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YES—Steve Howe, Geoff Downes, Jon Davison, Billy Sherwood, and Jay Schellen—are proud to announce their 24th studio album AURORA will be released on June 12 via InsideOutMusic/Sony Music. As Howe explains: “Making this record was joyful, a chance to play, explore and give everything to the music. It’s always been about collaboration, somebody can write a song, but until everybody puts their contribution in it isn’t really a […]

“Ramble On” – Robert Plant with Saving Grace (LIVE on The Late Show) Backed by his newest band, Saving Grace, Robert Plant performs an old tune of his (Led Zeppelin’s “Ramble On”) on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. Lecrae: Tiny Desk Concert Celebrating his recent album Reconstruction: Second Story, Lecrae is the most recent […]

Microtonal cardboard duo Angine de Poitrine and the band’s management company, Spectacles Bonzaï, have announced the signing of worldwide distribution agreements for the physical release of the band’s two albums on vinyl and CD. The band’s debut, Vol. I, as well as the follow-up, Vol. II, are both set for global release on June 12. Following the breakout success of Vol. II, which was released on […]

A lot of people take the name Sugar Horse to be a drug reference. I suppose that’s fitting for a band that sounds like the last hours of a three-day binge. Darting wildly between dark/light, pain/bliss, sacred/profane, Sugar Horse is unpredictable and unrestrained. Formed in what is now considered to be the utopian dreamscape of […]

A passionate troubadour and guitarist, Lewis Stubbs Junior writes with the communion of live music in mind. With skill and abandon, his performances draw listeners in – stories resonate, solos sing, and songs unfold with emotional immediacy. Rooted in music history and always reaching forward, Junior’s sound is shaped by a lifetime of deep dives […]

The idea that a tool is only as useful as the one holding it doesn’t necessarily apply to the art of sampling. Sure, only producers with an innate ear for melody and rhythm can unearth an entire instrumental from one simple element of a classic song, but when the tool at hand is a creative […]

POND has revealed that their latest album Terrestrials, out on Jun 19  on their own newly coined imprint Mangovision via Secretly Distribution, alongside a stream of headline dates in the US this July-September. Marking the announcement is their latest single and video “Two Hands.”  Speaking about the new single “Two Hands,” Nicholas Albrook shares “This song is about when mining company Rio […]

Stephen Becker has always written songs the way a diary gets written: honest, sparing no detail, and best understood in retrospect. On his self-produced fourth LP, Gravity Blanket, the NYC songwriter arrives in full bloom, finding meaning in the debris of an ordinary life. The 12-track collection balances meticulous craft with heartfelt simplicity, all while […]

If You Would’ve Ever Read This, I’d Want You To Know is the new album by San Francisco Bay Area garage rock band Amores Vigilantes, released on March 20. The band is led by main songwriters Delfin Vigil and Christopher Maas alongside childhood friends K.C. Staubach, Jacob Schroth, and Dan Crowell. If You Would’ve Ever […]

No matter how hard ZZ Top rocked throughout their career, the 1980s occasionally saw them swallowed up by their own fame—and the glossy pull of the MTV era. Just look at the video for Velcro Fly from 1985’s Afterburner. With its stiff, almost robotic choreography and a spinning truck that defies any kind of logic, […]

sheep eyes is an LA-based post-punk/new wave/art rock band inspired by the likes of Television, Ought, and Suburban Lawns. Born out of the duller days of COVID and a desire to cut through the distorted, reverb-drenched sounds its city is more known for, sheep eyes is a project that seeks to renounce literalism in search […]

ZOON (Zoongide’ewin), the musical work of songwriter, composer, activist, and artist Daniel Monkman, is announcing their highly anticipated third album, HAPPY THOUGHT SCHOOL, set to be released on June 19 via Paper Bag Records. Zoongide’ewin, meaning “bravery” and “a strong and fearless heart,” was given at a traditional sweat ceremony, and Daniel is the second […]

Iceage has announced their sixth studio album, For Love of Grace & the Hereafter, will be out May 29th via Mexican Summer and will release the new single “Ember” that can be heard below. Produced and mixed by the band and Nis Bysted, For Love of Grace & the Hereafter is Iceage’s tightest album to date, even glossy at times, but not tight enough to dull […]

Surfing the Tube is a daily recap of recent must-see YouTube happenings, from music videos and live performances to interviews and everything in between. Jack White: Derecho Demonico (Live) – SNL Fresh from releasing a pair of singles, “G.O.D. And The Broken Ribs” and “Derecho Demonico”, Jack performs as the musical guest on SNL. White […]

Kurt Vile announces his new album, Philadelphia’s been good to me, out May 29th via Verve Records and releases the lead single/video, “Chance to Bleed.” Additionally, he shares the dates for his 2026 world tour, including a big headline hometown show at The Dell as part of Connor Barwin’s Make The World Better concert series, alongside co-headliners Pavement. The man […]

When you put ZZ Top and John Fogerty together, you’re basically summoning the raw DNA of American rock ‘n’ roll—Texas boogie colliding with Bayou swamp groove. This happened once in this footage of Billy Gibbons jamming with the soul behind CCR.

On April 17th, New York’s Frog will release their eighth studio album, Frog for Sale. A continuation of the series that began with 2025’s 1000 Variations on the Same Song (Stereogum’s Album of the Week) and was followed six months later by The Count (which found fans in Wednesday, Friendship, Dry Cleaning, and MJ Lenderman). […]

Whether he’s living in his van in Santa Cruz, surfing in France, working on a horse ranch in Montana or paragliding in Utah, Tyke James is one nomadic individual, a rolling stone who does indeed gather The Moss, the band name under which he’s written and performed a unique brand of alternative rock, as a […]

“Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers” has never been ZZ Top’s most flashy or recognizable song, but it might be their purest—a loose, loud, bluesy groove that captures ZZ Top at their most natural: no frills, just swagger. And swagging beers is what gave this blue-collar anthem a relatable poof of Texas boogie magic that very […]

Surfing the Tube is a daily recap of recent must-see YouTube happenings, from music videos and live performances to interviews and everything in between. Bon Iver – HEY, MA – Pitchfork Music Festival, Chicago, IL. July 23 2023 Bon Iver releases their very first live album, VOLUMES: ONE (SELECTIONS FROM MUSIC CONCERTS 2019-2023 BON IVER 6-PIECE […]