Usually, Jordan Olds’ great video series Two Minutes to Late Night brings together ad-hoc supergroups from the metal, punk, and hardcore worlds to play covers of beloved old songs. Last week, for instance, it was a salute to Björk’s “Hyperballad,” and it featured people from bands like Cave-In, Deftones, ...

Just seven months ago, Bruce Springsteen released Letter To You, an album that he recorded in quarantine with his E Street Bandmates. It was good! It had some bangers! “Ghosts“? That song rips! Shortly before the LP’s release, Springsteen celebrated his 70th birthday, and he isn’t going to let that milesto...

Most of the world is still figuring out how to get back to live music post-pandemic, but concerts have been going on in New Zealand for a good while now. And at the Hollywood Avondale Theatre in Auckland tonight, as Coup De Main reports, Lorde — who has been working on new music — joined alt-country singer-songwriter Marlon W...

Waxahatchee’s Saint Cloud — one of the very best albums of 2020 — came out a year ago this past weekend. Katie Crutchfield celebrated the anniversary with a livestreamed show where she played through the album in full and today she’s releasing a deluxe edition of Saint Cloud with three covers attached. Tho...

Since releasing his new album Beginners last year, Christian Lee Hutson has been getting deep into the covers game. As part of a project he’s dubbed The Version Suicides, so far in the past few months he’s released covers of Sum 41, Blink-182, and Kid Cudi (which, despite coming out first, was dubbed Vol. 4 in the series) and...