Last month, we asked our readers to tell us the best albums of 2026 so far. Their answers went long, spanning everything from Static Dress ’ injury episode to Tigers Jaw ’s Lost on You to Evanescence ...

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Olivia Rodrigo has announced the inaugural edition of Daisy Chain Fields, a new music festival that will take place at Great Park on Aug. 29 in Irvine, California. Rodrigo revealed the details today ...

In her approach to almost everything, Ecca Vandal takes the idiosyncratic path. In spite of budget constraints, and with no one holding her hand, she’s tossed aside the tired map of how things should ...

The genre affectionately known as emo started out as a wave of internalized rage bubbling under the surface of Washington, D.C.’s Revolution Summer in the mid-’80s. Within three decades, it had ...

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On paper, hip-hop and metal shouldn’t work together — two polarizing genres with very different intentions and attitudes. However, thanks to a new wave of outfits in the late ‘90s and early 2000s ...

They apparently hadn’t paid attention as Slash Records preceded their release of Los Angeles with fellow Masque graduates Germs‘ instant classic (G.I.) the year before. While lead snarler Darby ...

One standout feature of the early 2000s emo music scene was song titles that could barely fit on the back covers of CDs. You probably have fond memories of typing the lyrics of your new jam into the ...

No doubt aware of the gravity of the moment, returning co-founder Tom DeLonge marked the occasion by amending the end of the classic Enema of the State track’s first verse during Weekend 1 of the ...

Ann Arbor-born Deniz Tek arrived at Sydney’s University of New South Wales in 1972 to study medicine. He became the local high priest of American underground rock, asserting his vision on local hard ...

Hardcore, when it first hit punk rock as the ‘70s gave way to the ‘80s, was intended as a corrective. The scene was in danger of being tamed into new-wave niceness, as the best remaining early bands ...