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...

Don Van Vliet was born to be a cult artist. Van Vliet, better known to most of us as Captain Beefheart, pioneered an unhinged, experimental form of rock ‘n’ roll. He never made much commercial impact, but he inspired generations of artists. One of those artists was young Polly Jean Harvey, who grew up listening to Beefheart b...

Delhi is not for the faint of heart. First-time visitors to India’s capital are likely to be struck by just how loud the city is. The streets are swallowed by drivers constantly honking, wielding their vehicle’s built-in instruments not for road rage but to indicate their movements the way we might use turn signals. While dod...

Right now, we’re in that stretch between Coachella weekends, where a whole lot of big stars are in Southern California. Most of them don’t have too much to do, besides wondering if they’re going to get the call-up to replace Frank Ocean as Sunday night’s headliner. Inevitably, a few of them get book to per...