In 2019, the Spook School broke up. Now, the Scottish indie-pop band is reuniting to release a new record titled Like A Heartbeat. The lead single "Falling" is out today. "We really wanted to make ...

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Last year, the Scandinavian experimental pop duo Smerz released Big city life, one of our favorite albums of 2025. A few months ago, they dropped Big city life EDITS, a remix compilation that featured ...

In 1991, Negativland, a long-running “culture-jamming” experimental band, released “The Letter U And The Numeral 2,” a dinky synth version of U2’s “I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For.” It ...

Snooper have been making big moves. In April, vocalist Blair Tramel joined Hayley Williams onstage for a song. A couple weeks ago, the band was announced as openers for Mannequin Pussy and Wednesday’s ...

When Ween released their 1996 album 12 Golden Country Greats, it seemed like an ultimate troll move. The pranksterish duo became unlikely major-label artists during the alt-rock boom period, and they ...

In April 1986, Bruce Hornsby and his band the Range released their debut album The Way It Is, and things would never be the same. You see what I did there? It’s not great, but it’s better than the ...

American Pyramid, the latest from the stylistically slippery Wisconsin indie rock guy Graham Hunt, is less than a month away. He’s already shared the rambunctious “Waiting For You To Come Home” and ...

Houston’s Hew have a soaring, chiming take on classic emo. When they get going, they can really punch me in the heart. The group, which includes a couple of ...

Last week, Freese had some further comments about his firing in a Modern Drummer cover story: "I think I'm a pretty good read on people, and I did not see that coming." Foo Fighters just announced ...

Labi Siffre, a UK folk musician influenced by soul and jazz, has had a fascinating career. Over the decades, Siffre has only intermittently been active — a cluster of solo albums in the early ’70s, a ...

This summer brought the welcome news that Royal Trux's Jennifer Herrema had reactivated her Black Bananas project for an album with new label home Fire Records. We soon learned that album is called ...