Paramore and Allison Russell both won Grammys earlier this month, the pop punk band taking home Best Rock Album and Best Alternative Music Performance, and the Americana singer getting Best American Roots Performance. However, on Monday a Republican leader in the Tennessee House objected to a ceremonial resolution in Russell’s honor.

Today, two huge annual hardcore festivals announced their lineups, and both of them are topped by Have Heart, the Boston straight-edge cult heroes who are back and playing their first shows since their last reunion in 2019. LA’s Sound And Fury is the bigger of the two festivals; it’s probably the biggest North American hardco...

Sound And Fury, the biggest hardcore festival in North America, is coming back to Exposition Park in Los Angeles this summer, and it’s just unveiled most of its lineup. This time, the big news is that Have Heart are coming back! Have Heart, the righteously emotional Boston hardcore band, released two classic albums and then broke up in...

Up until pretty recently, it wasn’t entirely clear that Neil Young would ever tour again. Young initially wasn’t comfortable returning to live-show environments after COVID lockdown restrictions lifted, and in 2002, he told The New Yorker that he didn’t want to tour again unless he could do it in an environmentally ...

American Idol is still a TV show, even if it’s no longer any kind of pathway to a music career. (The last few winners have not released albums.) For the last seven seasons, the show has had a consistent judging panel: Katy Perry, Lionel Richie, and Luke Bryan. But that’s about to change. Last night, Katy Perry told the world ...