My Chemical Romance have only released one new song in the past decade, but that certainly hasn’t stopped them from taking over stadiums on their 20th anniversary tour for The Black Parade. Along with playing that album in full, they’ve been dedicating a portion of their set to non-Black Parade songs. Last night at Los Angeles’ Dodgers Stadium they debuted …

Patrick Stickles was onstage, every fiber of his being soaked through with sweat, wearing nothing but black underpants, while his band played “Freebird.” To the uninitiated, the premise would be absurd: a punk band wrapping up a five-night residency at the (now-dearly-departed) Brooklyn DIY institution Shea Stadium with a slew of classic rock covers. To anyone familiar with Titus Andronicus, …

On Saturday night, singer-songwriter Regina Spektor played at Portland’s Revolution Hall, and a few people in the audience interrupted her set by yelling, “Free Palestine!” Spektor, who is Jewish and who emigrated from the Soviet Union to the US as a kid, is a vocal supporter of Israel amidst its ongoing and horrific campaign of genocide and starvation in Gaza. …

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.

Back in March, just a few months following their last album Wearing Out The Refrain, the great power-pop band Bad Moves announced that they’d be breaking up amicably following a farewell tour. That tour wrapped up last night at the Black Cat in the band’s Washington, D.C. hometown, with openers Light Beams, Adult Mom, and Lee Bains. Bye bye, Bad Moves! …

Tom Lehrer, the influential musical satirist and educator, died on Saturday at his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His friend David Herder confirmed the news. Lehrer was 97.

James Gunn’s new Superman movie features an Iggy Pop song, but probably not any of the Iggy Pop songs you’d first guess. In the final scene, during a conversation between David Corenswet’s Clark Kent and Rachel Brosnahan’s Lois Lane, you hear “Punkrocker,” Iggy Pop’s 2006 collaboration with the Swedish band the Teddybears. As the story often goes with superhero movie …

Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter Tour has been an eventful one. The three-month jaunt promoting her album of the same name wrapped up in Las Vegas Saturday night, and she went out with a bang by bringing out Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams onstage to do a couple of their biggest Destiny’s Child hits together. It was the last time the three …

“Last Day Of The Miner’s Strike” is a Pulp deep cut the band included on their 2002 compilation album Hits. It’s been over 20 years since then — and about 40 since the events that inspired the song — but last Friday night at Tramlines Festival in their Sheffield hometown, Pulp played it live for the very first time.

Last month S.G. Goodman shared her new album Planting By The Signs, and this weekend she returned to Newport Folk Festival — having first performed there in 2023 — to play some of those new songs on the fest’s Harbor Stage. But the Kentucky-born singer-songwriter didn’t just play new songs! “Hope you like the ’90s,” she told the audience after doing …