#album-release

#album-release

Deeply influenced by both gospel and soul, by his teenage years he was a guitarist backing Z.Z. Hill and Joe Tex. Rawls went on to serve as long-time musical director for O.V. Wright, a role he maintained until Wright's death in 1980.

At some point in making this record I realized the album I wanted to make was one that reflected my identity as both Iranian and American. Pushing the most Iranian elements right up against the most American ones brought me a certain kind of joy. The first time I put microtonal saz melodies over Western guitar chords, I was thrown off by the way the two rubbed together. But the more I listened the more I became drawn to that rub.

We've both been fans of Nate's for a long time, and loved getting to rework one of our favorite This is Lorelei songs. His natural way with lyrics and melodies made it easy to translate the song to a different place for this project. It also happened to be the song that started Power Snatch.

We couldn't fucking wait. Personally, I loved it all. For me, the attitude was like, 'let's work hard and let's GO.' - Keanu Reeves on making the new album

The new album Everything Must Go arrives on April 24 via Bad Time Records and Community Records, and first single 'Free Dom' is out now. It finds Bad Operation doing what they do best, fusing 2 Tone's influence with fresh, urgent new ideas and coming out with something danceable, catchy, and powerful.

Panopticon and Catharsis are doing a short co-headlining East Coast tour together this fall! The tour kicks off in Boston on October 8 before hitting Brooklyn's Market Hotel on October 9 and then shows in Philly and Baltimore. Tickets go on sale Friday (3/6).

Fresh off her performance at Super Bowl XL at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara - where she delivered a winning pregame rendition of "America the Beautiful" - singer-songwriter Brandi Carlile returns to the Bay Area for a concert at Chase Center in San Francisco on March 6.

Terror remain a veteran hardcore band that is deeply involved with the current hardcore scene, and every band opening this tour is a band that's shaping the future of hardcore as we speak: LIHC ass-kickers Pain of Truth, Baltimore's charismatic End It, and LA youth crew revivalists Start Today.

Seefeel will return with their first full-length in 15 years, Sol.Hz, on May 1, via their longtime label Warp. The follow-up to their 2024 mini-albums Everything Squared and Squared Roots will arrive in the middle of a tour of mainland Europe that starts in April.

'Hymn From the Hills' is about living on the outside, by force or by choice, and what is lost and gained in the process. The track continues Poison Ruin's metallic fantasy-punk hybrid sound, featuring a driving twin-guitar attack reminiscent of traditional heavy metal in the vein of Thin Lizzy married to vocals straight out of the Philly punk gutters, offering a keen union of high and low.

I'm blessed to have T Bone in my life right now and working with me on these records. After we did the last record, which I love listening to, this one just sort of happened. I like to say sometimes I make the right moves, like you can go left or right at any point, and one of the right moves was hooking up with T Bone for Look Up, and now for this one, which I'm calling Long Long Road, because I've been on a long long road.

Prince Daddy & the Hyena have announced a new album, Hotwire Trip Switch, which reunites them with Counter Intuitive Records (after a stint on Pure Noise) and producer Joe Reinhart of Algernon Cadwallader (who produced the band's 2016 debut LP I Thought You Didn't Even Like Leaving). It comes out on April 17.

I belong to a current of poetry that is meant to be read in public. Houellebecq's statement reflects his philosophy on artistic expression, emphasizing the performative nature of his work across multiple mediums. His musical recordings and public performances demonstrate this commitment to bringing poetry and artistic vision directly to audiences through various channels beyond traditional literary publication.

It is Moby at the peak of his powers but there's one track that stands especially tall. It's Harbour and it features a sublime vocal from Sinéad O'Connor. The song, stately and seductive, is yet another reminder of the rare gifts of the late singer.

"The whole project is destined for this year," Shatner said in a press release issued by Cleopatra Records. "I hope you will join me in the exploration." Few details were revealed beyond that, though Shatner did discuss the project's origin: a one-off spoken-word intro piece for Nuclear Messiah, the metal supergroup helmed by ex-Megadeth axeman Chris Poland. The experience was apparently so inspiring, Shatner set out to create a full-blown metal album of his own.

I wrote this song after a quick trip down to the tiny California town where I grew up. No matter how much time passes, part of my heart will always live among those golden hills. On this particular visit, I found myself talking to a woman who I clearly must have known in a former chapter of life, but I couldn't place her. Time sure can move through like a wildfire. All that's left are muted memories, elusive as ghosts.

American Football's fourth studio album is imminent. The legendary emo band confirmed today, February 18, that LP 4 is due out May 1 on Polyvinyl. Although they haven't shared any new music from the album yet, you can check out the cover art and full tracklist below. LP4 follows 2019's and 2016's , the latter of which arrived after a 17-year hiatus.

Idols II features recently released new version of Yungblud's hit "Zombie" featuring The Smashing Pumpkins, as well six previously unreleased songs: "I Need You (To Make the World Seem Fine)," "The Postman," "Time," "War Part II," "Blueberry Hill," and "Suburban Requiem."

Paradessence draws its title from a portmanteau of "paradoxical" and "essence," coined by author Alex Shakar. Per Visible Cloaks, the word embodies the oppositional-but-coexisting concepts they're trying to explore with the new album. "Instead of creating pieces that function horizontally as environments, we wanted to conceptualize them as living material changing in space, continually in flux," Doran shared in a press statement.

It turns out The X-Files is easily adapted from your favorite '90s paranormal TV adventures into a super silly on-stage sketch show. Kickstand Comedy's fully improvised performance keeps all of your favorite tropes: the will-they-won't-they love story, the monster of the week format, and the runaway conspiracy theories. Starring comedians Tessa Waring and Mo Merrill as Scully and Mulder, expect high sexual tension, audience suggestions, and jump scares even the performers don't know are coming.

This album is five standing on the shoulders of legions. The healers, the alchemists, the rebels, the mothers and fathers who have fought and weaved and invented new ways of being, seeing, and balancing the frequencies of this planet towards trans-dimensional liberation and universal understanding. We assume our role in this music as messengers, continuing in the tradition's long march along the arc of the universe.

War on Women have officially announced their fifth album, Time Under Tension, out May 8th via Smartpunk Records, while also unleashing the single "Messages Unsent." The album news comes after the Baltimore band announced a March US tour with Oceanator. The jaunt kicks off on March 18th in Pittsburgh, and you can get tickets here. Get War on Women Tickets Here

Mariachi El Bronx, the mariachi alter ego of LA punk band The Bronx, are about to release Mariachi El Bronx IV, their first album in 12 years, this Friday (2/13) via ATO. They'll also be playing Kimmel tonight (2/12) and livestreaming their Tijuana album release show on Veeps on Saturday (2/14), and to help usher in the release of this new LP, Mariachi El Bronx vocalist Matt Caughthran has made us a list of five of his favorite albums of all time.

Bleachers have announced their fifth LP, everyone for ten minutes, due out May 22 via Dirty Hit. It's the follow-up to their 2024 self-titled album, and you can see the cover art and tracklist below. The first single is "you and forever," which is the kind of irresistible, anthemic pop that Bleachers do so well. Watch the accompanying video, directed by Alex Lockett and starring Margaret Qualley (who is married to Jack Antonoff), below.