On January 6, 2021, Ariel Pink and John Maus both attended Donald Trump’s big rally in Washington, DC — a spectacle that became a whole other thing. Within a few days, Ariel Pink was dropped by Mexican Summer, his label. Soon afterward, Pink was also accused of physical and sexual abuse, and he went on Tucker Carlson to compl...

A few weeks ago, Dave Grohl and Greg Kurstin recorded a live set at Largo in Los Angeles with a whole bunch of guests, including Beck, Tenacious D, Karen O, Pink, Judd Apatow, and Kurstin’s the Bird And The Bee bandmate Inara George. That show ended up being Grohl and Kurstin’s third annual edition of their famous Hanukkah Sessions, ...

Yo La Tengo have an annual tradition. Every year, the New Jersey indie lifers play eight back-to-back Hanukkah shows at New York’s Bowery Ballroom. (The shows used to happen at Maxwell’s in Hoboken before that club shut down.) For their Hanukkah shows, YLT bring out surprise guests and play unexpected covers, and the whole af...

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Myles Kennedy and Mark Tremonti are living proof that you don’t have to be an asshole to sell loads of records, pack arenas and be a rock star in 2022