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"In a lot of these cases, people get inducted and they have to bring the band members back together, 'cause they haven't worked together in years. But we’ve been working together all along, and that’s a great feeling."

The steamy return of bathhouses is making waves, suggesting that everything old is new again, and perhaps a little sweaty too!

I see you, and it makes me so happy to see you. There is such a disconnect between what we say America is about and what it is right now. True freedom is the freedom to be who we are, and it hurts my heart so much that in some parts of this country, it is unsafe for trans people to do that right now.

The beating heart of Sugar was always the sound of Bob Mould's guitar: a colossal, metallic, thunderous thing, like a sonic boom you could whistle. It was incredible, being engulfed by that wall of sound.

For me, I knew I was a lesbian. I didn't know the term, but I knew when I was five or six, so, pretty early on, I was like, 'I have to hide who I am.'

Playwright Mikki Gillette—described once as 'the Joan of Arc of the trans community in Portland theatre' by actor and critic Bobby Burmea—sets the work in the lead-up to and immediate aftermath of the 1966 Compton's Cafeteria Riot. We're dropped into the lives of four trans people practically begging the world to care about their pain, but with very different ways of approaching a brighter future.

Dwarves have announced their 17th studio album, titled J ENKEM, set to arrive June 6th via Greedy Records. In support of the upcoming record, the veteran punk band will embark on US tours in the spring and fall.

Welp, we've officially made it: It's Valentine's Gay weekend. And whether you're alone on the couch or hiding from your partner, there's been more than enough LGBTQ+ news to distract from all matters of the heart. How about we take this to the next level? Subscribe to our newsletter for a refreshing cocktail (or mocktail) of LGBTQ+ entertainment and pop culture, served up with a side of eye-candy.

burdened by loneliness, depression, and the incessant needs of others, pours herself a stiff drink and steps up to the noose she's hung from the rafters of her airy farmhouse. Then the phone rings: her ungrateful brother, making demands. She tries again-another ring, another request, this time from a friend. She plays the piano, doesn't she? Will she join a group of fellow-amateurs for a charity gig? Twice thwarted, Beth sighs, says yes, and gets on with the business of living.

However, after seeing Spin's Instagram post reporting on the potential Hole reunion, Love commented, "No Hole reunion," but added that she and Auf der Maur would be "playing some shows, new songs." She also added a comment to her original IG post, writing, "Me and @xmadmx touring new songs."

We're at the point in our career where we've been to a lot of fancy parties in beautiful rooms with important people, and we know the particular sadness of realizing it doesn't make you feel better. We've learned the hard way that validation is hollow and we actually just want connection.

I wanted her voice because it's robustly an octave over mine. It's surprisingly, to me, more robust and embodied now than it was in '98, when they recorded Celebrity Skin, Hole's Grammy-nominated third album. Silver, tinkling, all the things I can't do. We're perfect together.

I didn't hear Deceptacon by Le Tigre when it was released in 1999, but I was at a friend's house while he was out, going through all his records, and played it by random. It shook me to the core and I think I played it 100 times in on repeat, dancing around, completely excited. I had never heard something so angry and feminine.

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

Madonna, Confessions Tour 2006 at Wembley Arena in London. It was the first concert I had ever went to on my own, as the tickets even back then were so expensive and none of my friends wanted to go. Before it started I went to a shoddy, back street pub nearby and had three pints of beer to build up some Dutch courage.

As a teenager, your biggest concerns may include embarrassment in front of peers, family structural stability, and romantic relationships. As an adult, your biggest concerns are likely similar. Another teenage fear might be someone finding your journal, reading your deepest joys and terrors of personhood. The second album from Portland's Nonbinary Girlfriend realizes that fear, listening like an evolutionary confessional of what it is to be a human in the 21st century.

Sarah McLachlan has announced a 2026 summer leg of her "Better Broken Tour," with Allison Russell serving as the special guest on all dates. The trek is in support of her September 2025 album of the same name. The summer run kicks off on July 1st in Franklin, Tennessee, traveling across the US with stops in major cities including Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Kansas City, and Los Angeles.

Toyah and Robert Fripp are back in the kitchen with a new episode of Sunday Lunch. This week they're taking on X-Ray Spex 's skronky punk classic "Oh Bondage! Up Yours!" and of course they are decked out in bondage gear, with Robert in gimp mode. This week's sign: "Fripp's Ma Sub." Watch that and live footage of X-Ray Spex's original below.

Paramore singer Hayley Williams has teamed up with songwriting partner Daniel James for a new project called Power Snatch. The duo have unveiled four tunes via a three-song EP and stand-alone single. Williams and James revealed the project during a takeover on Apple Music 1, but it turns out the outfit has secretly been teasing music for months. They posted a snippet of a song via Instagram back in July, and released the tune "DMs" through Bandcamp in December.

"It always happens at some point," Rob Pursey says in reference to "twee," a descriptor that has dogged he and partner Amelia Fletcher's bands for 40 years. It was a word often used as derogatory by music journalists, but like a lot of genres - shoegaze, trip-hop - it's become accepted and embraced by many who have listened to their band Heavenly in the nearly two decades between breaking up and reforming in 2023.