The Welsh rock band the Alarm have released a new album today called WAR. The whole concept behind WAR is pretty wild: The band only began writing and recording it last month and launched pre-orders right when they started that process. In order to have a physical product available, they let their fans order a blank CD-ROM of the album that peop...

This morning, long-reigning trip-hop pioneers Massive Attack released a new three-song EP called Eutopia, which the group explicitly conceptualized as a political piece of work about the immediate necessity of global systemic change. The music here is intended to be a vehicle for certain messages, and it's impossible to strip the sounds away fro...

Some bands that have the means and luxury to take action are starting to experiment with ways to lessen the environmental impact of touring and live performances. Coldplay recently said that they were not touring in support of their new album, Everyday Life, in order to take a few years and figure out how an…

Early Massive Attack member and trip-hop pioneer opens upTricky performing in 2016.Tricky has released a trailer for his forthcoming autobiography, Hell Is Round The Corner. The trip-hop pioneer and early Massive Attack member will release his book – named after a song from his landmark record, ‘Maxinquaye’, which NME named the best album ...