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Chase Atlantic, Dance Gavin Dance and 8 other things you need to check out this week
Chase Atlantic, Dance Gavin Dance and 8 other things you need to check out this week
Check out The Latest — for all the essential new music, tickets and livestreams you need right now. Clap your hands, say Yeah Yeah Yeahs Fans of Yeah Yeah Yeahs, it’s the news you’ve long been waiting for. Ahead of the promise of new music this fall, the Karen O-led trio have announced plans to return to action with some high-profile live shows. Check all the de... Read More ...
20 concert films that capture the best of live music, from NIN to Paramore
20 concert films that capture the best of live music, from NIN to Paramore
The dawning of our new normal — a world of postponement, rescheduling and uncertainty — showed us just how sacred live shows can be. Whether they’re experienced in person or at home in front of a screen, the collective energy fostered between an artist and their audience is the driving essence of live music. While we may hav...
Record Store Day 2021 drops include iDKHOW, FFTL, K.Flay and more
Record Store Day 2021 drops include iDKHOW, FFTL, K.Flay and more
Record Store Day 2021 is quickly approaching, and the annual event has finally released its list of exclusive and limited vinyl. I DONT KNOW HOW BUT THEY FOUND ME, From First To Last, K.Flay, twenty one pilots and Linkin Park are among the lengthy list of RSD selections that includes more than 400 releases for the two-day event being held on June 12 and July 17...
18 alternative songs that were actually nominated for Oscars
18 alternative songs that were actually nominated for Oscars
There are three types when it comes to songs in feature films: The first is the song that you just know isn’t only going to be nominated for an Academy Award but in all likelihood will win it; the second is the song that’s snubbed by the Academy in a year jam-packed with standard Oscar fare (sometimes love songs from Disney movies); the third is the song that somehow isn’t even considered and migh
15 essential post-punk bands who represent the evolution of the genre
15 essential post-punk bands who represent the evolution of the genre
Post-punk had to happen. Punk rock opened all this space for people to make exactly the kind of art or culture that the disenfranchised had been imagining in their heads, and maybe had limited means or skills by which to make it. But what if you didn’t want to crank out recharged three-chord rock ’n’ roll with modern street poetry for lyrics? What if you want...
See experimental punks Pleasure Venom bring the fury in outdoor session
See experimental punks Pleasure Venom bring the fury in outdoor session
Pleasure Venom hail from Austin, Texas, with social and sonic attitude to burn. Fronted by vocalist Audrey Campbell, the quartet have created a fascinating amalgam of hard-rock riffing and jagged treble attacks. Those sharp edges are capable of puncturing anybody’s jaded sensibilities or preconceived notions of what constitutes “heavy.”  In th...
Karen O (Yeah Yeah Yeahs) and Ezra Koenig (Vampire Weekend) duet on new version of “The Moon Song”
Karen O (Yeah Yeah Yeahs) and Ezra Koenig (Vampire Weekend) duet on new version of “The Moon Song”
If you caught recent Spike Jonze film Her, you're likely familiar with "The Moon Song," the Karen O (Yeah Yeah Yeahs) and Jonze penned tracked performed as a touching duet between lead actor Joaquin Phoenix and his digital love interest, voiced by Scarlett Johansson. If you stuck around d ...