This week we published interviews with LL Cool J, the Blood Brothers, Blood Incantation, Alan Sparhawk, Raphael Saadiq, Balance And Composure, Geordie Greep, and Yasmin Williams. Read them, there will be a quiz.

Donald Glover put his Childish Gambino tour on hold a month ago due to an unspecified health crisis. Now he has gone ahead and cancelled those dates. As he explains in a message on Twitter, it’s going to take him a while to heal up from whatever ailment he suffered:

The Baseball Project brings together a veritable all-star team of indie rock veterans: R.E.M. members Peter Buck and Mike Mills, Minus 5/Young Fresh Fellows dude Scott McCaughey, the Dream Syndicate’s Steve Wynn, and Linda Pitmon, who plays in Steve Wynn & the Miracle 3 and Filthy Friends (Buck’s band with Corin Tucker of Sleater-Kinney). Their...

The former Year Of The Knife frontman Tyler Mullen now leads the frantic, concussive Philadelphia hardcore band Scarab, which also features members of groups like Simulakra, Seed Of Pain, and Envision. Scarab have reportedly been having crazy live shows for a couple of years, and they’ve released a great demo and an even better EP called Seeking Chaos...

The noisy, snotty LA post-punk band Tube Alloys impressed is with their 2023 album Magnetic Point, and they dropped another new song called “Evil Angels” last month. That was the A-side of the new Tube Alloys 7″. Today, the single is out, which means we get to hear the B-side. “Lizard Kingdom” is a catchy, straightforward midtempo basher with awesomely...

A little over a year ago, Victoria Monét, a singer-songwriter who had been best known as a behind-the-scenes force for artists like Ariana Grande, released Jaguar II. The album turned Monét into a star in her own right, spinning off hits and launching her to Best New Artist status among other Grammy love. Today she’s back with a deluxe edition of last...