Fuming Mouth frontman Mark Whelan really did cheat death. In 2021, Whelan was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia. He went through chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant, and he made it out the other side. Fuming Mouth returned to the stage in 2022, and the Massachusetts hardcore/death metal band released their album Last Day Of Sun in 2023. Next month, …

In 2024, London-based experimental singer-songwriter Martha Skye Murphy released her riveting debut album Um, which featured composer and guitarist Roy Montgomery on the beautiful single “Need.” Today, the pair is announcing a joint LP called Nebular. The enrapturing lead single “Cloudburst” it out now, and it’s a sprawling seven and a half minutes. The post Martha Skye Murphy & Roy Montgomery …

The Banana Man thing really broke containment, and it seems like it had a heavy effect on the lives of all the people involved. Earlier this month, the Baltimore hardcore band End It played in Toronto on the final night of their tour with Terror, Pain Of Truth, and Start Today. There was a guy at that show in a …

Art-rock overlord Peter Gabriel has had a seismic effect on a lot of genres of music over the decades. But up until now, Gabriel has mostly interacted with rap music in the most indirect ways, like the “Sledgehammer” sample on 3rd Bass’ “Pop Goes The Weasel.” So it’s fun to be able to say that the 76-year-old Gabriel sings the …

Línea Personal is going on tour this summer! On June 24, the música mexicana stars announced their upcoming debut headline TODO Ø NADA Tour. It will kick off at the Fremont Theatre in San Luis Obispo, CA, on Aug. 7, and wrap up at the 713 Music Hall in Houston, TX, on Oct. 18. “It’s The post Línea Personal Unveils …

One cool thing about the Strokes’ current tour promoting their upcoming album Reality Awaits: the opening act is Hamilton Leithauser, former frontman for their fellow New York rock revival heroes the Walkmen. Tuesday at Boston’s TD Garden, they welcomed Leithauser to the stage for a spin through a Walkmen classic. The post The Strokes Cover The Walkmen With Hamilton Leithauser …

“Respectfully, you’ve been quite naked this era.” So begins a recent Interview feature on LA singer-songwriter Malcolm Todd. Ironically, he is not naked in that interview, but he is on the cover of Do That Again, a shirtless bathtub-and-beer shot that’s lit like the Backrooms. Over the runtime of his album, multiple outfits’ worth of clothing is shed — a …

New Jersey native Nicole Atkins has a sound that’s rooted in classic pop music, but it never sounds like pastiche because she brings so much charisma and vitality to it. She knows how to write and deliver a hook, too. Atkins has been putting out records for more than 20 years now, and she has made records with people like …

Uh Huh Her, the duo of LA synth-rockers Camila Grey and Leisha Hailey, named themselves after PJ Harvey’s 2004 album, and they started releasing their own music just three years after that LP came out. Uh Huh Her have been on an extended hiatus for more than a decade, ever since the release of their 2014 album Future Souls. Maybe …

“We’re gonna try to open the pit at the Olivia Rodrigo show,” Kate Halter grins. A month earlier, this would’ve been an insane thing to say. For one thing, Olivia Rodrigo shows don’t have pits. Rodrigo plays arenas, and those arenas are full of seats — seats that are now going for four-figure prices on the secondary market. Nobody moshes …