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1. The Mae Shi Are Dead. Long Live HLLLYH

   Rambunctious rockers the Mae Shi haven’t released a record since 2007’s HLLLYH, the California art punk collective’s most linear and acclaimed album. Following that, the group went on an extended hiatus so the members could focus on other musical projects, reforming only for a handful of one-off shows in the time since. The Mae Shi […]

2. Every Missy Elliott Album, Ranked

   Missy Elliott is a legend, the best-selling female rapper of all time and the first to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Born in 1971 in Virginia, Melissa Arnette Elliott began making music as a teenager, forming a girl group and drafting her friend Timothy “Timbaland” Mosley to produce their demos. […]

3. Tom Morello Walks Into a Bar…

   In the ongoing Battle of Los Angeles, even the foot soldiers of protest need an occasional break from the fierce urgency of now. And after a few hours of photographing demonstrators on the street during the city’s sprawling “No Kings” protest on June 14, I stepped into the ancient Redwood Bar a couple of blocks […]

4. New Career-Spanning Box Collects The B-52s With Some Omissions

   For a band that announced its farewell tour three years ago, the B-52s are bidding quite the extensive goodbye. The self-proclaimed “world’s greatest party band” recently announced that they will be hitting the road again for a co-headlining tour with Devo in the fall. The B-52s have also released the 9-LP box set, The Warner […]

5. ‘It’s Always on a Fucking Knife Edge’: Inside Blur’s Latest Reunion in ‘To The End’

   On November 14, 1991, I attended the Los Angeles date of Blur’s first North American tour—just five stops—supporting their debut album, Leisure. It was at the Roxy Theatre and before the group took the stage, they wandered around the venue, blending in with the hyper crowd who were dressed in the regulation British indie garb […]

6. THE GOOD SHEPHERD

   “Right before the breakdown hit, I would go: ‘Your dick smells like his asshole,’” says Heidi Shepherd, smiling warmly in her Miami hotel room. Later this afternoon she’s embarking on a Caribbean cruise, but for now she’s reminiscing about Mom and Dad first coming to see her perform. When her folks turned up to that […]

7. Foo Fighters Reveal 80-Second Minor Threat Cover

   The instrumental for the new version, which arrived on YouTube this morning (June 30), is not yet on streaming services.

8. Kendrick, Tyler, Nas Jump Aboard Clipse Comeback Album

   Kendrick Lamar, Tyler the Creator, Nas, John Legend and the-Dream all lend a hand on LET GOD SORT EM OUT.

9. Fishbone Still Have a Bone to Pick

   The initial single from Stockholm Syndrome (June 27), Fishbone’s first new album in nearly two decades, arrived shortly before last year’s presidential election. The bluntly titled “Racist Piece of Shit” pulls no punches regarding the ska-funk-metal pioneers’ feelings toward our current president and his supporters, even if musically, it’s a relatively unambitious (though scorching) tune....

10. From Songwriter to Superstar: Netón Vega’s Meteoric Rise in Música Mexicana

    “I’ve put in time in this industry as a songwriter, so it’s another achievement for me that people are getting to know who I am as a singer,” Netón Vega tells me, relaxing on the porch of his Los Angeles Airbnb, against a summer dusk backdrop. Known for injecting his corridos with plenty of passion […]