Last year Thurston Moore was invited to perform at the New Music Dublin Festival. At the fest, Moore and his band of Alex Ward, Deb Googe, Jen Schande, and Jem Doulton performed gorgeous, noisy compositions based on some homemade sketches by Moore. Today, those original home recordings are released under the name Guitar Explorations Of… The post Thurston Moore Shares …

Later in the year, the country-focused touring festival Rock The Country will bring MAGA-affiliated headliners like Kid Rock and Jason Aldean all across America. The festival has a huge lineup that includes names like Jelly Roll, Brooks & Dunn, Riley Green, Hank Williams Jr., Lynyrd Skynyrd, Ella Langley, Nelly, and former spouses Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert. But since the …

Twisted Sister have cancelled their reunion tour. Why? Well, frontman Dee Snider has reached his limits. Snider has had to suddenly and unexpectedly resign from Twister Sister due to physical and mental strain. According to a statement shared via Twister Sister’s social media, Snider suffers from “degenerative arthritis, and has had several surgeries over the years just to keep going, …

Have you listened to Chat Pile’s Cool World lately? I have, and I can’t help but notice it feels more relevant than ever. I wish that wasn’t the case. But anyway. They followed that 2024 with the Hayden Pedigo collab LP In The Earth Again last year, and now the Oklahoma City noise-rock band is back… The post Chat Pile – …

Last year, John Dwyer was busy unleashing the latest OSEES album Abomination Revealed At Last, as well as launching the new band Chime Oblivion with Bow Wow Wow’s David Barbarossa. But now he’s announcing ZUZAX, his first Damaged Bug album since 2020’s Bug On Yonkers. “40 or so Damaged Bug tunes from the past seven… The post Damaged Bug Announces …

On this date in 2003, 50 Cent unleashed his landmark debut album Get Rich Or Die Tryin on Shady Records, Aftermath Entertainment and Interscope Records, delivering what would become one… The post Today in Hip-Hop History: 50 Cent Dropped His Debut ‘Get Rich Or Die Tryin’ LP 23 Years Ago appeared first on .

Tame Impala’s bush doof-influenced album Deadbeat wasn’t exactly a critical favorite, but Kevin Parker is beyond the point where that even matters. He’s got normal people on board. He doesn’t need us. The Deadbeat track “Dracula” broke containment, showed up on a million Halloween playlists, and became Tame Impala’s first-ever Hot 100 hit, reaching a… The post Jennie Joins Tame …

Hip-hop purists and boom-bap enthusiasts alike recognize Funky Technician as a landmark release in the genre’s golden era. Released on February 6, 1990, through Wild Pitch Records, this debut album… The post Today In Hip Hop History: Lord Finesse And DJ Mike Smooth Dropped Their Debut Album ‘Funky Technician’ 36 Years Ago appeared first on .

The Grammys this year were anti-ICE. One of the program’s most notable moments was during Billie Eilish’s acceptance speech for Song Of The Year, which she accepted alongside her brother and collaborator Finneas. “I don’t feel like I need to say anything but that no one is illegal on stolen land,” Eilish said. You might think that given colonialism and …

Millions of pages from the Esptein Files were released last week, revealing more about the horrifying sex trafficking network led by Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. In 2022, Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years in prison for conspiring with Epstein to sexually abuse minors. Several of these new documents included flirtatious email exchanges between Wasserman Group CEO Casey Wasserman and …