‘I’d rather be boring than mysterious’: Bar Italia on anonymity, originality and disliking Pulp | Pop and rock

Bar Italia.

Bar Italia are tired of being a mystery. The trio – who have spent their brief existence breathlessly feted as London’s most exciting new band, as well as its most enigmatic – are very much […]

DOKKEN Releases Music Video For ‘Over The Mountain’ Single From ‘Heaven Comes Down’ Album

DOKKEN Releases Music Video For 'Over The Mountain' Single From 'Heaven Comes Down' Album

Legendary American rockers DOKKEN will release their 13th studio album, “Heaven Comes Down”, on October 27 via Silver Lining Music. The follow-up to 2012’s “Broken Bones” was produced by Bill Palmer and Don Dokken and […]

CREED Officially Reunites, Announces First Live Performances In More Than A Decade

CREED Officially Reunites, Announces First Live Performances In More Than A Decade

CREED has announced its long-awaited return with “Summer Of ’99” — an immersive rock ‘n’ roll celebration at sea highlighted by the Grammy Award-winning band’s first public live performances in more than a decade. Presented […]

The Lemon Twigs: Everything Harmony review – rarely has stark despair sounded so lovely | Pop and rock

The artwork for Everything Harmony

Musical pastiche can be dangerous. When you go beyond having influences to embodying those influences, artists can easily slip into self-parody. You need spectacularly good songs to pull it off. The Lemon Twigs, a US […]

Depeche Mode’s Dave Gahan: ‘Bowie’s music transformed something for me and gave me the ability to believe’ – Music News

Depeche Mode’s Dave Gahan: 'Bowie's music transformed something for me and gave me the ability to believe' - Music News

Depeche Mode perform three songs for BBC Radio 2’s Piano Room, accompanied by the BBC Concert Orchestra at the BBC’s Maida Vale studios. Gary: Good morning to you. So good to chat to you again […]

Boygenius are happiest making sad music together

Phoebe Bridgers, Julien Baker and Lucy Dacus of group Boygenius

On a March afternoon in a mattress store in the “Uncut Gems” part of Manhattan, Boygenius — the potent assemblage of Julien Baker, Lucy Dacus and Phoebe Bridgers — is trying on Victorian gowns. Craig’s […]

Rihanna’s Super Bowl halftime show: a welcome return for pop’s relaxed queen | Rihanna

Philadelphia Eagles v Kansas City Chiefs, Super Bowl LVII, NFL, Half Time Show, University of Phoenix Stadium, Glendale Arizona, USA - 12 Feb 2023Mandatory Credit: Photo by Dave Shopland/REX/Shutterstock (13765256bm) Rihanna performing during the halftime show Philadelphia Eagles v Kansas City Chiefs, Super Bowl LVII, NFL, Half Time Show, University of Phoenix Stadium, Glendale Arizona, USA - 12 Feb 2023

Four years since her last live performance, seven since her last studio album, Rihanna wasted no time to make a statement during her return to the stage at the Super Bowl halftime show. There was […]

GEORGE LYNCH And JEFF PILSON Release Original Holiday Single ‘It’s A Wonderful Life’

GEORGE LYNCH And JEFF PILSON Release Original Holiday Single 'It's A Wonderful Life'

Their musical partnership extends all the way back to 1984 and the release of the now classic sophomore album from DOKKEN, “Tooth And Nail”. No wonder then that when guitarist George Lynch and bassist Jeff […]

‘George & Tammy’ is a cautionary love story with good songs

'George & Tammy' is a cautionary love story with good songs

I must admit that as much as I love the classic recordings of country music king and queen George Jones and Tammy Wynette — a whole damn lot — my first thought on learning that […]

Horsegirl and Pavement’s Bob Nastanovich on Rock Band Survival

Horsegirl and Pavement's Bob Nastanovich on Rock Band Survival

Horsegirl makes music for kids, according to guitarist Penelope Lowenstein. This declaration isn’t surprising, given the band, made up of Lowenstein, Nora Cheng, and Gigi Reece, formed at an after-school program in Chicago, where they […]

CHESTER BENNINGTON’s Pre-LINKIN PARK Band GREY DAZE: ‘Starting To Fly’ Music Video

CHESTER BENNINGTON's Pre-LINKIN PARK Band GREY DAZE: The Making Of 'The Phoenix' Album Part One (Video)

GREY DAZE, Chester Bennington‘s pre-LINKIN PARK band, will release a new album, “The Phoenix”, on June 17 via Loma Vista Recordings. It is the follow-up to 2020’s “Amends”, which featured newly recorded music with remastered […]

CHESTER BENNINGTON’s Pre-LINKIN PARK Band GREY DAZE: The Making Of ‘The Phoenix’ Album Part One (Video)

CHESTER BENNINGTON's Pre-LINKIN PARK Band GREY DAZE: The Making Of 'The Phoenix' Album Part One (Video)

GREY DAZE, Chester Bennington‘s pre-LINKIN PARK band, will release a new album, “The Phoenix”, on June 17 via Loma Vista Recordings. It is the follow-up to 2020’s “Amends”, which featured newly recorded music with remastered […]

A Spitfire, Skateboarding Rapper From Atlanta: This Is Mercury

A Spitfire, Skateboarding Rapper From Atlanta: This Is Mercury

By Arielle Lana LeJarde The experience of coming of age is often captured in art and popular culture. Tales of teen heartbreak, unpredictable change, and finding yourself attempt to mine our collective pangs of adolescence or […]