heard below. Preceding the album announcement was “You Went Away Too Long,” which arrived around the news that The Womack Sisters would join Thee Sacred Souls and LA […]

Jared Mattson of The Mattson 2 and Ruban Nielson of Unknown Mortal Orchestra announce FEAR, a new collaborative instrumental album released out June 5 via Jagjaguwar. “AMERICAN EAGLE,” the first single from the project, is out today. FEAR was recorded in June 2024, the year Mattson and Nielson first met in person, having previously crossed […]

Aaron Frazer, the Los Angeles-based singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and member of the acclaimed group Durand Jones & the Indications, has released the new single “It’s A Shame,” out today via Dead Oceans. “It’s A Shame” will also be released as a 7” with the 2024 Into The Blue’s “The Fool” as a b-side, out on June 12 via Colemine. “It’s A […]

Holy Pinto is the indie-pop project of songwriter Aymen Saleh. Starting in the UK with a raw, youthful punk sound, Holy Pinto gradually evolved into colorful, genre-defying indie-pop. After falling in love with the touring life – a mix of carefree independence and serendipitous moments – Saleh eventually moved stateside and made Milwaukee, Wisconsin, his […]

Post-punk, shoegaze-inspired indie rock, and the odd alt-country twang combine in Tired Cossack. Formed in 2020 in Winnipeg, Canada, he breaks musical conventions in a distinct yet natural way. His songs flow like meandering paths devoid of care. Themes of joy and melancholy intermingle in his collection of sounds, featuring intense, cold, industrial rhythms and […]

Surfing the Tube is a daily recap of recent must-see YouTube happenings, from music videos and live performances to interviews and everything in between. Listening to Miles Davis with His Former Bandmates | The Track Star Podcast The Track Star* Podcast gathers a few guests with close ties to Miles Davis (the legendary Ron Carter; […]

A good audio setup is not just about sound. It is also about how your space feels. Most people who enjoy music like a clean desk and a simple setup. When everything looks neat, it is easier to relax and just listen. A messy desk does the opposite. It pulls your attention away. You start […]

What begins as a groove in Club d’Elf’s world often becomes a doorway into someplace older, stranger and unshackled by time. The band has spent twenty seven years helping audiences lose track of time with its shape-shifting fusion of Moroccan trance, dub, electronica, jazz and improvised funk. Built around bassist and composer Mike Rivard, each […]

Sobriety, love, and the lack of both are just a few troublesome, deeply personal truths alt-country troubadour Adam Gaffney has been grappling with over the past few years. Like any great artist, though, Gaffney found answers and solace through his music. The results are the heartbreaking, painfully vulnerable Product of Another Sad Song, the latest […]

The Rhythm Devils Apocalypse Now sessions remain one of the weirdest and most compelling offshoots of the Grateful Dead universe. In 1979, director Francis Ford Coppola recruited Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann — together known as the “Rhythm Devils” — to craft percussion-driven soundscapes for the Vietnam epic Apocalypse Now. Instead of composing conventional songs, […]

There are very few pressures in life as intense as a debut album. Sure, art isn’t the end-all be-all of life, but when that life revolves around an artistic output, your first introduction into the recorded world could make or break any promise shown for an artist. This sentiment, though, has been explored in countless […]

Despite being labeled as such from the start of their career, Animal Collective have never been “pop,” at least in any conventional sense. The amorphous gathering of forward-thinking multi-hyphenates has done more to resist being boxed in than has, employing fantastical experimentation that results in a transportive, otherworldly cacophony of bliss and horror. Even as […]