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Despite blink-182 getting busy with their upcoming Enema anniversary tour and eighth studio album, drummer Travis Barker shows no signs of slowing down with his cross-genre collabs. In a recent interview, Barker told Spin that he wrote a song with country-rap sensation Lil Nas X. Read more: YUNGBLUD gets passport stolen, cancels select U.S. tour dates […]

N.A.S.A. The Spirit Of Apollo [4.5/5] N.A.S.A. is the brainchild of Squeak E. Clean and DJ Zegon, two Los Angeles DJs with some serious connections. On their debut LP, The Spirit Of Apollo, the beatmakers collaborate with artists from all over the musical map-if there’s no one on here you like, you should seriously […]

Signal To Noise Kodiak [3/5] A quick rundown of Signal To Noise’s more notable tour partners-Planes Mistaken For Stars, the Blackout Pact, Love Me Destroyer-should give you an idea of what to expect from the four-year-old Colorado band’s debut album: serrated melodies, whiskey-soaked vocals and enough testosterone to make a eunuch sprout neck hair. Indeed, […]

Noise By Numbers Yeah, Whatever… [3.5/5] When you count members of Screeching Weasel, the Methadones, the Riverdales and the Bomb in your stable, you’re probably considered a punk-rock supergroup, at least inside Chicago city limits. But when you’re Noise By Numbers frontman Dan Vapid (aka Dan Schafer), chances are that if you don’t venture […]

People Noise Ordinary Ghosts [3.5/5] Vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Zeke Buck was a co-founder of disco-funk dance machine VHS Or Beta, but don’t expect his new project, People Noise, to inspire any sort of discotheque insanity. As the evocative music on Ordinary Ghosts demonstrates, the Louisville, Kentucky, band are the latest addition to a crop of artists […]

Boys Noize Oi Oi Oi [3.5/5] For decades now, enterprising musicians have been trying to find ways to make the synthesizer head-bangable. But perhaps not since the Prodigy were in their mid-’90s heyday has anyone made it rock like German producer Alex Ridha. His formula, under the nom de pop Boyz Noize, is brutally elegant […]

The (International) Noise Conspiracy The Cross Of My Calling [3.5/5] After 2005’s patently awful Armed Love, it looked like Swedish ideologues the (International) Noise Conspiracy were poised to play Nickelback covers to handfuls of faded Refused T-shirts attached to blank looks. Fortunately, The Cross Of My Calling is far more spirited, creating a universe somewhere […]