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1. Like Father, Like Son: Dweezil Zappa Celebrates 20 Years of Frank Zappa Live

   Twenty years after first bringing his father’s groundbreaking music back to concert stages, Dweezil Zappa will mark the milestone later this year with his all- new DZ20: Like Father, Like Son Tour. The extensive North American trek launches October 22 in Phoenix and concludes December 5 in Las Vegas and celebrates two decades since Dweezil […]

2. Phoebe Bridgers Playing MSG For A Buck This Week

   Phoebe Bridgers' increasingly ambitious pop-up tour has officially reached arena scale.

3. Mastodon Honors Brent Hinds With ‘Your Ghost Again’

   "Your Ghost Again" arrives alongside a video assembled from archival footage spanning his years in the group.

4. New Age for Iceage

   Recently, that other long-running music magazine published a list of the 100 Greatest Punk Albums and their picks left me pondering the exact boundaries of punk (which, admittedly, is not a very punk thing to do). Like, if a band’s first album is punk, are they a punk band for life?  I asked this again […]

5. Go Back to the Beginning With The Smashing Pumpkins

   It’s hard to think of the Smashing Pumpkins in terms of smallness. There was a time before the cultural shakedown of Siamese Dream (1993) and the monolithic 28-track Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (1995) pushed the group’s theatrical rock to near ubiquity. We also need to look past the three decades since then when […]

6. SHIVER ME TIMBERS

   Pirate metal has been around since the mid 1980s — I know, we just heard about it — and it’s what you’d expect it to be: a subgenre of metal defined by nautical influences, maritime-themed lyrics, and musicians wearing pirate costumes.  This style blends metal subgenres with traditional sea shanties, accordions — accordions are rare […]

7. Charli xcx’s ‘Music, Fashion, Film’ Coming In July

   She'll presumably show off some new rock moves during a handful of summer festival appearances.

8. M.I.A Sues Kid Cudi For $3M After Tour Firing

   Weeks after being fired from Kid Cudi's Rebel Ragers Tour, M.I.A. has fired back with a lawsuit seeking more than $2.8 million in damages.

9. Best Albums of 2026 (So far)

   So many great albums this year, such a tough list to compile. The result is a globe-trotting cornucopia of rock, alternative, pop, alt-country, jazz, and even classical, from established music veterans to a new generation of artists who are challenging the boundaries of genre in the best of ways.  Here are our favorites so far, […]

10. Patton Oswalt Wants to Make You Laugh, Then Make You Think, Then Maybe Direct a Movie 

    Patton Oswalt is a chronicler of the topical and deeply personal. Whether he’s agitated or playful, his comedy has long grappled with the frustrations of real life at ground-level and the larger uncertainties of this volatile political moment.  It has taken him through grim territory but also intimate moments of uplift. As he once pondered […]