Mike Campbell has announced a new album with his band the Dirty Knobs. Vagabonds, Virgins & Misfits will be released on June 14, and it includes guest appearances from Graham Nash, Lucinda Williams, Chris Stapleton, and Benmont Tench. Campbell’s two previous Dirty Knobs albums, Wreckless Abandon and External Combustion, came o...

One of hardcore’s biggest festivals went down this past weekend in Louisville. LDB Fest — now known as LDBBB because of the involvement of Triple B Records — is an annual heavy-mosh tradition, and this year’s war of all against all featured headliners Hatebreed and Sunami, as well as Florida death metal le...

In recent years, Goldenvoice — the massive festival promoter behind Coachella — has branched out into genre-specific festivals. There is Just Like Heaven (blog bait), there’s Cruel World (’80s goth/new wave), there’s Power Trip (heavy metal). And now here comes No Values, a festival dedicated to ...

Tobias Forge originally conceived Ghost's forthcoming Phantomime EP as a full album, and the 'leftovers' include covers of songs by Motorhead, Rush, U2 and Misfits

Forty years ago today, on February 22, 1983, the Flaming Lips performed their very first show at Oklahoma City’s Blue Note Lounge. But if you could take a time machine back to that moment, chances are, you wouldn’t recognize the band onstage. None of the qualities we now associate with this band — the kaleidoscopic pop anth...