One item you might want to look for this coming Record Store Day: Non Violent Femmes, a new compilation that features a bunch of female-fronted bands — Speedy Ortiz, Eternal Summers, Joanna Gruesome — from the indie-rock underground. One of the contributing bands is the Philly fuzz-rock unit Bleeding Rainbow, and they take on...

Someone needs to write the hidden history of hardcore bands and the Violent Femmes’ mathematical nerd-rage anthem “Kiss Off,” the closest than any acoustic band ever came to writing Suicidal Tendencies “Institutionalized.” The night after I graduated from high school, I watched Avail, my favorite...

Alkaline Trio are set to release their new album, Damnesia on July 11. The 15-track effort will feature acoustic reworkings of songs from their back catalogue, two new songs and a cover of Violent Femmes' I Held Her In My Arms. In other news, bassist/vocalist Dan Andriano will release his debut solo album, Hurricane Season in August through Asia...

Midnight Oil's Rob Hirst, Jim Moginie and Martin Rotsey have joined with bass player Brian Ritchie of US group Violent Femmes to form a new surf rock band called The Break

When Gnarls Barkley aren't getting reverse-covered by Violent Femmes or making fine videos with and without Justin Timberlake, maybe they're still going a little crazy. On "Mystery Man", from the duo's upcoming EP for the track "Who's Gonna Save My Soul?" from this year's The Odd Couple, Cee-Lo waxes soulful amid shivering TV on the Radio-style ...