At the beginning of this year, Jasmine Cruickshank, the trans singer-songwriter from Manchester who records under the name jasmine.4.t, released her debut album You Are The Morning. All three members of boygenius produced the LP together, and it came out on Phoebe Bridgers’ Saddest Factory label. This week, jasmine.4.t will release a deluxe edition of You Are The Morning with …

Alex Zarou Levine used to lead the very fun Brooklyn punk band known as the So So Glos, and now he makes solo music under the name Alex Orange Drink. Earlier this year, Alex released Victory Lap (#23), a new album inspired by his battle against cancer. That was just the beginning. While he was going through chemotherapy, Alex wrote …

Everyone’s got an airport story. A stop through an airport is a green light to act undignified: It might be the only place in the world where you can drink a cocktail with your breakfast and then nap on the floor afterwards with no repercussions. It’s both crowded and lonely, neither here nor there. You’re only at an airport because …

Jay Som recently produced new records from Whitmer Thomas, Hatchie, and her former backing band Fime, and she’s getting ready to release her own new album Belong. It’s got appearances from people like Paramore’s Hayley Williams and Jimmy Eat World’s Jim Adkins, and we’ve already heard the early tracks “Float” and “Cards On The Table.” Today, Jay Som shares “What …

Glean come from San Diego, and they make fuzzy, melodic, heart-on-sleeve hardcore. They released their demo in January 2020, right before everything came to a screeching halt, and I was really into it. Glean followed that demo with the 2021 EP Things We Must Embrace, and we haven’t heard from them since. I’d kind of forgotten about them, to be …

Last year, Foreigner were inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, thanks in part to a for-your-consideration campaign from Mark Ronson, stepson of Foreigner guitarist Mick Jones. Jones’ bandmates Lou Gramm and Dennis Elliott weren’t happy with the band’s treatment at the Hall Of Fame induction ceremony, but they’re in there now. They must feel like they can …

Boston alt-rock OG Juliana Hatfield has remained prolific for decades, releasing a flurry of both original material and covers. Next up for the erstwhile Blake Baby is a new album called Lightning Might Strike, set to drop in December. The title comes from a lyric in lead single “Scratchers,” which is all about the thrills and/or delusions associated with playing …

Hey look, it’s Drake. Our favorite guy. We can never miss Drake because he will never go away. Even when all the conventional wisdom says that Drake should vanish for a while and end the cycle of general exhaustion, he releases a ton of new music, and some of that music turns out to be hugely successful. It’s just the …

Long-running goth-punk overlords AFI recently signed with Run For Cover Records. That’s crazy, though it may not be as crazy as Davey Havok’s new mustache. Next month, AFI will release Silver Bleeds The Black Sun…, their 12th studio album. Lead single “Behind The Clock” is a real old-school goth churn that takes the band deep into Sisters Of Mercy territory. …

A police investigation is underway after human remains were found in a car registered to the 20-year-old genre-blurring singer d4vd, TMZ reports. Per the LAPD, a dead body was discovered Monday when officers responded to reports of a foul odor emanating from a 2023 Tesla in a Hollywood tow yard, which had been parked there for several days.