Best of Riot Fest 2024 Photo Gallery + 3-Day Recap Video
So many great pictures, it’ll probably crash your tabsRiot Fest is over, and yeah, we’re bummed too. But don’t worry, the memories live on (and so do the porta-potty lines). There were crowdsurfing newlyweds, reunions, anniversaries, and of course, you beautiful maniacs. We’ll have a few more galleries, videos, and cool shit to share in the coming weeks, and we can’t wait until…
Interpol Announces New Album, Releases First Single
Interpol has announced a new album, Marauder. The band’s sixth LP—and first since 2014’s El Pintor—arrives August 24 via Matador Records. Marauder’s first single, “The Rover,” can be heard below. We’re not promising anything, but chances are Interpol will play this song (and several others) during its Riot Fest 2018 set. Interpol frontman Paul Banks says the…
Interpol Announces New Album, Release First Single
Interpol has announced a new album, Marauder. The band’s sixth LP—and first since 2014’s El Pintor—arrives August 24 via Matador Records. Marauder’s first single, “The Rover,” can be heard below. We’re not promising anything, but chances are Interpol will play this song (and several others) during its Riot Fest 2018 set. Interpol frontman Paul Banks says the…
Blink-182’s 2003 Untitled Album is Punk Rock Pop Art
There’s never been a clear name for Blink-182’s fifth album, and that’s strangely fitting. To the band and their fans, it’s untitled. To the rest of the world, that pop art inspired smiley face on the cover framed by the band’s name made the album self-titled. Released on November 18, 2003, the record marked a…
Mixed Bizness: A Playlist of Beck’s Musical Inspiration
Where does he get all those wonderful sounds? Everywhere.Crank this playlist, and read on. You just may learn something. In the beginning, people struggled to even describe what Beck’s music sounded like. Reading through early reviews of “Loser”—his 1994 breakthrough single and trademark anthem—it almost seems as though critics were taking a musical Rorschach test. Some heard the funky drum loop from…
Stream “Disconnected”, From The Upcoming Face to Face Acoustic Album
Face To Face announced a new album last week, and now there’s proof. Hold Fast, featuring 10 of the band’s classic jams stripped down, acoustic-style, arrives July 27 via Fat Wreck Chords. And thanks to Dying Scene’s reveal of the track this morning, we now know it’s not all some big hoax. So check out…
Stream “Disconnected” From The Upcoming Face to Face Acoustic Album
Face To Face announced a new album last week, and now there’s proof. Hold Fast, featuring 10 of the band’s classic jams stripped down, acoustic-style, arrives July 27 via Fat Wreck Chords. And thanks to Dying Scene’s reveal of the track this morning, we now know it’s not all some big hoax. So check out…
Watch Johnny Marr Perform A New Song From His Upcoming Album
Johnny Marr is ramping up a new album, Call the Comet. The Smiths guitarist’s third solo LP is scheduled for release on June 15 via New Voodoo. “I wouldn’t call it a concept record,” Marr explained to NME, “but it’s got a unifying theme going through it about the Earth welcoming a different intelligence from the cosmos…
Crank It or Spank It: The Many Moods of the San Diego Slasher, Hot Snakes’ Swami John Reisenigk
Autodiscography Picks the Brains Behind Drive Like Jehu, Rocket From the Crypt, and More“I’m always writing. I’m always playing. I’m always listening to music, thinking ‘What next?’”