Usually, when big stars put out remixes of their hits, the strategy is to line up appearances from a bunch of up-and-coming artists. The big hit from Justin Bieber’s recent album Justice is “Peaches,” which went to #1 back in April and which is sadly not a Presidents Of The United States Of America cover. On that so...

DC Comics is teaming up with Loma Vista Recordings for a soundtrack to the first three volumes of its new series Dark Nights: Death Metal. (I don’t follow comics, but according to a press release, the story “depicts a hellish Earth twisted beyond recognition, wherein the Justice League is at the mercy of the Dark Multiverse a...

As acts like Nothing and Hundredth have already proved, hardcore musicians make good shoegaze bands. And now there’s another one on the scene, Shine, which features members of Regional Justice Center and Seattle’s New Gods. Shine list ’90s touchstones like Ride, My Bloody Valentine, and Primal Scream among their inf...

Nobody liked Justice League. DC’s slapdash 2017 attempt at a superhero team-up movie was doomed from the start. After two operatically grueling Zack Snyder dirges, DC wanted to lighten things up. Even when Snyder was first filming the movie, he assured the world, again and again, that this one would be less intense. Then, because of a ...

Right now, Justin Bieber has both the #1 single and the #1 album in America. That album, Justice, has been getting some flack because of the way it uses the voice of Martin Luther King, Jr. One song, “MLK Interlude,” has audio of a speech that King gave in Atlanta in 1967. Another song, the opening track “2 Much,&am...