20+ min ago   (364+ words) Sepultura arrived at Pinkpop Festival in 1996 with ‘Roots’ changing the shape of heavy music and one of metal’s most celebrated lineups still intact. The full performance is available to watch now through the official Pinkpop Archive, capturing Max Cavalera on…...

51+ min ago   (380+ words) Nadav Tabak is building dance music with his hands on “Electric Roots,” an instrumental collision of electronic trance, driving techno rhythms and organic instrumentation that captures the unusual approach behind his solo performances. “Electric Roots” is out now and sits…...

3+ hour, 21+ min ago   (367+ words) Amongst Liars are pushing into a different phase of the band with “Repair Myself,” an explosive alt-hard-rock single that also introduces guitarist Leo Burdett as their new lead vocalist. “Repair Myself” is out now alongside an official video, giving the…...

5+ hour, 25+ min ago   (361+ words) Van Halen’s landmark 1986 tour is getting another life with the standalone release of ‘Live in New Haven 1986,’ a concert recording that captures the band during one of the biggest transitions of its career. The set had previously been included as…...

1+ day, 27+ min ago   (547+ words) The Beta Band are together again after more than 20 years, making this a particularly good time to revisit the gloriously strange story of how they got here. Frontman and founding member Steve Mason tells that story in ‘Failure Is Always…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (654+ words) Frank Zappa returned to Hollywood’s TTG Studios in October 1966 with The Mothers of Invention, a television crew, dancers, underground personalities and enough unpredictability to make the room feel closer to a happening than a conventional recording session. Six decades later,…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (638+ words) How ‘Whip It’ Turned Devo’s De-Evolution Theory Into New Wave’s Sharpest Concept That Eric Alper Devo began as a theory before it ever became a band, which is a fairly unusual way to build a career in rock and roll....

4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (228+ words) The Group Almost Refused to Record Their Most Famous Song A Classical Composer Ended Up Credited on the Album The track “It’s Nasty” interpolates Aaron Copland’s “Fanfare for the Common Man” right in its opening moments, earning Copland a writing…...

4+ day, 23+ hour ago   (450+ words) That Eric Alper $372,000 against a $66,000 estimate, that was the price Lucien Smith’s Two Sides of the Same Coin fetched as the opening lot of a 2014 Sotheby’s contemporary art auction in London, a sale that captured just how fast the young…...