Olivia Rodrigo Performs 'Bathwater' With No Doubt At Coachella Summer music festival season rolls on today (April 23) with lineup announcements for San Francisco’s Outside Lands and the inaugural South Star Festival in Huntsville, Al. The former will be headlined by Tyler, the Creator, the Killers and Sturgill Simpson, while the latter is anchored by Gwen Stefani and blink-182. Outside Lands, which will be held Aug. 9-11 at Golden Gate Park for the 16th time, also features a country set from Post Malone in the vein of his Stagecoach appearance this weekend. The Postal Service, Grace Jones, Ka ..read more

Blast Rites: December 2020’s Hottest Metal More from Spin: Blast Rites: December 2020’s Hottest Metal Black metal and opera both conjure up certain familiar images. The former, stereotypically, is the province of nihilistic kids in corpse paint, setting fire to a society that’s rejected them. The latter belongs to people from the socioeconomic pinnacle of that very society, peering through tiny eyeglasses at elaborately costumed performers. The NYC band Folterkammer – German for “torture chamber” – sees the distance between those worlds as largely superficial. Their music seeks to collapse ..read more

KISS Introduces Digital Avatars During Final Show In New York In the new movie Destroy All Neighbors, a mild-mannered prog-rock musician named William (Jonah Ray Rodrigues of Mystery Science Theatre 3000) kills and dismembers his annoying neighbor Vlad (Alex Winters of the Bill & Ted franchise). Murder usually throws a wrench into anyone’s creative process, but all that carnage helps William finally finish his ambitious prog-rock opera. In fact, sitting in on drums for the sessions is Vlad’s limbless torso, which holds the sticks and operates the kick drum with his intestines.  More ..read more

KISS Introduces Digital Avatars During Final Show In New York In the new movie Destroy All Neighbors, a mild-mannered prog-rock musician named William (Jonah Ray Rodrigues of Mystery Science Theatre 3000) kills and dismembers his annoying neighbor Vlad (Alex Winters of the Bill & Ted franchise). Murder usually throws a wrench into anyone’s creative process, but all that carnage helps William finally finish his ambitious prog-rock opera. In fact, sitting in on drums for the sessions is Vlad’s limbless torso, which holds the sticks and operates the kick drum with his intestines.  More ..read more

The 10 Best Reissues of September: Billy Gibbons, Factory Records, and the Most Important Cassette of the CD Era A Certain Ratio – It All Comes Down to This Mute Eclectic post-punkers A Certain Ratio have enjoyed a remarkably long shelf life. A staggering 45 years into their career, the disco-funk/industrial-jazz/world-dance stalwarts have outlasted pretty much everyone and everything in the influential Manchester scene from which they arose.  More from Spin: The 50 Best Albums of 1982 The 10 Best Reissues of September: Billy Gibbons, Factory Records, and the Most Important Cassette of ..read more

Pearl Jam, Neil Young To Headline Eddie Vedder's Ohana Festival In their first full band appearance on SiriusXM’s The Howard Stern Show, Pearl Jam debuted two songs this morning (April 22) from their new album, Dark Matter, while also sharing stories with the host during a two-plus hour segment. Appearing live from their Seattle warehouse, the band first played the surging Dark Matter opener “Scared of Fear” and then the frenetic, punky “Running.” When Stern asked if he could choose a couple of other songs for Pearl Jam to perform, he initially suggested “Daughter” and “Glorified G,” but fron ..read more

Fat Dog’s Chaos Mode Fat Dog are kind of a wreck. After being “tied up with something,” frontman and Fat Dog mastermind Joe Love finally beams in on his girlfriend’s phone, because he apparently has a chronic problem of losing his own. He keeps yawning and apologizes, semi-unconvincingly promising, “These are interesting questions.” Synth player Chris Hughes is on the call, too, but off-camera and issuing the caveat: “I’m having fever moments right now where I think I’m standing up but I’m lying down.” “Chris got strep throat yesterday, and before that, our drummer had space herpes or somethi ..read more

Pizza Thrash Is Ready to Eat the World With 350 slices consumed every second in the USA, pizza is possibly the universal food. But despite its beloved status, the cheesy foodstuff is at the heart of a contentious cultural debate in a corner of the metal world. Meet pizza thrash: the microgenre proving as divisive as dropping pineapple pieces on a Sicilian slice. Fans say it’s fun, naysayers claim it’s derivative. One thing’s for sure: It’s gloriously cheesy. Thrash metal, the high-speed riff-fest pioneered by bands like the Bay Area “big four” (Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, and Anthrax), was o ..read more

2024 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Nominees: Snubs, Surprises, Long Shots The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame tried out a whole new way of announcing the class of 2024 tonight (April 21) during a themed episode of ABC’s American Idol, during which the season 22 hopefuls sang songs by past inductees. A record eight artists will be enshrined this year, with Mary J. Blige, Cher, Dave Matthews Band, Foreigner, Peter Frampton, Kool & the Gang, Ozzy Osbourne, and A Tribe Called Quest making the cut out of the 15 nominees announced in February. Cher, Frampton, Foreigner and Kool & the Gang were on t ..read more

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