The Denver label Convulse Records is one of the most reliable institutions going in today’s hardcore punk underground, and everything that they release is worth checking out at the very least. Cast in point: You might be completely unfamiliar with the Iowa City band Bootcamp, who have nothing to do with the Boot Camp Clik. But Convulse is putting out …

At least from a film-nerd perspective, one of the year’s most anticipated movies is the upcoming Spike Lee joint Highest 2 Lowest, a loose remake of the Akira Kurosawa classic High & Low. In the Kurosawa picture, Toshirō Mifune played a businessman at a shoe company trying to help his chauffeur after the chauffeur’s son has accidentally been kidnapped. In …

Sabrina Carpenter headlined the final night of Lollapalooza on Sunday. She’s been covering a lot of ’80s pop hits for a while now, and lately she’s been able to bring some of the original artists on stage too; last month in London she got some of the members of Duran Duran to do “Hungry Like The Wolf” with her. Carpenter’s …

Chicago’s Lollapalooza and Montreal’s Osheaga usually take place on the same weekend. The cities are far enough apart that they’re outside each other’s lineup radius, so there tends to be a lot of overlap between the two lineups. This past weekend, the actor-musician Dominic Fike was wreaking havoc at both fests.

If you’re of a certain age and inclination, then perhaps you remember Green Jellÿ, the long-running novelty outfit. Bill Manspeaker founded the joke-punk band Green Jellö in 1981, and he has been their only consistent member over the years. Tool’s Maynard James Kennan and Danny Carey apparently did time as Green Jellö members before their other band took off. In …

Izzy Hagerup has a chill-inducing voice, which is why I am completely consumed every time I hear her release a song under her project Prewn. The Los Angeles-based musician’s 2023 debut album Through The Window solidified her as a singer-songwriter whose voice is equally as sharp as her words, like PJ Harvey or Adrianne Lenker. Today, she’s returned with a …

The Grateful Dead, one of the great institutions in American music, threw itself a 60th-anniversary party this weekend. Dead & Company, the band led surviving Dead members Bob Weir and Mickey Hart, played a series of three shows at Golden Gate Park, in their San Francisco hometown, while the late Dead leader Jerry Garcia got a street named after him. …

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.

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Most of what we’ve heard about drummer Zak Starkey’s firing, re-hiring, and re-firing from the Who has come from Starkey himself. The son of Ringo Starr initially chalked up the drama to miscommunication between him and frontman Roger Daltrey, who’s still aboard the Who’s farewell tour despite his age and health threatening to get in the way. Guitarist Pete Townshend briefly …