Listen alla y’all: Pop-punk giants PUP and Jeff Rosenstock are currently out on a big co-headlining tour with opener Ekko Astral, and it looks lit as fuck. Those gigs all end with a big “Double Band” encore, with PUP and Rosenstock’s Death Rosenstock band joining forces to play a few songs, including the recent PUP/Rosenstock collab “Get Dumber.” Then everyone, …

Avery Tucker used to be one half of the great indie rock duo Girlpool, and he’ll release his full-length solo debut Paw next month. It’s a stripped-down, emotive folk-rock record, and it sounds nothing like what Tucker made with Girlpool, and definitely not like what Harmony, the other former Girlpool member, is making these days. We’ve already posted Tucker’s singles …

The Scranton-born musician Adam Andrzejewski (formerly McIlwee) has taken some fascinating career turns over the years. He used to sing and play guitar in the great post-hardcore band Tigers Jaw, which is still going strong. He left that group in 2013, and he started making spooky emo-rap under the name Wicca Phase Springs Eternal. For a while, he was in …

The Seattle Seahawks were in Pittsburgh Sunday to take on the Steelers in the second week of NFL regular season action. The big football storyline in the game was probably Steelers wide receiver DK Metcalf facing off against his old Seattle teammates for the first time after being traded during the offseason, and although Metcalf did catch a touchdown from …

For a long time now, we’ve been hearing about Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, the new biopic where Jeremy Allen White plays Bruce Springsteen during the making of Nebraska. Springsteen himself is doing the film a huge favor, releasing the fabled electric version of Nebraska one week before the movie arrives in theaters. The first Deliver Me From Nowhere trailer …

This year the UK punk-rap duo Bob Vylan have proven to be among the most politically outspoken musical artists in the world, in ways that have led career repercussions. At England’s gargantuan Glastonbury festival in June, the pair led a “Death to the IDF!” chant in protest of Israel’s genocidal campaign in Palestine, leading to a condemnation from Glasto, the …

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.

On this day in 1996, the world lost one of its greatest cultural icons when Tupac Amaru Shakur passed away at the University Medical Center of Southern Nevada. After being… The post Today in Hip-Hop History: Tupac Shakur Dies After Being Gunned Down In Las Vegas 29 Years Ago appeared first on .

Stephen Luscombe, the English multi-instrumentalist best known as the founding keyboardist for 1980s synth-pop band Blancmange, has died. He was 70 years old. His bandmate Neil Arthur confirmed the news on social media today, simply writing: “Heartbroken. RIP Stephen. Love you forever.” A cause of death has not been revealed, but Luscombe opted to leave Blancmange in 2011 after he …

Today marks the 52nd birthday of one of Hip Hop’s most treasured lyricists, Nas. For decades, Nasir Jones has been regarded as one of the greatest emcees to ever touch… The post Happy 52nd Birthday To Queensbridge Rap King Nas! appeared first on .