When the Strokes released "Bad Decisions," the second single from their 2020 album The New Abnormal, fans noticed the resemblance between that song and Modern English's 1982 hit "I Melt With You." ...

The acclaimed FX series Snowfall was set in Los Angeles during the crack cocaine epidemic of the 1980s. The new spinoff The Drop: A Snowfall Saga follows Snowfall characters Wanda Bell and Leon ...

A Burning Man attendee has died, marking the festival's fourth death in four years. The man passed away on Friday (Sept. 4) after a medical emergency, and no foul play is suspected. Last year's ...

Bon Iver's Justin Vernon has always maintained close ties with his Upper Midwest homeland, including the founding of his April Base recording studio, the recent reboot of his Eaux Claires festival in ...

Tom Petty passed away suddenly in 2017, but his legacy remains, and so do most of his greatest collaborators. On Wednesday night, the Americana Music Honors & Awards gave their Lifetime Achievement ...

Stella Lefty may not have much style or substance as a songwriter, but at least she knows a good hook when she hears it. Lefty, the Groupon heiress born Stella Lefkofsky, scored one of this year's ...

There was a lot of drama with members of Mastodon right up until the tragic passing of former guitarist and vocalist Brent Hinds last year. What first seemed like an amicable split turned out to be a ...

In The Alternative Number Ones, I’m reviewing every #1 single in the history of the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks/Alternative Songs, starting with the moment that the chart launched in 1988. This ...

Opus Kink are a Brighton band who have been making a lot of press noise, and they’ll release their debut album The Sweet Goodbye this summer. Their sound is hard to describe. It’s a churning and ...

Houston’s Hew have a soaring, chiming take on classic emo. When they get going, they can really punch me in the heart. The group, which includes a couple of ...

This week has been full of outdated indie discourse about whether or not Edward Sharpe And The Magnetic Zeros' 2009 hit "Home" is the worst song of all time. A clip of the group's Tiny Desk ...

A few weeks Clairo gave a vague yet inspiring update on her upcoming fourth studio album, the follow-up to 2024’s Charm and her first for new label home Atlantic Records. We know that the new album ...