Rush really are switching up their setlists on their reunion tour. Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson, the two surviving members of the pioneering Canadian prog-rock trio, recently headed out on their first run of dates since drummer Neil Peart died in 2020. Sunday’s tour opener at LA’s Kia Forum included lots of live rarities, as well as appearances from Aimee …

This Graham Hunt guy does not slow down. One year ago today, we bestowed Album Of The Week honors upon the Wisconsin indie-rocker extraordinaire’s Timeless World Forever. He’s already announcing the follow-up, American Pyramid, set for release on Run For Cover at the end of this summer. The post Graham Hunt Announces New Album <em>American Pyramid</em>: Hear “Waiting For You …

Earlier this week you may have seen headlines about a fake Angine de Poitrine supposedly “touring Russia.” The claim traces back to a recent Exclaim! feature about the Québécois math rock sensations, who have garnered considerable attention for their adventurous music, outlandish papier-mâché masks, and excessively black-and-white polka-dotted visual identity. (Despite compelling evidence unearthed by online sleuthing, Khn and Klek …

Bad Bunny and Pope Leo XIV are two mega-famous Americans who draw huge crowds around the globe. Both of them also drive this country’s right wing public figures into fits of frustrated rage. On Monday, the two men came face to face. The post Pope Leo XIV Got To Meet Bad Bunny appeared first on Stereogum.

We heard from L’Rain a few weeks ago when she guested on a new Tasha track. Today Taja Cheek is ready to announce her own new album. Fata Morgana, the follow-up to 2023’s I Killed Your Dog, is coming out in August. Cheek created the album with longtime collaborators Ben Chapoteau-Katz and Andrew Lappin, and its excellent lead single is …

On the floor of the Baltimore Arena Monday night, a couple dozen kids with broccoli haircuts played duck duck goose. Why not? Those broccoli haircut kids had space, and they had time. They had so much time. Doors opened around 7 p.m., and A$AP Rocky, on his first proper tour in seven years, didn’t perform until nearly three hours later. …

The Queens-based musician Nick Hakim has a warm, personal sound that doesn’t fit neatly into any genre categories. He’s a soul singer, more or less, but there’s a psychedelic, lo-fi indie rock sensibility to his music. Hakim is also a prolific collaborator. Since the release of 2022’s Cometa, his last solo album, Hakim has contributed heavily to records from peers …

Yesterday, Jack White pulled a Jack White, quietly and semi-secretly announcing his upcoming solo album Frozen Charlotte. The announcement was part of the new new Release Lab video series from White’s Third Man label, which was billed as an educational peek behind the scenes. Now that the secret is out, White is doing the regular album-release thing, and that includes …

Sturgill Simpson kept his new Johnny Blue Skies album Mutiny After Midnight off streaming services at first, but, as promised, the album went live at DSPs this week with a bonus “Whiter Shade Of Pale” cover. That means a lot of people are hearing the new tunes for the first time and are therefore learning about Simpson’s sexual/political lyrical exploits, …

Earlier this spring, The New York Times published a huge package on the 30 greatest living American songwriters. Taylor Swift was in there, obviously. She sat for an interview, which basically turned her into the headliner for the entire thing. One person who was not on the list was Randy Newman, and that was certainly one of the more puzzling …