Charm School is the project of Bay Area singer-songwriter Andy Pastalaniec, whose second LP The Boy Who Ran The Paisley Hotel is out later this summer on Slumberland Records. The album’s lead single “Give Your Heart Away” is out now, and sounds exactly like what you might expect from a Slumberland release: jangly gu...

In 1994, Hole bassist Kristen Pfaff died of a heroin overdose, one more tragedy in a long line of them around that time. The band quickly found a new member: Melissa Auf Der Maur, who’d previously been in the Montreal band Tinker. Auf Der Maur was in Hole for five years, and she played and sang back up on their classic 1998 album Celeb...

Bonnaroo is currently under way in Manchester, Tennessee, and on Saturday night, Dashboard Confessional’s Chris Carrabba hosted an emo-themed version of the annual SuperJam. Along with some Dashboard classics like “Stolen” and “Screaming Infidelities,” Carrabba and company welcomed a whole bunch ...

Last year, the great Toronto experimental rock ‘n’ roll band Fucked Up released their album One Day. For that one, all the members of Fucked Up had 24 hours to write and record their parts, and the challenge seemed to unlock something in them. Since then, Fucked Up have remained busy, releasing a whole lot of music &#8212...

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