Death metal titans Obituary are returning with Dying Of Everything, their first new album in six years, next week. We talked to the band in our Black Market column back in November, and they’ve shared two singles from it so far, “The Wrong Time” and the title track. Today, they’re back with one more advanc...

Album review: intoxicating ruminations on love, death and sex courtesy of ex-Him frontman Ville Valo on VV’s Neon Noir album

On January 6, 2021, Ariel Pink and John Maus both attended Donald Trump’s big rally in Washington, DC — a spectacle that became a whole other thing. Within a few days, Ariel Pink was dropped by Mexican Summer, his label. Soon afterward, Pink was also accused of physical and sexual abuse, and he went on Tucker Carlson to compl...

A few weeks ago, Dave Grohl and Greg Kurstin recorded a live set at Largo in Los Angeles with a whole bunch of guests, including Beck, Tenacious D, Karen O, Pink, Judd Apatow, and Kurstin’s the Bird And The Bee bandmate Inara George. That show ended up being Grohl and Kurstin’s third annual edition of their famous Hanukkah Sessions, ...

Yo La Tengo have an annual tradition. Every year, the New Jersey indie lifers play eight back-to-back Hanukkah shows at New York’s Bowery Ballroom. (The shows used to happen at Maxwell’s in Hoboken before that club shut down.) For their Hanukkah shows, YLT bring out surprise guests and play unexpected covers, and the whole af...