It has been a very busy run for Bruce Springsteen. Last year, he released the strong latter-day E Street album Letter To You, itself a quick followup to 2019’s solo outing Western Stars. Both of those arrived as plot twists at the same time that superfans have chased rumors about the long-awaited Born In The U.S.A. archival reissue, an...

Most weeks, the people behind the great video series Two Minutes To Late Night round up all-star one-off supergroups of people in metal, punk, and hardcore bands. Last week, though, Two Minutes To Late Night only featured one band. In support of a friend who’s going through a hard time, the comedian Jordan Olds recruited Thursday to co...

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...