L7 is Making a New Album
L7 just announced the recording of a new full-length album, the band’s first release this century. You can pre-order the album now via PledgeMusic. No album release date has been announced yet, but Donitra, Jennifer, Suzi, and Demetra are planning to record it between tour dates this year. “After having an amazingly great experience with…
Frank Turner Wants to “Make America Great Again” with This New Video
Like so many of us, Frank Turner loves America. The not-so-ignorant Englishman loves our country so much, that he can’t sit idly by after being pummeled with nonsense from the Trump-loving, gun-toting, truth-hating, red hat-wearing Peanut Gallery that surrounds us. Enter “Make America Great Again,” three and a half minutes of pure pop bliss; named…
Write Just Like Cobain, Lennon, and Bowie Using these Creepy Handwriting Fonts
If you’ve been dreaming of possessing the ability to write like Kurt Cobain, David Bowie, John Lennon, Serge Gainsbourg, or Leonard Cohen, you can wake up now. Your dreams have been answered… sort of. Using original handwritten letters and notes, designers Nicolas Damiens and Julien Sens have made downloadable fonts using the handwriting of these…
Stream The New Johnny Cash Album, “Forever Words: The Unknown Poems”
Believe it or not, Johnny Cash has a new album coming out. This posthumous release finds legendary artists such as Elvis Costello, Willie Nelson, and Jewel composing and performing music to the Man in Black’s poetry featured in the 2016 collection, ‘Forever Words: The Unknown Poems.’
The Riot Fest Week in Review
Week of April 2nd, 2018Check out new music from EELS, Johnny Marr, The Wonder Years, The Get Up Kids, Pennywise, Underoath, Red City Radio.
Monsters of Ink: Jeremy Wheeler’s More-Is-More Approach Packs Quite the Bang
The Michigander has created wild posters for John Carpenter, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, and many moreJeremy Wheeler has been a fixture in both the rock ‘n’ roll and pop art scenes in Southeast Michigan since moving to Ann Arbor around the turn of the century. He first came to local prominence as co-founder and coordinator of THE BANG!, a series of wild dance parties (for which, FULL DISCLOSURE, this writer worked…
Eels Released a Fantastic Music Video (and New Album) Today
Eels, the mouthpiece for singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Mark Oliver Everett—better known as E.—released a new studio LP today. The last time we could honestly say that was 2014, with the release of The Cautionary Tale of Mark Oliver Everett. Staying true to his sadly beautiful formula, E.’s lyrics on The Deconstruction‘s primarily deal with “rebuilding one’s…
Johnny Marr Announces New Album, ‘Call the Comet,’ and Releases New Song
Johnny Marr’s new album Call the Comet is scheduled for release on June 15, and now you can listen to the first single, “The Tracers,” below. Call the Comet will be the former Smiths guitarist’s third solo album. “I wouldn’t call it a concept record,” Marr explained to NME, “but it’s got a unifying theme going…
