Earlier this month, Oklahoma noise-rock demons Chat Pile released a split 7″ with Kansas City’s Nerver called Brothers In Christ. Fast-forward to this week: the band are in the Netherlands playing Roadburn 2023 Festival, which takes place in the city of Tilburg. On April 21, they played the Hall Of Fame, and today they performed at a...

The London jazz crossover favorite Alabaster DePlume is back with his first single since last year’s expansive GOLD – Go Forward In The Courage of Your Love. The upbeat and tentatively triumphant “Salty Road Dogs Victory Anthem” is billed as an homage to “getting away with it,” with “...

The Netflix series Beef, about the increasingly wild and complicated fallout from a road-rage incident, is getting rave reviews. It’s also apparently full of radio-friendly alternative rock and TRL-era teen-pop needle drops.

Following a lawsuit filed by Mötley Crüe guitarist Mick Mars against the rest of the band, reps and lawyers on both sides have been flooding the press with accusations. For starters, in response to Mars’ allegation that the group’s recent performances have all been done with backing tracks, the band’s longtime man...

It was a battle for the ages: the Marxist-friendly RATM versus ultra-conservative billionaire host Steve Forbes: What could possibly go right?