A few days ago, Beth Gibbons of Portishead shared her debut solo album Lives Outgrown. The lead single was “Floating On A Moment,” which topped our Best Songs Of The Week list. The English musician performed that track live in studio for BBC 6... more info

Earlier this year, Wednesday welcomed Drive-By Truckers’ Patterson Hood on stage for a Neil Young cover while stopping in Athens on their tour. On Friday, the indie rock band (who released the best album of 2023) played the Bellwether in Los Ang... more info

Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker kicked up a shitstorm with his commencement speech at Benedictine University on May 11. Speaking to graduates from the Catholic college, Butker made a number of controversial comments. He described pride m... more info

The Juliana Hatfield Three got back together in 2015 for Whatever, My Love , their first release as a band since their 1993 debut Become What You Are. They toured behind that album at the time, but Hatfield has mostly reverted back to solo mode �... more info

Black Dresses, the noise-pop collaboration between Devi McCallion and Ada Rook, haven’t put out a new album in two years, since 2022’s Forget Your Own Face . Individually, McCallion and Rook have kept busy with side projects and one-offs of t... more info

UK indie rockers Hard-Fi got started in the early ’00s and went on hiatus in 2014. In their day, Hard-Fi were a big deal in their homeland, with two chart-topping albums and a couple of top-10 singles. Hard-Fi took an extended break after the re... more info

Next month, a new Tom Petty tribute compilation called Petty Country: A Country Music Celebration of Tom Petty is coming out. We’ve shared covers by Dolly Parton and Chris Stapleton from it already, and it also includes contributions from Willie... more info

For nearly two decades, Steve Albini and his band Shellac were fixtures at the Primavera Sound Festival. Shellac first played the Barcelona fest in 2006. They missed the next year, but since 2008, Shellec have played every incarnation of Primavera... more info

It’s been five years since Yoni Wolf’s ever-evolving indie band WHY? released their last album, the visual LP AOKOHIO . Since then, Wolf has covered the Silver Jews and Allen Ginsberg and collaborated with Foxing and Temps. This summer, WHY? ... more info

This past weekend, Goldenvoice’s nostalgia-heavy indie fest Just Like Heaven came to the Rose Bowl in Pasadena. The show’s lineup featured blog stars like the Postal Service, Death Cab For Cutie, the War On Drugs, Miike Snow, and Passion Pit. ... more info