In June, Metallica announced The Metallica Blacklist, a tribute to their self-titled “Black Album,” whose 30th anniversary is this month. The album itself is also getting a deluxe reissue. As for the tribute comp, it features 53 artists, including Phoebe Bridgers, My Morning Jacket, a collaboration between Elton John and Mile...

For Pink Siifu, born Livingston Matthews, defying genres is about showing love more than anything else. A lot of artists talk about their admiration for a wide range of styles, but Siifu’s music demonstrates a rare eclecticism, toggling from punk to jazz to hip-hop within a single release while shifting focus from project to project. S...

In the new movie The Space Between, Kelsey Grammer plays an aging rock star who is losing his record deal as well as his grip on reality. Rivers Cuomo, whose band Weezer released their iconic debut album around the time Grammer’s also-iconic sitcom Frasier was wrapping up its first season, wrote the songs for Grammer’s charac...

Weezer already released two full-length albums this year — the piano-powered OK Human and the hair-metal-inspired Van Weezer — and it seems like they’re going to keep cranking out new music as they prepare to finally launch the Hella Mega Tour with Green Day and Fall Out Boy. To wit: The band just debuted a new song...

Just over 20 years ago, Weezer made their big return from self-imposed exile when they released their Green Album. A couple of decades later, Weezer continue to endure as an actual literal stadium-rock band. The group released their new LP Van Weezer earlier this month, and they’re now getting ready to hit the road with Green Day and F...