Tonight at a concert in Albany, NY, post-hardcore luminaries Thursday debuted their first new single since 2011. It’s called “Application For Release From The Dream,” and it’s online now, 13 years to the day since the release of 2011’s No Devolución. It’s also the first Thursday song w...

I don’t tend to think of Paul Simon as an old man, but the guy has been around since the early ’60s, and he is 82 years of age. It’s nice that the world gets to appreciate a legendary figure like that while he’s still around to see it. The first part of In Restless Dreams, the new Paul Simon docuseries deb...

Joanna Newsom live shows don’t happen very often. Newsom hasn’t released an album since 2015’s Divers, and she’s played exactly one concert in the past four years. That gig was last year, and it was a surprise set opening for Fleet Foxes in Los Angeles. (Fleet Foxes’ Robin Pecknold set the whole ...

The last time the California avant-metal band Mr. Bungle appeared on this website, it was not for a good reason. In January, Theo Lengyel, the band’s original keyboardist and saxophonist, was arrested and charged with the murder of his girlfriend. Lengyel parted ways with Mr. Bungle after the release of their 2005 album Disco Volante. ...

The Jesus And Mary Chain have had a wild run over the past forty-plus years. Brothers William and Jim Reid grew up on a Scottish council estate, and they started a band whose noise-blasted fuzz-pop inspired multiple generations of music. Along the way, the group played notorious shows that devolved into violence, went through countless lineup ch...