The Boston hardcore band MOVE was formed with a particular aim in mind: To represent the Black experience in hardcore, a genre that’s never been considered Black music even though it was literally created by Bad Brains. The band took its name from the Black militant collective that was bombed by Philadelphia police in 1985. (Cops burne...

Sidney McCray, the original singer for the massively important hardcore punk band Bad Brains, has died. As Blabbermouth reports, Bad Brains revealed McCray's death in a Facebook post on Saturday. McCray died on September 9. McCray's age and cause of death have not yet been reported.

When artists roll through the Spotify Studios, they typically record a cover of a song for the streaming service's Spotify Singles series. But not many artists recruit the actual musicians who made the original songs to play with them, which is exactly what Denzel Curry did for his entry.

Heavy metal luminaries High On Fire put out an EP of unreleased material called Bat Salad a couple of days ago for Record Store Day. As is tradition with many of these sorts of releases, it’s got covers! In addition to one original track on side A, "Bat Salad," the EP also includes covers of…

Sabatta frontman Yinka Oyewole talks us through the best of DC's finest, Bad Brains