In the early ’90s, heavy music aficionados witnessed a transformative shift that, while criticized by some for sidelining traditional and hair metal bands, undeniably marked one of the last golden eras in recent rock history. The advent of grunge, spearheaded by Nirvana, Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, and Pearl Jam, shattered the sonic conventions of the […]
The best new hip-hop this week includes albums, videos, and songs from 21 Savage, Doja Cat, Lil Nas X, and more. Here is is: The first Best New Hip-Hop column of 2024! It’s been a long time, I shouldn’t have left you… but, hey, how many new albums and singles were dropping during the holidays, […]
A new song by the Black Keys, “Beautiful People (Stay High),” is out now. It’s the first to be released from their upcoming album, Ohio Players. The track, which you can listen to below, was co-written by Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney of the Keys, plus Beck and Dan the Automator. In addition to Beck, Greg Kurstin and Noel Gallagher also contributed to […]
ACRES have announced their signing to Tooth & Nail Records in style, via the release of new single ‘A Different Shade Of Misery’. The track represents a new era for the post-hardcore Portsmouth band and was produced by Landon Tewers of The Plot in You. It also arrives with a brand-new video which you can […]
I Am Morbid – the band featuring former Morbid Angel drummer Pete “Commando” Sandoval and frontman David Vincent alongside guitarists Bill Hudson (NorthTale, Doro) and Richie Brown (Mindscar, ex-Trivium) – will play Morbid Angel‘s Altars Of Madness in full on the May 19 date of Milwaukee Metal Festival. The daily lineup is now as follows: […]
Eric Clapton is a highly influential and revered English guitarist, singer, and songwriter known for his immense contributions to rock and blues music. Born on March 30, 1945, in Surrey, England, Clapton gained prominence as a guitarist in the 1960s and has maintained an illustrious career that spans several decades. He first gained recognition as […]
The new year just started and some of your favorite artist are wasting no time putting their imprint on 2024. This week, a Grammy-winning Atlanta rapper makes his long-awaited return with an album to go with his upcoming film, hip-hop’s moon man drop his first album in two years, a Brooklyn drill rhymer drops the […]
Tool kicked off their winter tour with Elder in continued support of 2019’s Fear Inoculum with an 11-song show Wednesday night at Baltimore’s CFG Bank Arena. One fan in attendance at the band’s first 2024 show even managed to break the rules and record part of “Pneuma” before getting caught. The run comes to a close on […]
In the early ’90s, the music scene was ablaze with the sounds of Pearl Jam, and one man played a crucial role in their rise to stardom – drummer Dave Abbruzzese. Hailing from Texas, Abbruzzese made a significant journey to Seattle in the early ’90s to fill the vacant drum position left by Pearl Jam’s […]
Samaria’s music presents a layer of vulnerability that, though thick, allows listeners to see and feel all the pain, joy, and everything in between that exists in her life. For the pain, look no further than her 2022 EP Didn’t Start With You. Her struggles in love are showcased with raw emotion through the project’s […]