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The longstanding Toronto indie band Tokyo Police Club kicked off 2024 by announcing their impending disbandment, but they aren’t turning the lights out just yet. After revealing a final hometown show at the time of their breakup announcement, then expanding it to a sold-out four-night run, today they’ve unveiled a slate of da...

"If you want to throw them lights you have to throw them the other way, not at the stage. Who understands what I’m saying?"The post Pharrell Williams quits Grand Prix gig 15 minutes early due to dangerous crowd actvitiy appeared first on NME.

The Oklahoma country-rock phenom Zach Bryan, one of the biggest music-business success stories of the past few years, will spend much of this year on his Quittin Time tour. At various dates on that tour, Bryan’s shows will include openers like Sheryl Crow and Jason Isbell. Some of those nights, he’s playing football stadiums....

Right now, tons of bands from the hardcore world are messing around with the pop-punk and emo sounds of the ’00s. Those bands might be approaching those sounds from a hardcore direction, but they’re steeped in the nasal, melodic, vulnerable styles of their youth. This past weekend, I watched Long Island’s Koyo headl...