This year, the venerated Pacific Northwest indie label Kill Rock Stars turns 30, and the label has been celebrating that anniversary with a series called Stars Rock Kill (Rock Stars). A whole lot of people have been covering a whole lot of songs from the KRS catalog. That list includes Mike Watt doing Bikini Kill, Califone doing Mecca Normal, an...

Last year, HEALTH released DISCO4 :: PART I, a full-length album collecting the band’s collaborative singles with the likes of 100 gecs, JPEGMAFIA, Soccer Mommy, Full Of Hell, Xiu Xiu, and the Soft Moon. It looks like they’re already getting started on PART II, and they’re kicking things off with a bang. A Nine Inch...

Liars, which has functioned as the solo project of longtime vocalist Angus Andrew for about half a decade now, haven’t released an album since 2018’s Titles With The Word Fountain. Andrew has popped up intermittently since then, remixing P.E. in pre-pandemic times and duetting with Jamie Stewart on the recent Xiu Xiu album. N...