For a moment there, it seemed like Everything Was Beautiful might never exist. In 2018, Jason Pierce returned with the eighth Spiritualized album, And Nothing Hurt. It was his first in six years, and he promptly spent its rollout saying it could very well be the last. Artists sometimes say stuff like that, and it’s easy to brush it off. But wh...

Nightwish mastermind Tuomas Holopainen looks back on band splits, drunken behaviour and epic fashion disasters

Portishead, British masters of sexy desolation, have not played a live show since they rocked Spain’s Benicàssim Festival back in 2015. (Portishead haven’t released any music in longer than that, but that’s a whole other story.) Next month, though, the group will return to the stage for a small benefit show in thei...

It’s not easy for a hardcore band to remain together for 20 years and to stay vital for that entire time, but that’s what Southern California legends Terror have done. Terror are indisputable OGs in the hardcore world, and you can still catch them playing transformative shows small clubs or VFW Halls, usually with a bunch of ...

Madeline Johnston, the Denver musician who records as Midwife, specializes in a ghostly, tingly form of shoegaze that she calls “heaven metal.” Last year, she released her album Luminol, and it ruled. Since then, she’s collaborated with Nothing and toured with Deafheaven, and now she’s letting the world he...