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1. Drop Nineteens Are Back in the Driver’s Seat

   It’s two hours before doors open, and Ira Bornstein is already lined up outside The Atlantis in Washington, D.C. The grinning 24-year-old is clutching a Drop Nineteens skateboard and a tote bag containing four CDs—including two copies of Drop Nineteens’ 1992 shoegaze masterwork, Delaware—three vinyl records, and a rare promotional VHS for the band’s “Winona” […]

2. Why Does the Government Want to Ban TikTok?

   Don’t be surprised if, someday soon, TikTok isn’t there anymore. Governments all over the world have banned or restricted it, and the U.S. government wants to. Some of this is complicated, but most is about politicians expressing fake grave concern about a supposed threat to the U.S. and its children, and won’t someone think of […]

3. Give Charley Crockett Your Tired, Your Poor

   There’s always someone shit out of luck in Charley Crockett’s songs, but the desperation is especially palpable on '$10 Cowboy.'

4. Sam Barber Is in Go-Mode

   Only 21, singer-songwriter Sam Barber has experienced a meteoric rise that fits with what's going on in music today

5. The Scene Report: Fartbarf play 4/20 at Alex’s Bar in Long Beach

   April 20, 2024 The Scene Local Long Beach favorites Fartbarf, clad in their mutated Neanderthal masks and NASA uniforms, made their iconic entrance at Alex’s Bar through a crowd of 275. The Report It was a beautiful, warm, sunny day in Long Beach with a high (pun intended) of 75 degrees. Stoners celebrated their beloved 4:20 […]

6. Update: Pearl Jam, Neil Young Set For Eddie Vedder’s Ohana Festival

   Pearl Jam and Neil Young will headline Eddie Vedder's Ohana festival Sept. 27-29 at Doheny State Beach in Dana Point, Ca.

7. Festival Roundup: Outside Lands, South Star Reveal Lineups

   The lineups are out for San Francisco's Outside Lands and the inaugural South Star Festival in Huntsville, Al.

8. Folterkammer’s Operatic Black Metal Melodies

   Black metal and opera both conjure up certain familiar images. The former, stereotypically, is the province of nihilistic kids in corpse paint, setting fire to a society that’s rejected them. The latter belongs to people from the socioeconomic pinnacle of that very society, peering through tiny eyeglasses at elaborately costumed performers. The NYC band Folterkammer […]

9. MAVIS STAPLES’ 85TH BIRTHDAY CONCERT REVIEW

   “You ain’t gonna do it!” Mavis Staples was insistent, fired up, growling those words on stage at the YouTube Theater in Inglewood, CA last Thursday, her blue duster shaking around her tensed, compact body. “I won’t let you!” What she wasn’t going to do was, as the spiritual she was singing says, “let nobody turn […]

10. Stuntmen, Wizards, and Disco Vampires: 10 Weird-Ass Music Movies

    In the new movie Destroy All Neighbors, a mild-mannered prog-rock musician named William (Jonah Ray Rodrigues of Mystery Science Theatre 3000) kills and dismembers his annoying neighbor Vlad (Alex Winters of the Bill & Ted franchise). Murder usually throws a wrench into anyone’s creative process, but all that carnage helps William finally finish his ambitious […]