David Fair, co-founder of the influential long-running experimental rock band Half Japanese, has died. David co-founded Half Japanese with his brother Jad Fair in the mid-'70s. On Sunday morning, ...

One month ago, Jane Remover issued an ultimatum to M3F Fest: Drop the Israeli alt-rock trio Temper City or they would no longer perform at next year’s event. “yo get that idf band off the lineup or ...

It was a bad week for Bad Wolves. A couple of months ago, the LA metal band released "Paint It Red" and announced Sara "Killboy" Skinner as their new singer. Skinner replaced D.L. Laskiewicz, who left ...

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Magic is real, and we know this because science could never replicate the process that gave us Getting Killed. A bunch of talented Brooklyn teenagers emerge from the pandemic with a promising ...

A few weeks Clairo gave a vague yet inspiring update on her upcoming fourth studio album, the follow-up to 2024’s Charm and her first for new label home Atlantic Records. We know that the new album ...

In the almost 60 years since Bob Dylan released his debut album, countless words have been spilled on his singular legacy. There are books and movies and over half a century's worth of music ...

Two Shell! So confusing! Last week, the pranksterish London dance duo announced their upcoming album Infinite Now, which has some truly ugly-beautiful Y2K-ass cover art. They’d already released a ...

Have you ever really stopped and thought about how intricate and difficult the process of making a successful album must be? There is, of course, the basic issue of inspiration. Every artist must ...

Julian McCamman is getting a fresh start. Last summer, just a year after his band Blood released their debut studio album Loving You Backwards, the Philly-via-Austin rockers suddenly called it quits. ...

We made it! Mostly. Kind of. The COVID era, which utterly derailed music and most other things for the better part of two years, isn't quite over. But around the time that most of us got our second ...