M.I.A.'s fourth studio album, Matangi has stirred up controversy with her label---for being "too positive," allegedly. As a result, it is being temporarily postponed; its initial April release has been pushed to the early fall, most likely. In the...
Thanks go out to the Suggestion Box at Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, for providing some of The Roots' most excellent and whimsical on the spot moments. This is especially true this week on the show, as members of the band have brought forth a pair...
Indie/pop trio Haim will headline the Fonda Theatre on Wednesday, October 16th. They've had quite a year, and this show will likely sell out quickly and be a big deal - so make sure you're there.
Tickets will go on sale this Friday, 6/21 at...
Following The Dillinger Escape Plan's release of One of Us Is the Killer last month comes an effectively bloody video bearing the same name as the new album.
Currently TDEP is gearing up to headline The Summer Slaughter Tour, which begins...
In a little over a year, Charli XCX has stormed the charts, first by collaborating on Icona Pop's smash single "I Love It", then in matching her own debut album, True Romance, with enthusiastic critical response this spring. In August, the UK...
Much To Take In
Tripwires have delivered the sonic equivalent of a maximalist novel in their debut LP, Spacehopper. At once heady and low-key, the eleven track album is the type of slow-burn record implicitly made for surreal, starry evenings as...
The 2013 Fun Fun Fun Fest's first round of lineup leaks hit Vimeo yesterday to the tune of Gesaffelstein's "Viol," revealing in 1980s video montage style five bands prepped to grace the stage: The Julie Ruin (Kathleen Hanna and Kathi Wilcox),...
We haven't heard new material from Franz Ferdinand since their 2009 release Tonight: Franz Ferdinand, but that's all about to change this August. The Scottish rockers are preparing to debut their latest LP, Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right...
In support of their May 2013 album Silence Yourself, English post-punk band Savages have announced their Fall 2013 US tour dates. The band's July 2013 tour dates in US and Canada are nearly sold out. Fans can also see Queens of the Stone Age at one...
The artist known as Jello Biafra (née Eric Boucher) has made an indelible imprint on modern rock and roll music. Known by most for his genre-defining, politicized punk rock in San Francisco band the Dead Kennedys, Biafra has been quieter recently...