The second installment of Pharrell’s Something In The Water festival kicks off today. After moving the event away from Virginia Beach — citing “toxic energy” and the police killing of his cousin Donovan Lynch — Pharrell’s now set to take over DC this weekend. The lineup is impressive, f...

In October of 2002, the Libertines released their debut album Up The Bracket. At the same time that the garage rock revival was in full swing across the ocean in New York, Up The Bracket helped usher in a new era of British rock music in the wake of Britpop and post-Britpop. Even if you don’t necessarily hear about the Libertines that ...

Pharrell Williams launched his Something In The Water music festival in his hometown of Virginia Beach in 2019. Thanks to the pandemic and who knows what else, the fest has not yet returned for a second iteration, but it’s finally going to happen this summer in a new locale a little further up the coast. Last fall Pharrell announced he...

The Flint, Michigan trio Greet Death released New Hell, an album of gorgeously sad and heavy shoegaze, in 2019. It ruled. Since then, the band has expanded to a four-piece, and they’ve started to sketch out a completely different sound, which also rules. In the past few months, Greet Death have released two standalone singles, &#82...

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