The emo trio Jejune started at Boston’s Berklee College Of Music in the late ’90s, and they relocated to San Diego and released two charged, twinkly records in the late ’90s before breaking up in 2000. I don’t hear their name mentioned too often these days, but they were definitely a big part of that early emo wave. Earlier this year, the Numero Group announced that they’d signed Jejune. Now, the band has announced a brief run of reunion shows, set for next February in Japan.
Neil Young’s annual Harvest Moon benefit concert went down yesterday in Lake Hughes, CA, with proceeds going towards the Bridge School and Painted Turtle Camp. Young (backed by the Chrome Hearts) headlined as usual, and Lana Del Rey went on right before him. She opened her set with a tribute to the man of the evening, doing a cover of “The Needle And The Damage Done,” from his 1972 classic Harvest.
Early voting for New York City’s mayoral election began today, and Democratic candidate Zohran Mamdani secured an important cosign last night. He attended PinkPantheress at her tour kickoff at Brooklyn’s Kings Theatre and made a cameo on the big screen.
In August, Eiko Ishibashi and Jim O’Rourke released their latest LP Pareidolia. Now, the pair has released four live albums.
Many artists have been pulling their music from Spotify: Massive Attack, Xiu Xiu, Deerhoof, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Hotline TNT, WU LYF, Young Widows, and many more. It was originally in protest of CEO Daniel Ek’s massive investment in military AI, but musicians are even angrier after the streaming service started running ICE recruitment ads. Now Saetia are removing their material from the platform.
Last night the Warren Zevon tribute concert Join Me In L.A. went down in Los Angeles at the United Theater. The evening featured Jackson Browne, Fountains Of Wayne, Marshall Crenshaw, and more covering the legendary singer-songwriter with the Wild Honey Orchestra.
In 2023, the Drivin N Cryin cover compilation Let’s Go Dancing: A Celebration Of Kevn Kinney began rolling out. It’s still happening, and now R.E.M.’s Mike Mills is sharing a rendition of “Telling Stories” from 1995’s Wrapped In Sky.
Sabrina Carpenter is on tour celebrating her new album Man’s Best Friend. At ACL Fest the pop star brought out Shania Twain and “arrested” Djo as part of the “Juno” bit, and on Thursday (Oct. 23) she gave a live debut to “House Tour” in Pittsburgh.
Two years ago Say Anything released the Sufjan Stevens-inspired “Carrie & Lowell & Cody (Pendent)” from …Is Committed, an album frontman Max Bemis promised would satirize emo bands “trying to be the next Animal Collective or Strokes.” Now the band has followed that release with a surprise three-song EP called Is Sleazy, featuring covers of Animal Collective and the Strokes (and Yeah Yeah Yeahs).