Ryan Nolen’s Chicago-based rock band Footballhead have been kicking out grungy ’90s alt-rock throwbacks for Tiny Engines for a couple years now. Today the band’s got a new one that provides a real sonic shellacking. “Face To Face” is one of Footballhead’s screamiest tracks to date, so proceed with caution or fall from grace. Your only option: Meet this song …

The Philly art-pop band Palm broke up in 2023. By the time Palm ended, bandmates Eve Alpert and Kasra Kurt were already making weird music with their side project Kassie Krut. Along the way, they became a trio, adding the former Mothers/Body Meat member Matt Anderegg. Last year, Kassie Krut released their self-titled EP, one of the year’s best. They …

Yesterday, police in Fulton County, Georgia have arrested the bluesy, rap-adjacent Florida singer Rod Wave on 14 charges, including aggravated assault involving the use of a firearm. According to TMZ, Rod Wave, along with realtors and other associates, visited his home outside Atlanta last month after it has been burglarized. Police claim that Rod Wave got into a dispute with …

For all his vaguely quirky medieval imagery, Zukenee’s music is grounded in the more recent past. Hailing from Atlanta, the rapper who calls himself a Slayer — an alias and aesthetic that probably triples as a lifestyle or even quadruples as a philosophy — would’ve been either an idea or a mischievous lil’ squirt when I heard Trap Muzik, Trap …

Early this year, Sharon Van Etten did something unusual for her: She put out an album created in full collaboration with her backing band. Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory was great, infusing Van Etten’s songs with some stylish new wave elements and a rousing rock ‘n’ roll kick. The material has also facilitated some rousing live performances that …

The stylishly high-concept but pleasingly no-frills New England rockers Perennial had a bit of a breakthrough with last year’s Art History. After taking their contagiously energized live show all over the place and releasing last month’s Perennial ’65 EP, the band has now announced an expanded version of Art History with a whole bunch of extra songs.

It’s been a minute since we’ve heard from Beach House. Their last album was 2022’s double-LP Once Twice Melody, which they followed up with 2023’s Become EP, comprising extra songs from the album sessions. They’ve been playing quite a few shows since then, including a recent appearance at Kilby Block Party. But it ultimately seems like the dream-pop duo of …

Maximumrocknroll, the legendary Bay Area punk zine, started off as a Berkeley public radio show in 1977, and its late founder Tim Yohannan turned it into a newsprint zine in 1982. Early in the zine’s run, Yohannon set out an impossible task for the publication: It would review every independent punk record that came out. Even as MRR grew into …

Jezmi Tarik Fehmi and Sam Fenton, two members of the brilliantly zonked-out London rock band bar italia, have another band together called Double Virgo. They’ve got a new Double Virgo album called Shakedown coming out in July via YEAR0001, and they’re sharing two songs from it now. Those tracks, “bemused” and “due dilettante,” are not so different from bar italia, …

In the ’90s, Robbie Williams was an absolutely huge British pop star — maybe the single biggest. First with the boy band Take That and then as a famously messy solo artist, Williams willed himself to icon status. With all that said, Williams was never really considered part of the ’90s cultural zeitgeist known as “Britpop,” no matter how often …