When the 22-year-old producer Mike Varney founded Shrapnel Records in 1980, it became the first dedicated metal label in the United States, beating Jonny Z’s Megaforce and Brian Slagel’s Metal Blade ...

Ryan Gosling is making indie rock again. All the way back in 2009, Gosling got together with a guy named Zach Shields, and the two of them bonded over the shared experience of getting scared on Disney ...

CONTENT WARNING: Sexual violence, sexual assault, and discussions of trauma. When is art successful? That’s obviously meant to be a ridiculous rhetorical question. But Vancouver quartet PISS — ...

Last week, Chvrches announced All The King's Men, the followup to 2021's Screen Violence. So far the Scottish synthpop band has shared "Roses" and debuted the unreleased "Conman" live, and today ...

Last month, Slow Pulp earned our Album Of The Week honor with their third album Melodie. The lead single was a turbulent anthem called “Better Man,” and now the Chicago band covered Pearl Jam’s song ...

Westside Gunn finally came up with the perfect album title. No notes. Magnificent. My only question is what took this long. If you’re an East Coast boom-bap revivalist with a pro wrestling obsession, ...

Last year, MJ Lenderman saluted a fellow indie singer-songwriter with an absolutely sick cover of This Is Lorelei’s “Dancing In The Club.” Lenderman’s version came out on a deluxe edition of This Is ...

Doechii's Swamp Sessions blitz continues. Right now, the newly minted rap star is building up the release of an as-yet-unannounced album by dropping striking self-directed videos for the ...

Julian McCamman is getting a fresh start. Last summer, just a year after his band Blood released their debut studio album Loving You Backwards, the Philly-via-Austin rockers suddenly called it quits. ...

Last year, the tremendously gifted Chicago rapper Saba finally released From The Private Collection Of Saba And No ID, his long-awaited full-length collaboration with the OG Chicago producer No ID.

Last year, bloodsports unleashed their sufficiently eerie debut album Anything Can Be A Hammer, which earned them a spot on our list of the best new acts of 2025. We haven't heard from the New York ...