Iceage has been seemingly dormant for quite a while now, but singer Elias Rønnenfelt has been quite busy over the past year. Last October he shared his debut solo album Heavy Glory, and in the months since he’s shared the single “Carry-On Bag” and appeared on projects with artists like Dean Blunt and Jonatan Leandoer96 (aka Yung Lean). I suppose …

For almost a decade, a group of women from various noteworthy Seattle indie rock bands have been playing together in a supergroup called Who Is She? Now, two of those members have started a spinoff band inspired by a romantasy book series. Prepare for many more proper nouns in 3, 2, 1…

Gloria Gaynor’s biggest hit, the 1978 disco staple “I Will Survive,” became a de facto gay anthem amid the AIDS crisis that followed shortly thereafter. It was a bit of a head-scratcher when Donald Trump — who appointed himself head of the Kennedy Center earlier this year — announced that Gaynor would be one of 2025’s Kennedy Center Honorees, an …

Last year Bon Jovi returned with Forever, their first album since 2020’s aptly titled 2020. The album featured “Waves,” a collaboration with alt-country superstar Jason Isbell. Soon, Isbell won’t be the only guest on the album.

Aterciopelados is coming to the U.S. On Aug. 26, the iconic Colombian rock band announced their Genes Rebeldes Tour in support of their latest album with the same name. The highly anticipated tour will kick off at The Belasco in Los Angeles, CA, on Dec. 4, and wrap up at the House of Blues in The post Aterciopelados Announces ‘Genes …

Under the name fanclubwallet, Hannah Judge excavates bright indie-pop gems. Her songs have a bright-eyed ease reminiscent of late ’90s/early ’00s pop songsmiths, like Sheryl Crow with a bit of Weezer. Today, she’s announced her sophomore album Living While Dying, which is out in October via Lauren Records. The announcement comes with a video for new single “New Distraction.”

All is not well in Wiggle world. The Wiggles, the long-running Australian children’s music band, are being sued by their former CEO Luke O’Neill, The Guardian reports. O’Neill (who is not the Hell World writer and one-time Stereogum Deftones reviewer Luke O’Neil — different spelling) is suing Wiggles Holdings Pty Ltd, as well as Anthony Field (the blue Wiggle, pictured …

When sharp pins come together with balloons, what do you get? Pop. Maybe that’s what Chicago scene mainstay Kai Slater had in mind when he titled his latest solo album under the Sharp Pins name Balloon Balloon Balloon. The album, the follow-up to last year’s heralded Radio DDR, is set to arrive in November on K Records, just months after …

Last month, Bright Eyes unexpectedly shared a ska song called “1st World Blues.” It turns out it’s taken from their just-announced EP Kids Table, and we’re getting another preview today with the new single “Dyslexic Palindrome,” which features Hurray For The Riff Raff’s Alynda Segarra.

The album is called Describe, so let’s do some description right away. For a few seconds, “Doing Now” sounds like something off of Frank Ocean’s Blonde, lo-fi guitar sounds loosely unspooling under Hannah Jadagu’s moonbeam melody. Then the drums kick in, and it’s almost like a Haim song, all that blurry melancholia filtered into a crisp, effervescent pop song.