The members of the San Francisco shoegaze trio Midrift were 16 and 17 years old when they blew up with the viral hits “Twin Flames” and “unrequited.” They were children! They’re a couple of years older now, which means they’re still crazy young, and they’ve become one of the bigger shoegaze-revival bands out there. They’re…

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Warning: new Warning album incoming. The influential UK doom metal band will return in June with Rituals Of Shame, their first release since 2006’s standard-bearing Watching From A Distance, a towering work that paved the way for latter greats like Pallbearer. Lead single “Stations” is out now. It plays like a hefty, funereal power ballad,…

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Jon Spencer is currently a man without a Blues Explosion, but that won’t stop him from rocking out as if he still had a Blues Explosion behind him. (The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion haven’t been active since 2016, so he’s been a man with no Blues Explosion for a decade.) Spencer released a solo album…

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Nottingham’s No Peeling play post-punk in the fun way, not the dour way. They released their self-titled debut EP last year, and in a few weeks they’ll be back with EP2. Lead single “Stationery” keeps up the band’s penchant for short bursts of neon cartoon energy. It sounds like it’s reflecting off a funhouse mirror…

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Experimental rock icons Bill Orcutt, Steve Shelley, and Ethan Miller joined forces last year for a power trio record as Orcutt Shelley Miller. Fresh off their appearance at Big Ears, the band is back today with two new covers, to be released together on a 7″ next month. Both songs are online now. Orcutt Shelley…

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The Devil Wears Prada 2 premieres in theaters on May 1. The sequel to the 2006 movie features an appearance from fashion icon Lady Gaga, though details about her role are still scarce for now. But where there’s a Gaga cameo, there’s often a Gaga song: Today’s new trailer for The Devil Wears Prada 2 includes a snippet of “Runway,” a new song Lady Gaga made with Doechii.

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Riffs! I like riffs. I like it when songs have lots of riffs. I like when one riff stops and another one suddenly starts. The Oxnard, California heavy hardcore band Torena has riffs for days. They’ve got so many riffs that their new single burns through a few of them before anyone starts singing. Torena…

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Recently Sky Ferreira has been posting some comments on Instagram implying that Charli XCX’s Wuthering Heights album may have included some old Ferreira demos. The only song on Wuthering Heights that credits Ferreira is “Eyes Of The World,” on which she’s cited as a featured artist and co-writer, but her comments suggested that other songs on the album were originally hers. Ferreira, responding to a fan, also explained how she makes an income despite rarely releasing music: “Your favorite artist records my old songs.”

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It’s been a few months since Sabrina Carpenter dropped her last full-length Man’s Best Friend, but it’s not too late for the house tour. Today she released the music video for album highlight “House Tour” in which she stars alongside Margaret Qualley, whose husband Jack Antonoff co-produced and co-wrote the song, and Outer Banks star Madelyn Cline. Carpenter and Qualley also co-directed the video together, which sees the trio — aka the “Pretty Girl Clean-Up Crew” — take a tour of a house that apparently belongs to none of them. Watch it below.

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It’s somehow been six years since the Strokes released their “new” album, the Grammy-winning The New Abnormal, and the band has been announced for a zillion festivals this year, including an appearance at Coachella this Saturday. So perhaps it was obvious a new LP was on the way. Today they’ve confirmed it.

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