Elder have been making spaced-out, psychedelic doom metal for nearly 20 years, which means their name is now entirely accurate. The band started in Massachusetts, but they’re based in Berlin these days. Elder took what the band describes as a “sabbatical” when they finished touring behind 2022’s Innate Passage, their most recent album. When they got back together, they attempted …

Back in February, the esteemed record label Run For Cover and the venerable NYC concert promoter the Bowery Presents revived their long-dormant music festival Something In The Way — which had first taken place in 2016 at New York’s Webster Hall — moving it to Boston and situating it at the 3,500-capacity indoor venue Roadrunner. They’re running it back at …

“I don’t fit in anywhere!” That’s what Drew Waldon screams on the chorus “New From The Pain,” and it’s pretty much true. Waldon leads Gumm, a Chattanooga band that’s spent the past few years carrying the fire for a sincere, vaguely melodic form of hardcore that I generally associate with late-’80s Washington, DC. In the hardcore world, that style isn’t …

A Country Western are part of Philadelphia’s vital constellation of warped post-Alex G, post-TAGABOW indie bands. They released their surprisingly punchy and uptempo album Life On The Lawn last year, and today they’re back with a pair of short new tracks, packaged as an EP called Four-Team Dream Machine. Each one is essentially a solo track: Garrett Miades handles guitar, …

Chappell Roan has been covering Heart’s 1977 classic “Barracuda” for a while now, and she does a damn good job doing it. She just kicked off her run of fall pop-up shows over the weekend, and last night at New York’s Forest Hills Stadium, she brought out Heart’s own Nancy Wilson to sing and shred on “Barracuda” with her.

Last week, the Disney-owned network ABC suddenly suspended its late night talk show Jimmy Kimmel Live! under pressure from Donald Trump’s FCC. Kimmel made comments about the reaction to Charlie Kirk’s killing from the “MAGA gang,” and FCC head Brendan Carr immediately threatened retaliatory action, including pulling broadcast licenses. Disney head Bob Iger and television chief Dana Walden immediately caved, …

This fall, director Max Walker-Silverman is following up his 2022 debut feature film, the Sundance hit A Love Song, with another Sundance selection, Rebuilding. The film stars Emmy- and Golden-Globe-winner Josh O’Connor (young Prince Charles on The Crown) as a divorced cowboy in a FEMA camp in southern Colorado after losing his ranch in a wildfire, alongside Lily LaTorre, Meghann …

John Stamos finally played Riot Fest on Saturday, but that wasn’t the only noteworthy happening at the Chicago institution. Hanson and Blink-182 both covered Descendents with Stephen Egerton. And during IDLES’ set Sunday, their fellow big-font performer Jack White showed up to bring his signature guitar mastery to “Never Fight A Man With A Perm” from 2018’s Joy As An …

Hanson and Blink-182 are both trios who made big radio hits in the late ’90s. Beyond that, the two of them really don’t have that much in common — or they didn’t, until this past weekend. Both bands were on the bill at Riot Fest in Chicago, and both of them covered the exact same track from California punk legends …

In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. Book Bonus Beat: The Number Ones: Twenty Chart-Topping Hits That Reveal the History of Pop Music.