(Yes, it’s a Taylor Swift column. The reason is simple: This is a pop column, and every artist in the industry knows better than to release a pop album the same week as Taylor Swift. What else is there to write about? Pearl Jam? UB40? Raffi?)

Pearl Jam visited their fellow ’90s icon Howard Stern’s SiriusXM radio show this week to promote new album Dark Matter. We posted a bunch of interview clips from the show on Wednesday, and now several performance videos have gone live.

Today, Richmond underground metal lifers Inter Arma release New Heaven, their first album of new material in five years. All the advance singles — the title track, “Concrete Cliffs,” “Desolation’s Harp” — were titanic, and I kept meaning to listen to the advance stream of the ...

For nearly two decades, Ross Farrar has been the lead singer for Ceremony, a truly great California punk band that won’t stop changing its approach. Earlier this year, a giant crowd packed into the Hollywood Palladium to see Ceremony play their 2010 classic Rohnert Park in full for what’s apparently going to be the only time ...

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