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Pavement - Perfect Sound Forever Slint - untitled (albini rough mixes) Grateful Dead - Boston Music Hall, Boston, MA 6/11/76 Grateful Dead - On A Back Porch, Vol. 3 The Sisters Of Mercy - First And Last and Always "The Japanese Edition" Pink Floyd - Live From the Los Angeles Sports Arena, April 26th, 1975 Air - AIR Moon Safari - The Athens Concert Jeff Buckley - Live À L'Olympia

Last month, LaRussell announced his signing of a "project deal" with San Francisco label EMPIRE, one of the music industry's largest and most powerful independent labels and distributors. In 2023, he announced a deal with Live Nation for select concert dates. Both deals, LaRussell indicated, allowed him to make decisions on his own terms. The Roc Nation announcement comes after images of a late January meeting between LaRussell and Jay-Z were shared online.

Footballhead by Calla Flanagan Footballhead by Calla Flanagan If you like emo, grunge, and other rock subgenres of the '90s and early 2000s, you should be getting excited for Chicago band Footballheads upcoming sophomore album Weight of the Truth, which arrives March 20 via Tiny Engines (pre-order). Three singles are out from it now, including Used To Be (which we named one of the best punk & emo songs of November) and the newly-released Diversion, which you can listen to below.

Come celebrate dictatorships and bolster the regimeWhile abusing helpless immigrants, a bully's wet dreamYou've joined the traitor's ranks to play the hand of GodIn a scumbag grifters kidnapping squad Now they've poorly trained an army for our kids to fear todayThe gave 'em masks and weapons and sent them on their wayThey're knee-deep in proud boys, yeah, thе party never stopsToo scared to join thе military, too dumb to be a cop

Peter Manning Robinson unveils "Pure Heartbreak," a new release that continues his ongoing exploration of subtle emotion and refined piano work. Staying true to the qualities that have long defined his sound, the track is built around soft undertones while remaining powerful at its core. Robinson reflects the emotional weight of separation, capturing the moment when something once comforting ends abruptly, leaving behind a sense of loss and quiet desolation.

I read Geddy's book [ My Effin' Life, published in 2023], and he mentioned about all the drummers kind of offering themselves to them and how much it turned him and Alex off, Portnoy said. I did send my condolences to Geddy and Alex after Neil passed, but I never once tried to throw my hat in the ring for Neil's gig. I realize that's a sacred role that should only ever be filled if Geddy and Alex choose for it to be so. And sure enough, here we are with them choosing to finally do so, which has been really incredible.

The performance arrived as Momoa made a surprise appearance in Manchester over the weekend to promote his new vodka brand, Meili Vodka. Though Momoa was donned in a Manchester United jersey instead of Liam and Noel Gallagher's favored Manchester City, he and his band provided a scrappy-but-visceral rendition of one of Oasis' heaviest tracks - a relevant pick, given that Oasis' pre-show walkout music for their "Oasis Live '25" reunion tour was soundtracked by the song.

I'd always assumed I'd just live my life, complain a lot, and die,

"Butterfly is the spring thaw after Beast," they say. "Country fair rides, angels and pixies, talismans, an impulsive fling in a small town, coyotes, fawns - we wanted to contrast the wintry rock of Beast and take listeners on a sonic road trip of different perspectives and in-between places." They've shared a new single, "Worry Angel," where Fraser and Reid's voices intertwine around each other in sinuous harmonies.

Shortly after he climbed the Taipei 101 skyscraper in front of millions of viewers on Netflix, Alex Honnold revealed that he mostly listened to Tool on the way up. Turns out he also was making his way up the 1,667-foot building to the sounds of Linkin Park, Nothing More, The Used, and other heavy rock tunes.

"I came up with the concept of the girl with the smoking gun," Livermore told Riot Fest in a 2021 interview. "I can come up with ideas and relay them to an artist, but I can't draw at all. I went to Chris Appelgren, one of my main co-conspirators at Lookout!, and told him what I was envisioning. He drew it, but it wasn't quite right yet, so he drew it again, and everybody said, 'Yeah, that looks cool, but she looks too much like Chris's girlfriend,' which she did. The third time he drew it, that's the cover that became famous and is now on a whole lot of t-shirts."

So many artists, so many songs, so little time. Each week we review a handful of new albums (of all genres), round up even more new music that we'd call "indie," and talk about what metal is coming out. We post music news, track premieres, and more all day. We update a playlist weekly of some of our current favorite tracks. Here's a daily roundup with a bunch of interesting, newly released songs in one place.

Though she came to fame in the shadow of some of music's highest-profile artists, Sheila E. has long since made her mark as a groundbreaking creative force all her own.

The last swing music revival of the late 1990s heralded in by groups like the Brian Setzer Orchestra may have seemed like the end of the line for the big band-fueled dance craziness - just don't tell that to Rebecca Roudman.

Tim McGraw has announced the "Pawn Shop Guitar Tour," a 33-date outing across North America this summer. The tour includes a trio of stadium dates at Hersheypark Stadium in Hershey, PA; Fenway Park in Boston, MA; and Target Field in Minneapolis, MA, with very special guests The Chicks and Lady A. 49 Winchester and Timothy Wayne will also join McGraw for select dates over the course of the run.

American Football are definitely up to something. They changed their profile picture on all social media platforms to the red-hued photo that you can see above, they posted an online teaser, and fans noticed that the inside of the American Football house was lit up red recently too. Now, they announced a lengthy spring/summer tour, and the last sentence of their new press release reads, "As spring approaches in 2026, so does new growth...&"

RCA is reviving Jive Records as a standalone label, the company announced today (February 3). Former UnitedMasters executives Mike Weiss and David Melhado will serve as co-presidents of the revamped imprint. They'll run operations from Sony Music 's New York City headquarters.