About a year ago, Jesse Malin suffered a spinal stroke that left him partially paralyzed. The New York rock musician known for his role in bands like D Generation and Heart Attack is being celebrated with a new tribute album announced today. Bleachers’ cover of Malin’s 2007 song “Prisoners Of Paradise” is ...

The Folk Implosion, the storied duo of Dinosaur Jr./Sebadoh indie legend Lou Barlow and his penpal John Davis, effectively broke up in 2000, though Barlow kept it going as a solo thing for a few years. Barlow and Davis got back together in the pandemic days of 2021. In 2022, the group released their comeback EP Feel It If You Feel It. Next month...

Indie rock legend Lou Barlow remains plenty busy with his bands Dinosaur Jr. and Sebadoh, but now the Folk Implosion, his other group, is getting ready to drop their first new album in decades. Barlow started the Folk Implosion with his penpal John Davis in 1993, and they scored an out-of-nowhere hit with 1995’s “Natural One,...

I can tell I’m getting older because the nostalgia tours are pandering exceptionally hard to me right now. I mean, look at this shit: Weezer will head out this fall to celebrate 30 years of their self-titled debut LP, aka the Blue Album. They’re playing the record in full, and they’re bringing along both the Flaming...

In January, King Tuff (Kyle Thomas) released his sixth studio album, Smalltown Stardust, and he’s currently touring his way through the US. He also recently teamed up with SiriusXM to record an acoustic cover of Dinosaur Jr.’s 1994 classic “Feel The Pain,” which he appears to have recorded remotely as a du...