Last month, Bruce Springsteen’s stone-cold classic third studio album Born To Run turned 50 years old, and he shared the LP outtake “Lonely Night In The Park.” Springsteen celebrated the occasion last Saturday with a day-long symposium at Monmouth University in West Long Branch, New Jersey, which featured panels with the Boss himself and many of his cohorts: Steve Van …

New York singer-songwriter Hannah Pruzinsky makes delicate indie folk as h. pruz. Their debut album No Glory arrived last year, and today they’ve announced its follow-up Red sky at morning, which was co-produced with Felix Walworth of Told Slant/Florist. The record’s lead single “Arrival” is out now.

Last week, in one of those moments that reminds me direct access to celebrities through social media can still feel fun and special, Michael Stipe logged onto Bluesky and decided to clear up some rapid-fire lyrics from R.E.M.’s “It’s The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)” that have often been transcribed inaccurately online. This …

Chicago’s Dendrons make the kind of nervy, hypnotic post-punk where every element seems to snap into place. The band landed on our radar with their 2022 album 5-3-8, and they’ll follow it this fall with a new LP called Indiana. Dendrons co-produced it with past collaborator Tony Brant, and they honed and worked over the tracks for two years.

Last year, unlikely cult star Mitski went out on tour behind her stunning 2023 album The Land Is Inhospitable And So Are We. She performed at huge venues, and her show was a simple, strange, oddly moving spectacle that blurred lines between pop-stardom exhibition and performance art. I caught a show, and I loved it. Now, Mitski’s striking and singular …

Ozzy Osbourne basically got to headline his own all-star tribute concert a few weeks before he passed away. With that in mind, the world really didn’t need MTV to stage its own Ozzy tribute at the VMAs, but they did it anyway. They made sure it would be incredibly fucking stupid, too. On Sunday night, Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler and Joe …

A lot of extremely cool projects have come together because of the Roadburn Festival, an annual celebration of the more experimental ends of the the heavy music underground. That’s why Converge got together with Chelsea Wolfe, Ben Chisholm, and Stephen Brodsky to make Bloodmoon: I, and it’s how Thou and Emma Ruth Rundle got together to make May Our Chambers …

For the past week, Young Thug has been dealing with fallout from leaked phone calls recorded while he was incarcerated during his RICO trial. In one call, he seemed to claim that he bought chart placements for Gunna and himself. In another, he called GloRilla unattractive, which led to a public apology. More recently, he admitted to cheating on his …

Usually, when a singer gets COVID, that singer’s upcoming shows are canceled altogether. That’s not what Blues Traveler did over the weekend when John Popper got COVID. The band are currently on tour with fellow ’90s alt-rock mainstays Spin Doctors and Gin Blossoms, and so the singers of those bands filled in for Popper at their shows in New Braunfels, …

Rick Davies, singer and keyboardist for the hugely successful UK band Supertramp, has passed away. On their Facebook page, Supertramp revealed that Davies died on Saturday after a battle with multiple myeloma. Davies was 81. In their announcement, the band says, “Rick’s music and legacy continue to inspire many and bears testament to the fact that great songs never die, …