Nelsonville Music Festival 2024 – Killer Mike + More: Review

Nelsonville Music Festival 2024 - Killer Mike + More: Review

There’s something distinct about the feeling of being at Nelsonville Music Festival. Compared to, say, the (fun) chaos of Bonnaroo or the fast-paced, influencer-infested nature of Lollapalooza, Nelsonville Music Festival 2024 was noticeably more easygoing, […]

Off!’s Keith Morris and co. go out with a bang, onstage and on film

The band Off' rehearses.

On a recent Sunday morning on the 134 Freeway, singer and punk rock icon Keith Morris was behind the wheel of his Honda, rolling toward a final rehearsal with his band Off! in a Pomona […]

Soft Play On Track For Highest Charting Album Yet With ‘HEAVY JELLY’

Soft Play Release Raw New Single ‘Everything And Nothing’

Soft Play are on course to secure their highest charting album yet, with ‘HEAVY JELLY’ currently sitting in the UK Top 3. Soft Play released their fourth studio album ‘HEAVY JELLY’ last Friday, July 19, and […]

STÖNER Feat. Former KYUSS Members BRANT BJORK And NICK OLIVERI: Live Album ‘Hittin’ The Bitchin’ Switch’ Due In October

STÖNER Feat. Former KYUSS Members BRANT BJORK And NICK OLIVERI: Live Album 'Hittin' The Bitchin' Switch' Due In October

STÖNER, the supergroup formed by desert rock godfathers and long-time compadres Brant Bjork (founding member of KYUSS, also former member of FU MANCHU),Nick Oliveri (MONDO GENERATOR, former member of KYUSS, QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE) […]

RYAN ADAMS Releases Cover Of CORROSION OF CONFORMITY’s ‘Clean My Wounds’; PEPPER KEENAN Reacts

RYAN ADAMS Releases Cover Of CORROSION OF CONFORMITY's 'Clean My Wounds'; PEPPER KEENAN Reacts

Singer-songwriter Ryan Adams performed a stripped-down cover version of CORROSION OF CONFORMITY‘s “Clean My Wounds” on June 21 at Meymandi Concert Hall in the band’s original hometown of Raleigh, North Carolina. You can now hear […]

A hacked Game Boy, compliment battles, video games and Mr Blobby: the rise of UK nerdcore | Games

Mega ran, for use with piece on Nerdcore music (c) mega ran

We’ve had live jazz bands playing Mario Kart, and a full orchestra rendition of Sonic. But there’s a whole subgenre of video game music artists who’d happily describe their sound as even more nerdy. “Nerdcore […]

Frank Lloyd Wleft – ‘The Actual Kids In Actual America’

Frank Lloyd Wleft - 'The Actual Kids in Actual America'

London’s Frank Lloyd Wleft journeys across the U.S.A with sprawling new single ‘The Actual Kids in Actual America’ Frank Lloyd Wleft image via Lucas Edwards July 3, 2024 Ahead of a special headline show at […]

Shifty Shellshock’s family breaks silence after Crazy Town singer’s death

Shifty Shellshock's family breaks silence after Crazy Town singer's death

Shifty Shellshock’s family has spoken out after the Crazy Town frontman died of an accidental drug overdose. They remembered the late singer — whose real name was Seth Binzer — in an emotional statement to The […]

L.A.’s underground celebrates the life of punk iconoclast John Albert

Book cover of "Running With the Devil" by John Albert

Once upon a time, the collected works of music journalists, film critics and other cultural correspondents appeared with regularity on the literary landscape. We relied on their observations to make sense not only of the […]

Redd Kross celebrates 45 years as L.A.’s weirdest power pop duo

Twin brothers standing in an archway

Last summer, Jeff and Steven McDonald, the brotherly duo who founded the pioneering, sound-shifting band Redd Kross, decided to check out their longtime pals Sparks at the Hollywood Bowl. The McDonalds, long inspired by the […]

X Announce Final Album, Unveil Lead Single “Big Black X”

X have announced their final studio album, Smoke & Fiction, arriving August 2nd via Fat Possum Records. The L.A. punk legends also released the video for lead single “Big Black X,” a reflection of the […]

Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl says ‘we actually play live’ on ‘errors tour’ as Taylor Swift fans call out rocker for ‘shade’

Foo Fighters member Dave Grohl dissed Taylor Swift onstage according to some fans

LEAD singer Dave Grohl has appeared to take a swipe at Taylor Swift’s The Eras Tour during the Foo Fighters’ show in London on Saturday. Dave seemed to accuse the pop star of not singing […]