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1. The Milk Carton Kids Are Alright

   Joey Ryan waited 15 years for this moment. The day when someone wouldn’t automatically associate his folk group the Milk Carton Kids with all those sad images of missing youth splatted across grocery stores in the 1980s. “That is so fucking cool to hear,” he says after learning that I thought the band name was […]

2. OOIOO and Lightning Bolt: Together at Last!

   You might be disappointed to learn that OOIOO and Lightning Bolt do not actually collaborate on their new LP, The Horizon Spirals/The Horizon Viral. But maybe it’s for the best. The pairing of two of the underground’s wildest bands, powered by two of the most formidable drummers in the biz — OOIOO’s YoshimiO and the […]

3. 5 Albums I Can’t Live Without: Chet Faker

   Name  Chet Faker Best known for Confusing people. Current city Sydney. Really want to be in The woods, as far away from everything as possible. Excited about  Releasing new music. My current music collection has a lot of  Scandinavians. And a little bit of  Japanese. Preferred format  Vinyl, but I wish mini-disc was still a...

4. Justin Vernon Details His Bob Dylan Cover Band

   Now, he’s finally offering a clearer picture of what that actually means -- and it’s not Bon Iver as usual.

5. Geese Fall Tour Includes Band’s Largest NYC Show

   Geese's charmed run as one of the buzziest indie rock bands of recent memory will extend at least through early November.

6. Quicksand Strikes Back With ‘Bring On The Psychics’

   New York trio Quicksand's improbable second act will continue July 17 with its first album in five years.

7. Donavon Frankenreiter Taps G. Love and Moon Taxi for Rolling Together Revue ‘26

   Surf-rock standout Donavon Frankenreiter will hit the road this summer with longtime friend and genre-blurring artist G. Love for a collaborative 16-date East Coast trek. The Rolling Together Revue Summer Tour ’26, which also features accompaniment from Nashville indie rock mainstays Moon Taxi, gets underway on June 5 in St. Petersburg, Florida.  Frankenreiter, best known […]

8. Wednesday’s Karly Hartzman on Writing Through Pain: “If You Can Describe The Feeling, Then You’re Seeing It From A Distance”

   On the opening day of Coachella, singer-guitarist Karly Hartzman of Wednesday briefly looked puzzled backstage as some pleasant but unfamiliar pop drifted over from the nearby mainstage. “It sounds like Christian rock right now,” she says, tilting her head with a smile. It wasn’t, but the confusion was maybe understandable amid the noise and desert […]

9. The Afghan Whigs Arrive at Ruby Year Anniversary With Tour and a Tenth Album

   “You just roll with it, and you don’t think about things like that,” says Greg Dulli, reflecting on, or tacitly deflecting, the fact that the Afghan Whigs have turned 40. It makes sense. The Afghan Whigs never had a consecutive run since forming in Cincinnati in 1986, taking a 13-year hiatus after plugging into six […]

10. Playing For Change Foundation Honors Wyclef Jean, Nigel Barker

    The Playing For Change Foundation gathered artists, philanthropist, and cultural figures at the Rubell Museum in Miami on April 11 for its annual Impact Awards. This year’s sold-out charity event honored Grammy Award-winning global activist Wyclef Jean and acclaimed photographer and humanitarian Nigel Barker while raising more than $2.5 million to support global music and […]