Bradford Cox went off the radar at the dawn of this decade, and some of us have been longing for his return to the spotlight ever since. Slowly but surely, it's been happening. Cox brought back his ...

Doechii's Swamp Sessions blitz continues. Right now, the newly minted rap star is building up the release of an as-yet-unannounced album by dropping striking self-directed videos for the ...

A couple of months ago, the hardnosed Buffalo rap veteran released his one-off single "Summer '26," the latest in an annual series. Today, Benny's back with a new single called "Elevate." Technically, ...

Last night, at Hollywood Bowl, Aerosmith's legacy was celebrated with the first of two events called "California Dream On: Aerosmith and Friends." Guns N' Roses, the Black Crowes, Eric Church, Heart, ...

When the 22-year-old producer Mike Varney founded Shrapnel Records in 1980, it became the first dedicated metal label in the United States, beating Jonny Z’s Megaforce and Brian Slagel’s Metal Blade ...

Queens Of The Stone Age are releasing their new album, the slightly infuriatingly titled Perfecth, on Friday. The last single from the record found newly minted silver fox Josh Homme wondering "Where ...

The rumors are true: Guided By Voices have announced their 45th album, Speculation And Gossip. It follows March's Crawlspace Of The Pantheon, and it arrives at the beginning of next year. The lead ...

We can’t keep up. We try, but we can’t. The permanently weary Detroit underground rap fixture Boldy James makes so much music, and it’s all worth hearing, but the neverending deluge can be hard to ...

Last week, Chvrches announced All The King's Men, the followup to 2021's Screen Violence. So far the Scottish synthpop band has shared "Roses" and debuted the unreleased "Conman" live, and today ...

Last year, MJ Lenderman saluted a fellow indie singer-songwriter with an absolutely sick cover of This Is Lorelei’s “Dancing In The Club.” Lenderman’s version came out on a deluxe edition of This Is ...

Ryan Gosling is making indie rock again. All the way back in 2009, Gosling got together with a guy named Zach Shields, and the two of them bonded over the shared experience of getting scared on Disney ...

The National have always been game for campaigning on behalf of the Democratic Party, especially in their native Ohio. Among other efforts, the band famously lent their Boxer opener "Fake Empire" to ...