Early this year, Sharon Van Etten did something unusual for her: She put out an album created in full collaboration with her backing band. Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory was great, infusing Van Etten’s songs with some stylish new wave elements and a rousing rock ‘n’ roll kick. The material has also facilitated some rousing live performances that …

The stylishly high-concept but pleasingly no-frills New England rockers Perennial had a bit of a breakthrough with last year’s Art History. After taking their contagiously energized live show all over the place and releasing last month’s Perennial ’65 EP, the band has now announced an expanded version of Art History with a whole bunch of extra songs.

It’s been a minute since we’ve heard from Beach House. Their last album was 2022’s double-LP Once Twice Melody, which they followed up with 2023’s Become EP, comprising extra songs from the album sessions. They’ve been playing quite a few shows since then, including a recent appearance at Kilby Block Party. But it ultimately seems like the dream-pop duo of …

Maximumrocknroll, the legendary Bay Area punk zine, started off as a Berkeley public radio show in 1977, and its late founder Tim Yohannan turned it into a newsprint zine in 1982. Early in the zine’s run, Yohannon set out an impossible task for the publication: It would review every independent punk record that came out. Even as MRR grew into …

Jezmi Tarik Fehmi and Sam Fenton, two members of the brilliantly zonked-out London rock band bar italia, have another band together called Double Virgo. They’ve got a new Double Virgo album called Shakedown coming out in July via YEAR0001, and they’re sharing two songs from it now. Those tracks, “bemused” and “due dilettante,” are not so different from bar italia, …

In the ’90s, Robbie Williams was an absolutely huge British pop star — maybe the single biggest. First with the boy band Take That and then as a famously messy solo artist, Williams willed himself to icon status. With all that said, Williams was never really considered part of the ’90s cultural zeitgeist known as “Britpop,” no matter how often …

In 2023, cosmic Americana guitar hero William Tyler teamed up with Kieran Hebden, the electronic music legend better known as Four Tet, on a 12″ single featuring two sprawling genre melds. Today they’re back with news of a whole dang album together.

Art-music master Brian Eno is the composer of what might be one of the most-heard pieces of music in history, even if much of the world doesn’t necessarily process it as a piece of music. Eno made the famous Windows ’95 chime — the seven-second sound that would play whenever you’d start up a PC. Earlier this year, Eno’s chime …

They will now be gutting a body of water on a larger scale than ever. They Are Gutting A Body Of Water, the massively influential new-gen shoegaze band from Philadelphia, have signed to ATO Records, meaning they’re now label-mates with the likes of My Morning Jacket, Drive-By Truckers, and Black Pumas.

Right now, Bruce Springsteen and his E Street Band are on their Land Of Hope And Dreams tour in the UK. An E Street Band tour is always news, but this one has gotten some extra attention and indeed promotion from the President of the United States. At the Manchester tour opener last week, Springsteen made a few speeches about …