In 2016, veteran extreme-music warriors got together with some friends to tour Europe. Working with Chelsea Wolfe, her collaborator Ben Chisholm, and Cave-In/Mutoid Man leader Stephen Brodsky (a longtime Converge ally and former member), Converge formed a new entity that they called Converge Bloodmoon. They doubled down on the more meditative, i...

After having to cancel its 2020 and 2021 iterations, Boston Calling has unveiled the rest of its 2022 lineup, with headliners including Metallica, the Strokes (playing their first Boston show since 2006), and Foo Fighters. Noticeably absent are Rage Against The Machine, which the Allston fest had teased for 2022 last May.

Charly Bliss like to cover Josie And The Pussycats songs, which were sung in the 2001 film by Letters To Cleo’s Kay Hanley. For the past few days, Charly Bliss have been opening for Letters To Cleo on tour, which sounds like a really fun bill. And during Letters To Cleo’s encore at Paradise Rock Club in Boston last night, the...

Aesop Rock first rapped over a Blockhead beat 24 years ago. At least, that was the first time that Aesop Rock rapped over a Blockhead beat on record. The Long Island rapper and the Manhattan beatmaker had become friends a few years earlier at Boston University. By the time Aesop self-released his 1997 debut album Music For Earthworms, Blockhead ...

Nick Cave and his Bad Seeds/Grinderman bandmate Warren Ellis released their superb Carnage album in the waning days of this past winter, and next spring they’ll support it with a tour of North America. Cave and Ellis just announced 17 dates across the US and Canada running from March 1 to April 3. They’ll do four nights in Ne...