1+ day, 14+ hour ago   (547+ words) The Beta Band are together again after more than 20 years, making this a particularly good time to revisit the gloriously strange story of how they got here. Frontman and founding member Steve Mason tells that story in ‘Failure Is Always…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (381+ words) Maebe’s third album ‘Brain Paint’ throws frenetic math-rock, post-rock swells, psychedelic guitar colour and serious melodic instinct into the same room, with “God Wit” serving as one of its most immediate explosions. Released in May, the 11-track record captures the…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (311+ words) Starset are opening a new chapter with “p a r a d 0 x 1 c,” a dark, synth-driven single that pushes the band’s cinematic rock sound further into electronic territory. The track arrives with a new video and blends pulsing synths,…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (219+ words) Art of Noise Was Born in the Spare Moments While cutting ‘Duck Rock,’ Trevor Horn, Anne Dudley, and J.J. Jeczalik used the downtime between takes to work on side recordings of their own. Those sessions eventually grew into “Into…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (740+ words) Yes have been making records for more than half a century, and ‘Aurora’ finds the progressive rock giants still fascinated by what can happen when an unfinished musical idea gets passed from musician to musician. Their 24th studio album grew from…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (294+ words) Written with Jeff Alulis, the 272-page book traces Finch’s life from an extraordinarily young introduction to LA’s hardcore scene through the years that followed. She was 12 when she entered that world, 14 when she began using heroin and 19 when she joined…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (413+ words) That Eric Alper Randall R. Burns, the American folk singer-songwriter whose acid folk recordings became a fixture of the late-1960s Greenwich Village scene, died on August 8, 2026, at the age of 78. Born and raised in New Haven, Connecticut, Burns began performing in…...