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For some, the mere thought of being seen is like standing alone on a dark road as a car’s bright lights lock onto you. Will the person in the car notice you in time or will they strike you? A similar tension jolts through Alex G’s 10th studio album—and major label debut—Headlights. It doesn’t shy away from the glare, but rather steps into it.

Naturally, there’s a question of whether a bigger platform might sand away the lo-fi scuzz and elusive storytelling that made Alex a cult figure. The gorgeous but strange Headlights, though, resists that flattening at every turn. Alex keeps the curtains open just enough to let us observe the weirdness that still dwells within. He lets the light cast across the mess—the cracks in the drywall, the splintering wooden floor, and uneven paint—not out of reluctance, but with the...

Elliott Smith’s former band Heatmiser are celebrating 30 years of their 1996 album Mic City Sons with an expanded, 2xLP reissue. The new edition arrives on July 25th courtesy of Third Man Records.

The new package features a remastered LP of Mic City Sons’ 12 original songs, plus a new LP containing a set of rare demos and unreleased tracks. The set will arrive on standard black vinyl and limited-edition Sunset Pink Transparent & Starry Night Blue Glitter vinyl. Heatmiser have also offered a new teaser detailing the making of Mic City Sons and its legacy 30 years later; watch it below. Pre-orders are ongoing.

Released on October 29, 1996, Mic City Sons served as Heatmiser’s third and final album. Though it was met with acclaim, the project was an extremely challenging endeavor for the quartet and led to their disbandment; initially, the album was supposed to be Heatmiser’s major label debut, but upon...

Amazon Music will exclusively stream performances from Primavera Sound 2025, set to take place from Thursday, June 5th to Saturday, June 7th.

Hosted at the Parc del Fòrum in Barcelona, Spain, the sold-out festival — the 23rd edition of Primavera Sound — features a lineup headlined by Charli Xcx, Sabrina Carpenter, and Chappell Roan, and many other artists.

Amazon Music will produce and broadcast the performances on its Twitch and Prime Video channels, with the stream scheduled to begin each day at 1:30 p.m. Et. Beyond performances, fans will get to view artist interviews and behind-the-scenes content.

Other performers featured in the livestream include Fontaines D.C., Beabadoobee, Idles, Jamie xx, Kim Deal, Mj Lenderman, Stereolab, TV on the Radio, Waxahatchee, Wet Leg, Caribou, Floating Points, Aminé, and many more. Momma will also deliver a tribute to Elliott Smith with an Amazon Music Original cover of “Christian Brothers.”

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“When the light came big and bright, I began another life,” Alex G sings slowly, like he’s making sense of it, on his new single, “Afterlife.” It’s a pleasant meditation on growing up (“We were mean and 17/Make it like a dream,” goes another lyric) imbued with nostalgic touches like winsome “Maggie May”–style mandolin, a big Max Weinberg snare drum, and even a false ending saved by more mandolin. The song features on his upcoming 10th studio album, Headlights, due out July 18.

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Alex G is going back on tour. The musician has unveiled dates for his upcoming North American tour scheduled for September and October, with stops at Radio City Music Hall, The Greek Theatre, Ryman Auditorium, and more.

Alex G will be joined on the road by Nilüfer Yanya for the duration of the 16-date tour. The trek will begin on Sept. 11 in Boston and extend through Oct. 11 with a concluding show in Philadelphia. Additional stops are scheduled in Cleveland, Toronto, Chicago, Denver, Oakland, Phoenix, Atlanta, and more.

General sale for the tour begins on Thursday,...

Elton John retired from touring in 2023, and last year, he experienced a serious health scare involving his vision. But for an artist with his work ethic and drive, slowing down was never really an option. In fact, his latest collaborative album, with country maverick Brandi Carlile, is a heartwarming burst of rejuvenation and reflection. Elton has always been one of music’s most avid team players — his last album was the all-star Lockdown Sessions (which included a tune with Carlile), his most recent mega-hit was a remix with Dua Lipa,...

Pulitzer-finalist podcast network Radiotopia from Prx today announced three new podcasts joining the network, including Never Post hosted by Mike Rugnetta, the emotional investigative show, Proxy with Yowei Shaw, and an ongoing compendium of audio masterworks, Selects, created by Room Tone and hosted by Mitra Kaboli.

Also this spring, Hrishikesh Hirway of Song Exploder releases a new conversational series, Key Change, and Normal Gossip from Defector Media will be hosted by Rachelle Hampton. The political history talk show This Day in Esoteric Political History will also present topical historical perspectives under the banner of This Day with new episodes hosted by Jody Avirgan, Kellie Carter Jackson, and Nicole Hemmer.

Upcoming podcast releases include the following:

Podcasts Detail Available now - Never Post hosted by Mike Rugnetta (new episodes every other Wednesday) - An engrossing magazine show of interviews, reporting, and roundtables, host Mike Rugnetta guides listeners through why the Internet...

Lucy Dacus braves the freezing cold in New York City to share some songs off her playlist and discuss her upcoming solo album, Forever Is a Feeling, on the latest episode of Rolling Stone’s Song Shuffle.

For those new to the show (which you can also find on our Instagram), we ask artists to take the brave, vulnerable step of clicking through some of the songs on their phone. It might seem simple enough, but as Dacus quips at the start, “I hope songs don’t come up that I’m like,...

Ten years after her Janis Joplin bio-doc, Janis: Little Girl Blue, director Amy Berg returns to the music world with It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley, an adoring portrait of another blazing talent who died way too young, leaving an influential legacy. Every fan — whether those of us who got misty-eyed to his music in the ‘90s or romantic teenagers discovering him in recent years via social media — has their favorite Buckley songs. Mine oscillate between “So Real” and “Grace,” “Last Goodbye” and “Everybody Here Wants You.” For Berg, whose connection to the artist’s music pulses through every moment of her new doc, it would appear to be his transcendent cover of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah.”

That’s an entirely valid choice and a popular one, it being Buckley’s only song to reach No. 1 on a Billboard chart — in 2008, 11 years after his tragic death at age 30. But it...

Zach Bryan has teased an upcoming film that documents the recording of his “final major-label album.”

On Instagram on Wednesday, Bryan dropped a voice memo — seemingly dictated by Matthew McConaughey, Bryan’s costar in the “Nine Ball” video — announcing Motorbreath, which shares its title with a still-unreleased song that the country star first shared on social media back in November.

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Buddyhead, the LA music website and record label, is getting the documentary treatment.

The group, which was created by Travis Keller and The Icarus Line’s Aaron North in 1998, was infamous for its brash attitude in the late ‘90s and early 2000s with pranks such as stealing Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst’s baseball caps and auctioning them off for a rape charity and vandalizing The Strokes’ tour bus.

Keller and Joe Cardamone, the former frontman of The Icarus Line, are now putting together a documentary with some help from artist Shepard Fairey and Mayans M.C. co-creator Elgin James.

On The Lash: The Buddyhead Movie will be co-directed by Keller and Cardamone and produced by Fairey and James.

“It’s the birth of the internet, it’s the death rattle of the old world and its story of Buddyhead and The Icarus Line. It’s a time capsule constructed...

In 1973, the world saw George Harrison as the Beatle who was winning the break-up. He became a solo superstar with All Things Must Pass, his big triple-vinyl extravaganza, then his noble and star-studded Concert For Bangla Desh. He’d finally broken free of the Fabs and gotten everything he’d ever wanted. Right? Well, not exactly. George turned his spiritual crisis into Living in the Material World, his slept-on masterpiece — the most profoundly weird album of his life.

It might seem strange they didn’t think of doing this new...

Bob Dylan’s “Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door” has been covered by everyone from Avril Lavigne to the Grateful Dead — and, most famously, by Guns N’ Roses, who made it a hit in the early Nineties. Now, actress-singer Sophie Thatcher is tackling the classic for her upcoming horror film Heretic.

The cover sounds like a lo-fi lullaby, with Thatcher delicately laying down her vocals against slide guitar. “The cover version feels very melancholic and feminine, and more dreamy and atmospheric, whereas [Dylan’s] is far more straightforward,” she tells Rolling Stone. “There...

Legendary indie songwriter Elliott Smith’s final album, From a Basement on the Hill, has been remastered and reissued for its 20th anniversary by Kill Rock Stars. Hear the new versions of the songs below, and pick a physical copy here.

Originally released via Anti- Records on October 19th, 2004 — almost exactly a year after Smith’s passing — From a Basement on the Hill has become an integral part of the Elliott Smith canon, both showcasing his incredible talent and hinting at what artistic directions he might have taken in the future.

The new reissue was overseen by Larry Crane, Smith’s official archivist, and remastered by Crane and Adam Gonsalves. The two engineers, who previously collaborated on the remasters of Either/Or and Elliot Smith, used digital transfers from Rob Schnapf and Joanna Bolme’s original 1/4-inch tape mixes.

“When comparing the new transfers against previous ones, plus the existing CD master,...

Fittingly for an album named after an imaginary realm she invented as a child, Beatrice Laus’s sophomore effort as Beabadoobee, 2022’s Beatopia, was eccentric, unpredictable, and a bit fantastical, as if its songs were emanating like rays of light from a shimmery dreamworld sculpted out of ’90s indie-rock fuzz and bedroom pop.

Absent the clicks, hisses, and alien-sounding backing vocals that made Beatopia so appealingly weird, This Is How Tomorrow Moves initially sounds dry and familiar. But there’s a reason for that—and it’s not, or at least not entirely, a desire to court an Mor audience. Where Beatopia was influenced by ways of escaping the real world, from childhood fantasy to psilocybin, This Is How Tomorrow Moves is squarely grounded in frank reality—more specifically, the reality of the 24-year-old Laus striving for a new sense of maturity as a person and a songwriter.

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The deluxe edition of the late Elliott Smith’s major label debut album, Xo, is getting its first-ever vinyl release.

Limited to 4,000 copies, the 2xLP vinyl features every B-side, alternate version, and demo from the recording sessions of the classic album. It’s pressed on 180-gram brown vinyl and comes with a limited edition lithograph of Smith.

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Among the songs making their vinyl debut are the bonus cuts “How to Take a Fall,” “The Enemy Is You,” and “Our Thing.” See the full tracklist below. The record is available exclusively on The Interscope Vinyl Collective as this month’s featured offering. Pick up your copy here.

In his retrospective review of Xo, our own Jonah Krueger described the album as “marrying the powerful, barebones artistry he’d honed on his first solo albums with the adventurous nature of his old bands.”

Smith’s 55th...

Soccer Mommy will ring in the fall season with the new album Evergreen, out Oct. 25 via Loma Vista Recordings.

Sophie Allison previewed the record with the stunner “M.” Similar to her previous single “Lost,” the track shows Allison grappling with grief over stark chords and an uplifting, almost hopeful melody. “I miss you/Like a loyal dog/Waiting by the door to hear the lock turn,” she sings in the devastating lines, admitting in a later verse, “I hear your voice in all my favorite songs.”

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Farewell to the great Martin Phillipps, the New Zealand indie-rock pioneer of the Chills. He was one of the most brilliant songwriters of his era, with a string of Eighties and Nineties guitar classics: “Pink Frost,” “I Love My Leather Jacket,” “Heavenly Pop Hit,” “The Great Escape,” so many more. Phillipps had battled liver disease for years and recently entered a Dunedin hospital, but his unexpected death, at only 61, is a real loss. His tunes were full of alienation and misery, yet with his own distinct touch of human warmth.

Vault Comics has teamed up with Fall Out Boy’s Pete Wentz, Hannah Klein (Everything’s Fine), and Lisa Sterle on the graphic novel Dying Inside. Due out this September, this high-profile release includes limited deluxe editions of the graphic novel, an exclusive merch line, and more. Having read the graphic novel, I was extremely impressed with the storytelling, from the character development to the unique, eye-catching visual style. I recently caught up with Hannah Klein and Lisa Sterle to discuss their experience working on Dying Inside, from teaming up with Pete Wentz and Vault, to the creative process, the story's main character, Ash, and more!

How did you two first get involved with Dying Inside and why was this a project you wanted to be a part of?

Hannah Klein: I’ve been collaborating with Pete for a few years now and we met when working on a short series for Snapchat called “Everything’s Fine.

An all-star Elliott Smith tribute concert titled “All My Rowdy Friends” has been announced by New Monkey Studio, a recording space originally founded by Smith himself.

The show goes down on August 6th — which would have been Smith’s 55th birthday — at the Regent Theater in Los Angeles, and will feature performances from Jason Lytle and Jim Fairchild of Grandaddy, Ben Bridwell of Band of Horses, comedian Margaret Cho, Illuminati Hotties, Cheekface, Aaron Lee Tasjan, and several more, including Scott McPherson, Aaron Embry and Shon Sullivan from Elliott Smith’s Figure 8 touring band.

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The performance is also a 20th anniversary celebration of Van Nuys, California’s New Monkey Studio, which Smith had decked out with all sorts of vintage recording gear and instruments. According to a press release, the studio remains “the closest thing we have today to a functional Elliott Smith museum.

One night last summer, Allegra Krieger woke up to an apartment full of smoke. Unable to unlock the fire escape, she stumbled out of her fifth-floor walk-up unit in New York’s Chinatown and into an even smokier stairwell. “I just took a deep breath and ran down the stairs, and it got thicker and thicker, to the point where you can’t see,” recalls the singer-songwriter, 28. “So I fell, and then a fireman found me and took me out…. Then you’re outside watching it happen. You’re half-asleep,...

Great news for fans of the Nineties school of intimate indie rock: The Softies are back, with their first album in 24 years. The legendary guitar duo of Rose Melberg and Jen Sbragia will release The Bed I Made on August 23, via Father/Daughter Records. The lead single, “I Said What I Said,” is available now.

The Softies have also announced upcoming tour dates for the summer and fall, in Glasgow as well as North America.

Their timing is perfect, since the Softies’ mystique has only grown in recent years, as...

A new Soccer Mommy era is upon us: the Nashville-based musician has unveiled “Lost,” a heartfelt new song that serves as her first release since last year’s Karaoke Night EP.

Soccer Mommy — A.K.A Sophie Allison — debuted “Lost” during her short run of intimate, stripped-back shows in New York and Los Angeles (appropriately titled “The Lost Shows”) throughout the last week. It’s her first original tune since her excellent 2022 album Sometimes, Forever.

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“Lost” is built mostly from an acoustic guitar, hearkening back to Soccer Mommy’s early days performing acoustic sets at DIY venues. “Lost in a way that don’t make sense/ Lost in a way that never ends,” she croons in the chorus, with plenty of longing baked into the song’s warm, dazzling arrangement.

“‘Lost’ feels like something new and something old at the same time,” Allison said about...

Soccer Mommy welcomed guest Phoebe Bridgers onstage Tuesday during her Los Angeles gig, with the duo delivering a rendition of Elliott Smith’s “The Biggest Lie.”

Taking the stage at the Masonic Lodge at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Soccer Mommy (a.k.a. Sophie Allison) and Bridgers first reminisced about touring together in 2018 before launching into their take on the closer from Smith’s 1995 self-titled LP.

Since the release of Soccer Mommy’s third album Sometimes, Forever in 2022, Allison has been on a streak of cover versions, which she collected...

Halsey’s new era is forthcoming as the singer surreptitiously revealed on a mysterious website that a new single is arriving June 4.

This past week, Halsey had been linking fans to a website dubbed For My Last Trick; the website is unrelated to the release of Eminem’s “Houdini,” for which he coincidentally teased, “For my last trick, I’m going to make my career disappear.”

Halsey’s For My Last Trick site is filled with plenty of faux ephemera from the Seventies all strewn across the browser. Most of...

Warning: This article contains spoilers for Hulu's Under the Bridge

Hip-hop and rap music in Hulu's Under the Bridge plays a crucial role in setting the tone, personality, and culture of the Victoria teenagers. Inspired by a true story, Under the Bridge uses music, clothing, and dialogue to effectively set the scene and immerse viewers in the plot. The soundtrack of Under the Bridge blends diegetic hip-hop and rap with non-diegetic ambiance music to shape the characters and enhance the storytelling.

Hulu's Under the Bridge includes a soundtrack of mostly hip-hop and rap music that helps establish the world of the Victoria teenagers. Inspired by the book by Rebecca Godfrey, Under the Bridge dramatizes the story of the 1997 attack and murder of a 14-year-old girl named Reena Virk in the town of Saanich, British Columbia, Canada. The entire show is available to stream now. Because Under the Bridge is based on a true story,...

Towards the end of her song “Amelia,” Samia walks into a party. “I’m writing a poem, somebody stop me,” she sings over balmy synths and a chirpy beat. It’s less of an actual threat and more a self-aware quip from the 27-year-old musician who’s better than almost anyone at turning fleeting moments into poetry.

“I love romanticizing shit, and I always have,” Samia says. “I was an internally dramatic child. There’s something really powerful and something that feels like protest sometimes in writing [my thoughts] down in a song.

It must have been a surreal night at the Grammy Awards for boygenius, who earned wins in three categories. But what was truly surreal was the moment the trio ran to the stage to accept the Best Rock Performance trophy, all while the house band played Mr. Bungle’s wonderfully eccentric tune “Carousel.”

The bizarre moment happened during the “Premiere Ceremony,” which took place before the main nationally televised event. In presenting the Best Rock Performance category, Rufus Wainwright announced the winners as boygenius, who beat out Arctic Monkeys, Black Pumas, Foo Fighters, and Metallica for the award.

The Grammy band then kicked in to the Mr. Bungle song, and after a few moments, the members of boygenius — Lucy Dacus, Julien Baker, and Phoebe Bridgers — came running down the aisle to accept the award.

The fact that Mr. Bungle’s “Carousel” was playing was weird enough, but seeing the three...

2024 is Alex G’s year. On Friday, the musician announced a slate of live shows scheduled for late summer. The North American tour comes after Alex G’s newly-inked recording deal with RCA.

The tour kicks off in June with an appearance at the annual New York music festival Governors Ball but really shifts into motion in August. Alex G will perform a headlining show in San Diego on Aug. 6 and will make stops in Anaheim, Santa Cruz, Sacramento, Eugene, Spokane, Boise, Salt Lake City, and Las Vegas throughout the run.

Loosely organised documentary shows Swedish singer-songwriter González musing about mental health and drifting around his luxurious-looking house

A portrait of Swedish singer-songwriter José González, who is also part of the beat combo Junip, this low-key documentary plays like a cross between a home movie aimed at González superfans, a showreel demonstrating visual effects techniques and a video lookbook for a Scandinavian lifestyle brand specialising in leisurewear and throw rugs. In practice, that means this narratively unstructured piece splices together footage of González hanging out, reading or exercising as the camera pans slowly around the Swedish countryside where he lives in a lovely house. Sometimes we see his pregnant partner Hannele Fernström, an illustrator and designer, resting and reading a book. Occasionally, we follow the couple’s very young daughter Laura as she capers about in the grass and high-summer light while wearing adorable, covetable Scandi kids clothes or babbles charmingly.

Purchasing a home is in itself something to celebrate, but James Mercer had an extra reason to pop the champagne when he discovered the house he bought in Portland had, incidentally, once belonged to one of his musical heroes, Elliott Smith.

Mercer was chatting about the making of The Shins 2003 album Chutes Too Narrow for an episode of the Life of the Record podcast. On the song “Saint Simon,” Mercer sings, “Nothing holds a Roman candle to the solemn warmth you feel inside,” an Easter egg reference to Smith’s 1994 debut Roman Candle.

“I ended up buying the house that [Smith] lived in when he recorded Roman Candle and those things — just randomly,” Mercer said on the podcast. “It was kind of a music house, but I didn’t know. My drummer, Jon Sortland, he had actually lived there as well.”

The house in question was, apparently, well-known among Smith and...

In an effort to defend trans rights in the United States, the U.K., and Canada, dozens of artists have recorded cover songs for a new compilation that will raise money for organizations in those countries. Joanna Sternberg recorded Caroline Rose’s “Everywhere I Go I Bring the Rain,” Rostam interpreted Lucinda Williams’ “Change the Locks,” Wednesday took on Elliott Smith’s “Christian Brothers,” and Model/Actriz perform the Ting Tings’ “That’s Not My Name” on the 44-track Fader + Friends Vol. 1 compilation available on Bandcamp for one month, starting today.

Fader has released Fader & Friends Vol. 1, a real star-studded covers compilation benefitting charities fighting for transgender rights.

There’s a whole lot in these 44 tracks, but here are just a few notable highlights: CoSign alums Wednesday recorded their rendition of Elliott Smith’s “Christian Brothers,” Rostam covered Lucinda Williams’ “Change the Locks,” Ratboys did The Beatles’ “I Wanna Hold Your Hand,” and NNAMDÏ did The Beach Boys’ “Wouldn’t It Be Nice.”

While most of the performers on the compilation — including Caroline Rose and Joanna Stenberg, who covered each other — are relative newcomers, the crop of songs constitute a vast timeline. There are covers of Big Thief, Perfume Genius, and Ethel Cain mixed together with songs by Stevie Wonder, Abba, Tina Turner, and Selena. There’s even an old English folk song (courtesy of Helena Deland).

Fader & Friends Vol. 1 will be available exclusively on Bandcamp for the month of November only,...

Today, Swiss songstress Mary Middlefield returns with a brand new single entitled “Sexless,” alongside its mesmerizing accompanying music video. Her newest release is a brash, rollicking, and raunchy number that really puts it all out there in a form of vulnerability separate from her past material.

The release of “Sexless” follows the arrival of her debut album, Thank You Alexander, which dropped on March 3. Born mid-pandemic, Thank You, Alexander was Middlefield’s cathartic response to heartbreak and sadness. The album reflects her journey through themes of infidelity, romance, and abuse, with songs such as her debut track “Band Aid,” “Two Thousand One,” and “This One’s For You,” garnering support from music publications like Clash, Notion, and The Line Of Best Fit.

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In Lausanne, Switzerland, wildflower-trails blaze with ultraviolet colour, mountains of myth surround a lake of sapphire. It’s a...

Elliott Smith’s pre-solo band, Heatmiser, is back with another previously unreleased single from their forthcoming rarities compilation, The Music of Heatmiser (due on October 6th). Entitled “Bottle Rocket,” the song was recorded in 1992 and is a transportive artifact from the band’s early days. Stream it below.

Originally included on a demo cassette that the band was using to promote themselves during their 1992 tour, “Bottle Rocket” is not only a time-capsule of sorts, but also conveys Heatmiser’s lively energy and undeniable musical chemistry. Beginning with an appropriate amount of grungy, rock riffage, the song’s arrangement opens up to a melodic chorus with a descending chord progression and call-and-response vocals. Over top, lyrics from the band’s Neil Gust carry a feeling of yearning, albeit, a bit esoterically.

As Gust has explained recently, though, those esoteric lyrics had a very specific and personal meaning. Several years prior to writing “Bottle Rocket,...

With last year’s Laurel Hell, Mitski elaborated on the eclectic, ’80s-influenced sounds of 2018’s Be the Cowboy, synthesizing the lessons she’d learned from her earlier work about multi-instrumental songwriting and thematic cohesiveness. “According to that pattern,” Mitski told Apple Music at the time, “the next thing I’ll do will be completely different.” Indeed, her seventh album, The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We, delivers on that promise, adapting her poignant lyricism to the acoustic strings and traditionally rural setting of country music.

As always, Mitski’s music aches with longing, and by leaning into a bleak vision of the heartland, she unlocks a gothic sense of dread. “Bug Like an Angel” opens the album with the gory image of a bug stuck to the bottom of a glass. Accompanied only by an acoustic guitar, Mitski sounds like a lonesome country balladeer, or the drinker on the...

Get ready to delve into The Music of Heatmiser. The Portland band best known as Elliott Smith’s pre-solo career springboard has announced a new rarities compilation arriving October 6th via Third Man Records, and a demo version of the track “Lowlife” is out now.

Heatmiser initially distributed The Music of Heatmiser — then a 6-song cassette — at local record stores and shows to promote the band before they released their 1993 debut LP, Dead Air. According to co-founding singer-guitarist Neil Gust, this longer package — featuring 23 additional demos, live tracks, rare versions, and previously unreleased songs — came together thanks to drummer Tony Lash.

“Tony found a bunch of forgotten recordings and started mixing them and sending them to me,” Gust said in a statement. “We were struck by the freewheeling energy of the band; you could hear how much fun we were having. In 1992 we could barely afford the studio so it...

The Grateful Dead, Phil Lesh and Friends, and Smashing Pumpkins are just a few artists whose concerts live on in the Live Music Archive, which just recently cracked a whopping 250,000 recordings.

Over the last 20 years or so, Internet Archive staff and music-loving volunteers have compiled various concert footage on the Live Music Archive for viewers to watch and listen to freely. Now, nearly 30 items are uploaded to the Live Music Archive each day, which now takes up more than 250 terabytes of data on Internet Archive servers.

“It’s a huge victory for the open web,” Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle said in a statement. “Fans have helped build it. Bands have supported it. And the Internet Archive has continued to scale it to be able to meet the demand.”

Perhaps unsurprisingly, the Live Music Archive is particularly heavy with jam band footage, including highlight performances from String Cheese Incident, Umphrey’s McGee,...

The Nineties are in full swing on the soundtrack to the recent second season of Yellowjackets.

Yellowjackets Season 2 Official Soundtrack: Music from The Original Series, set for release Sept. 1, will include tracks from Alanis Morissette, Nirvana, Garbage, Elliott Smith, Veruca Salt, the Cranberries, and Pulp. It also features an original track, “Just a Girl,” by Florence + the Machine, as well as Papa Roach’s “Last Resort” in a nod to a memorable moment from the show.

Morissette’s contribution is a cover of the Showtime series’ theme song, “No Return,...

illuminati hotties are back with a breezy, summery new single called “Truck.”

Though Sarah Tudzin is probably best known for her snappy, punk-inspired indie rock, “Truck” sees the illuminati hotties mastermind pump the brakes a bit, fueled by a mid-tempo acoustic guitar chug. She’s spent quite a bit of time on the road as a touring musician, and her latest tune uses interstates and automobiles as metaphors for life’s more psychological adventures — the ones that your Maps app can’t help you navigate.

“You grew up way too fast/ Took your corncob act to the city/ Thought there could be something more/ Turns out Hollywood’s just as boring,” she sings, her voice hushed like she’s taking a page from Elliott Smith’s playbook. Tudzin further explains the meaning behind the track in a press release: “If mortality is a jolting, jagged highway exit, then heaven is...

In 1973, the world saw George Harrison as the Beatle who was winning the break-up. He became a solo superstar with All Things Must Pass, his big triple-vinyl extravaganza, then his noble and star-sudded Concert For Bangla Desh. He’d finally broken free of the Fabs and gotten everything he’d ever wanted. Right? Well, not exactly. George stripped it all down for his sleeper masterpiece: Living In The Material World, released 50 years ago at the end of May 1973. It’s the most profoundly weird album of his life.

Over the years,...

Dogstar, the Nineties alt-rock outfit that featured Keanu Reeves on bass, played their first concert in 20 years Saturday as the reunited trio performed at Napa Valley’s BottleRock Festival.

The 12-song performance boasted a mix of tracks from Dogstar’s lone two albums — 1996’s Our Little Visionary and 2000’s Happy Ending — as well as songs from the band’s in-the-works third LP, including “Glimmer,” “Flowers” and “Breach.”

The BottleRock gig marked Dogstar’s first show since Oct. 2002, the same year they broke up. However, after 20 years of dormancy, in July...

One of the things we love most about the dark Showtime series “Yellowjackets” is all the fantastic ’90s music. Half of the show takes place in 1996, when high school girls’ soccer team crash lands in the wilderness and half is set 25 years later, with the still traumatized adult survivors.

Season 2 features an exclusive track by Florence + the Machine, an eerie cover of No Doubt’s “Just a Girl,” Sharon Van Etten’s “Seventeen,” and such ’90s feminist icons as Tori Amos.

And of course, we love the kind of creepy main title theme, “No Return,” by Craig Wedren and Anna Waronker. The opening credits from Season 1 teased some of the things we would see unfold, and the updated Season 2 credits sequence also gives us hints at what we’ll see in upcoming episodes.

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Experimental filmmaker Kenneth Anger, who also wrote the novel Hollywood Babylon (which was banned in the U.S. when it was first released in 1965) and was considered to be a pioneer of underground cinema, has passed away at the age of 96. According to The Hollywood Reporter, his death was announced by Sprüeth Magers art gallery, which has presented exhibitions of his work.

Anger made more than thirty dialogue-free short films over a career that spanned from 1941 to 2013, but The Hollywood Reporter estimates that the work he did in those 72 years would take a viewer just 8 hours to watch in its entirety. His shorts have been described as “a kaleidoscope of symbolism, homoeroticism and the occult”. Some of his most popular shorts include the 1963 collage Scorpio Rising, described as “a pastiche of pop songs plastered over homoerotic biker imagery, pulp cartoons, Nazism, and paraphernalia”; the 13-minute 1953 short Eaux d’Artifice, which...

[Editor’s note: The following contains spoilers for Yellowjackets, Season 2 Episode 8, “It Chooses.”]

After a riveting first season filled with sonic callbacks to the ’90s, Season 2 of Showtime’s Yellowjackets kicked off with a similarly wistful tone, thanks to the new trailer, spotlighting Florence and the Machine’s cover of No Doubt’s “Just a Girl.”

Season 1 of the series took viewers back to 1996 when a young group of soccer players survives a plane crash and the aftermath forced the characters to deal with a string of psychologically unfortunate events. Considering when the story starts, music from the era is paramount to the series. So far, we’ve heard everything from Portishead’s “Glory Box” to “Rump Shaker” by Wreckx-n-Effect in the series, with Season 2 promising to keep that same energy while jumping in between timelines.

The ’90s part of the series shows Sophie Nélisse, Jasmin Savoy Brown, Sophie Thatcher, Sammi Hanratty, Liv Hewson, and Courtney Eaton playing...

Dogstar, the Nineties alt-rock band featuring Keanu Reeves on bass, has officially announced its live return following a two-decade-long hiatus.

For nearly a year, Reeves and his bandmates — drummer Robert Mailhouse (a fellow actor who notably appeared on Seinfeld) and guitarist/vocalist Bret Domrose — have been sharing videos of the trio recording the long, long-awaited follow-up to their second album, 2000’s Happy Ending.

With that LP completed, Dogstar will return to the stage on May 27 at the BottleRock music festival in Napa Valley, California. The performance will feature new music...

This article contains spoilers for "Yellowjackets and discusses potentially triggering content."

Halfway through the first season of "Yellowjackets," Showtime's smash-hit series about a high school girls' soccer team who resorted to cannibalism to survive after their plane crashed in the Canadian wilderness, it was revealed that Shauna (Sophie Nélisse) is pregnant. Teenage pregnancy is hard enough as is, but enduring a pregnancy while stranded in the middle of the forest and surviving off of soup made from melted snow and random critters sounds like an impossibility.

To make matters even more complicated, the father of Shauna's baby is Jeff Sadecki, the man Shauna would later grow up to marry as an adult, but the boy who is currently dating her best friend Jackie. When Jackie discovers that her best friend and boyfriend were hooking up behind her back, it throws their friendship into such extreme conflict, it leads to Jackie's death.

Rick And Morty's co-creator Dan Harmon once selected his five favorite episodes from the series, which comprise some of the show's best outings. Rick And Morty proved from an early point it was completely willing to throw out the rulebook of how a TV show is supposed to work. Season 1's “Rick Potion #9" saw the duo make such a mess of their present timeline that they gave up on it and moved to another reality, abandoning that version of their family in the process.

Harmon once stated to EW that this was an intentional move to "jump every shark imaginable" and literally reboot Rick And Morty six episodes in to keep it fresh. Rick And Morty episodes can range from the vulgar and tasteless (like season 5's infamous "Rickdependence Spray") to the profound (Rick's storyline in "The Old Man and the Seat"), but the best find a way to mix both tones together.

A video has surfaced of Elliott Smith making an awkward appearance on a ’90s morning show called Breakfast Time, and well, if you’re a fan of Smith, pre-digital time capsules, or just straight-up odd video content, this is a goldmine.

Smith stopped by the FX morning show on July 28th, 1995 to promote his self-titled sophomore album. The video was first uploaded to YouTube in 2019, but recently went viral after clips were shared on reddit this week. Airing from 1994 to 1996, the program was an “informal magazine show” featuring a goofy variety of interviews and segments, and even had a puppet co-host — all of which made it appealing for mainstream American television audiences, but a truly weird choice for the underground icon Smith.

Sitting down with hosts Tom Bergeron (of future America’s Funniest Home Videos fame) and Bob (a puppet) for an interview and performance of his song “Clementine,” the...

“I can’t hide from you like I hide from myself,” sigh boygenius on their keenly anticipated debut album the record. In interviews, the indie supergroup comprising Phoebe Bridgers, Julien Baker and Lucy Dacus have said that writing songs together has enabled them to be more “earnest” than in their solo material. This doesn’t mean that all 12 songs are straightforward confessionals. Most of them slot together with an appealing combination of simplicity and enigma – like those little puzzle cubes made of three types of wood. All the while, you can hear the careful questioning with which the songwriters have honed one another’s thoughts until they slot smoothly together to become satisfying tactile emotional experiences.

the record opens a cappella with the three women’s voices weaving through the old-timey melody of “Without You Without Them”. (The song was written by Dacus and it seems all three wrote independently...