Think of the most on-brand thing that Weezer could do. Was your answer to surprise-drop a Beach-Boys-inspired album in the middle of a pandemic while everyone was still waiting a previously announced metal-inspired LP? If not, don’t feel bad. Even lifelong fans of the band couldn’t have seen this one…

It’s been two years since Wardruna dropped Skald, and half a decade since the last album featuring the full Nordic folk collective. Skald featured solo performances from project leader Einar Selvik, evoking the skald poets of pre-Christian Scandinavia. The album’s limited nature hasn’t hindered Wardruna’s journey, following up its…

Toronto alt-R&B musician Rhye‘s newest album, Home, takes the ambient trends of today’s most popular acts like Joji and blends them together with the stylings of ’70s funk and disco, a la young Michael Jackson. Songwriter Mike Milosh leans hard into the sound, with an array of funky bass lines and Roland…

According to a 1970 ad he placed in British music magazine Melody Maker, guitarist and songwriter Steve Hackett displayed an early interest in pushing “beyond existing stagnant music forms.” This attitude landed him a high-profile gig as the guitarist for progressive rock pioneers Genesis during a run of celebrated…

Introspection continues to be the name of the game on The Space Between, the newest album by Melbourne rapper Illy, which took him three years to make, not including a pandemic delay. The Space Between Illy Sony Music Australia, Jan. 15 7/10 Illy has described the theme of the…

In 2016 he was the American Music Awards’ New Artist of the Year and one of Glamour Magazine’s Top 100 Sexiest Men. The following he was Billboard’s top new artist. Any of these sounds familiar? If a teen-heartthrob-turned-solo-artist came to mind, you’re on the right track. No, no, not Harry Styles.…

Dale Crover is perhaps the most interesting man in grunge music. The Melvins’ drummer formed a band with Kurt Cobain in the 1980s called Fecal Matter and recorded some of the earliest Nirvana demos, including a couple songs on that band’s first album, Bleach. Crover has also played in Redd…

English rockers You Me At Six wanted to travel to uncharted musical territory on their seventh studio album, Suckapunch, so they did just that by.going to a place they’d never been. The band went to Thailand to record and the exotic setting allowed the members a new level of creative…

Why Don’t We, the five-member boy band from Los Angeles, went completely dark on social media in January 2019. Their fans, in a panic, started a Twitter campaign, with outcries of #WhereIsWDW echoing online. Upon their return, they proclaimed that the month had been spent devoted to the careful…

Viagra Boys play off a European stereotype that hardly exists in the U.S.: dirtbag leftist spongers on the social welfare system who live a bohemian life, making self-indulgent art, taking drugs and getting drunk in well-funded public parks. If that sounds utopian by our standards, well it kind of…