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.
Girl Trouble are the Northwest's garage rock demigods, revered by all from Neko Case and Mudhoney to Soundgarden and Beat Happening. On As Is, their first album in over a decade, vibrato guitar collides rollin' and tumblin' into bedrock beats and black crow vocal calls; it's rock'n'roll done in a backwoods style.
I was too embarrassed to sing in my apartment, he says on a video call. But my roommate at the time was dating the preacher's daughter, and had keys to the church across the street. In the dead of night, the madcap bassist and singer took his recording equipment to the empty church, set up on the podium, and first sang his anti-war song Too Many Puppies.
The untitled music docuserieswill give fans an unprecedented, behind-the-scenes look into Universal Music Group's vaults, which form the world's largest music archives... With Armisen as their dynamic and knowledgeable host, viewers will explore pivotal moments in pop culture, and the stories of the iconic artists and songwriters who changed the course of history. UMG's archives include a massive, highly secure vault within the Iron Mountain facility in Boyers, Pennsylvania, located 220 feet underground in a former limestone mine.
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.
McCready's story captures the drive and sense of community that forged the powerful backbone of the Seattle music scene of the 1980s, as their world changed forever with the explosion of grunge in the '90s. Farewell to Seasons unflinchingly shows the brutal cost it had for so many artists and musicians as it captures the lived experience of that seminal era.
Foo Fighters are currently playing a series of warm-up dates in Ireland and the UK ahead of their upcoming summer 'Take Cover' stadium tour. During a recent Dublin show, Dave Grohl and co. debuted a new song, titled 'Of All People,' from their upcoming album, Your Favorite Toy.
The Megadeth version of "Ride the Lightning" appears as a bonus track on Megadeth's self-titled final album, which is out today, January 23rd. Get Megadeth Tickets Here When announcing the track's inclusion on the album, Mustaine stated in a press release, "As I come full circle on the career of a lifetime, the decision to include 'Ride the Lightning,' a song I co-wrote with James [Hetfield], Lars [Ulruch], and Cliff [Burton], was to pay my respects to where my career first started."
In a statement, frontman Ben Gibbard said the band is "thrilled to be joining the roster at Anti- which includes some of our favorite artists, old friends and in many cases, both." Atlantic signed Death Cab away from Barsuk in 2004 off the strength of the band's first four albums, including their 2003 mainstream breakout Transatlanticism. The group went on to release six albums with the label, starting with 2005's and ending with their most recent album, 2022's Asphalt Meadows.
The Head and The Heart have announced they will play their self-titled debut album in full on a 15th anniversary tour this May. Folk act The Brudi Brothers will open each show. The 2026 spring tour kicks off on May 1st in Nashville, Indiana, with subsequent stops in major cities including Chicago, New York, and Boston. Get The Head and The Heart Tickets Here
It's a true dream to put out a single on Sub Pop, and our new song 'Masks' hopefully honors the spirit of the mythical, sometimes mystical, city of Seattle. Thanks in part to the movie Hype, we have long been obsessed with Seattle, the American underground of the late '80s, and Sub Pop and their tools of world domination. Everything we learned about packaging Chat Pile, we learned from Sub Pop co-founders Jonathan Poneman and Bruce Pavitt.
Bass Magazine celebrated all things bass at their annual awards on Thursday night (1/23), which happened at The Observatory in Santa Ana. Les Claypool was one of the evening's honorees, and he performed with Primus, who had a few special guests on hand for the occasion. They brought out Green Day's Mike Dirnt and Tool's Justin Chancellor for "Too Many Puppies," Metallica's Robert Trujillo for "My Name is Mud," and Marcus Miller for "Tommy the Cat." Watch attendee-taken video below.
It's wild that we will be celebrating 15 years of our first record this spring - we are so lucky to have had the stars align meeting one another and creating art in those early days - we are looking forward to reflecting and celebrating the moments of coming together for the first time in real time with all of you! It's going to be a show unlike anything we've ever done. We are also so grateful and feel that the stars have aligned with having the Brudi Brothers out opening up each show in these intimate theater settings ! See you this spring!!!!