DANA POINT, CA | Minutes before his set, the sand in front of the Ohana Stage was nearly empty. A few scattered bodies, a lot of open beach, and a sun that had decided to make a point. No shade. No co...

Some lineups only come around once, and on Friday night, Los Angeles got one of them. Iron Maiden is celebrating 50 years as a band with their Run For Your Lives World Tour; Megadeth is out on what th...

Verve Records was primarily a jazz label that eventually dabbled in folk, rock, and some other genres. In many respects, the label's heyday was in the 1960s. Blue Note is often applauded as being perh...

Midge Ure is one of the architects of the sound that defined a generation. As the frontman and creative co-architect of Ultravox, co-writer of "Do They Know It's Christmas?", and the producer behind s...

There is a version of every record you own that you have never heard. Not a remaster, not a better pressing—the one the people who made it were hearing while they made it. Ultimate Ears Pro has spent ...

Remembering Marc Bolan, born on this day in 1947. —Ed. Never got into T. Rex as a kid. I lived too deep in the sticks, and the only kid I know who owned a T. Rex record refused to tear off the celloph...

Leigh, UK | Man set to open Float On Records music shop in Leigh: A Leigh man has described the chance to open his own record shop in the town where he grew up as a “golden opportunity” after years of...

Most music festivals send you home at midnight. This one kept going until the sun came up over the Pacific. For three nights, the inaugural Cali-Country Cruise turned the Carnival Panorama into a floa...

VIA PRESS RELEASE | Ween’s Boognish Provides arrives October 16 from Rhino, bringing together seven previously unreleased concerts recorded during the band’s Chocolate and Cheese tour. Boognish Provid...

Celebrating Mark Farner on his 78th birthday. —Ed. Jesus Funkin’ Christ, Grand Funk. Where does one even begin? Homer Simpson’s immortal description of the band’s members is as good a place as any: “Y...

Irish indie-folk trio Kingfishr have quickly become one of the most exciting names in contemporary folk music, winning over audiences with their soaring melodies, heartfelt songwriting, and electrifyi...

Celebrating Brett Anderson, born on this day in 1967. —Ed. When Suede released their eponymous 1993 debut, Glam fans took notice. No, they didn’t. They leaped to their feet and dug through their close...

Villanova, PA | The Value of Nostalgia: ...Vinyl sales in the U.S. increased by 9.3% last year, according to the Recording Industry Association of America, and about 60% of Gen Z now reports buying vi...

Nobody can turn a rock concert into a full-blown three-ring circus like Mötley Crüe, and they did just that on Saturday night, September 19, at the new F&M Bank Amphitheater in Long Beach, CA, with fe...

VIA PRESS RELEASE | Twenty years after The Open Door debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard200, Craft Recordings celebrates Evanescence's landmark 2006 album with a newly remastered and expanded anniversar...

Remembering Jerry Lee Lewis in advance of his birthdate tomorrow. —Ed. For Jerry Lee Lewis, 1973 was the worst of years and the best of years too; despite a brief turn in prison, the death of a son, a...

VIA PRESS RELEASE | Released in 1986, Orgasmatron featured the line-up of Lemmy, Phil Campbell, Würzel, and Pete Gill. It marked a new chapter for the band, pushing further into heavier territory whil...

These mooseburger-loving Peggers weren’t flashy, but they’ll always be the band of choice for diesel rig mechanics and ice fishermen. They also happen to be one of Canada’s largest exports, and it sho...

Milwaukee, WI | What's driving today's physical media resurgence? This week, Lake Effect is celebrating Bob Reitman’s new album, 12th House, ahead of an Oct. 12 release party that WUWM is hosting at t...

Greetings from Laurel Canyon! Well, I ride on a mailtrain, baby / Can't buy a thrill / Well, I've been up all night, baby / Leanin' on the windowsill / Well, if I die / On top of the hill / And if I d...

Nothing quite signals the end of summer in Chicago like Riot Fest, the city’s annual festival that returned to Douglass Park for a jam-packed weekend of music. The other thing that signals the end of ...

VIA PRESS RELEASE | On November, 13 Chrysalis Records will release a brand new Midge Ure best-of collection Chapters: The Best Of 2026, showcasing music he created in the eighties. This follows his re...

Celebrating Steven Severin on his 70th birthday. —Ed. My favorite Siouxsie and the Banshees fact: the early band, primitivists to the core, ditched axe player Peter Fenton because he was a “real rock ...

VIA PRESS RELEASE | More than half a century after its original release, Minnie Riperton’s Come to My Garden, the extraordinary 1970 debut that introduced one of popular music’s most singular voices a...

The British-American band Foreigner was the late Seventies/early Eighties Great Hard Rock mean—commercial radio conformists who delivered on the occasional great song, and dumb but just smart enough t...

Alexandria, VA | Crooked Beat Records reopening in new Del Ray home this weekend: Crooked Beat Records is reopening in a new location in Del Ray this weekend. Owner Bill Daly announced on social media...

Currently on the road bringing New Order and Joy Division classics to the fans, Peter Hook & The Light hit San Francisco’s Warfield for the first of two Bay Area shows. With no opening act, Hooky impl...

VIA PRESS RELEASE | Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, announce the reissue of the landmark box set Miles Davis & John Coltrane - The Complete Co...

Celebrating Jules Alexander in advance of his 83rd birthday tomorrow. —Ed. The Association didn’t exactly win friends and influence hippies with their square-john antics in the mid- to late sixties; t...

Some albums arrive. Anghellic detonated. Twenty-five years ago, Tech N9ne split himself into three acts—Hell, Purgatory, Heaven—and dared the rest of hip-hop to keep up with his tongue. It cracked the...

Remembering Linda McCartney, born on this date in 1941. —Ed. Paul McCartney was the member of the Fab Four whom so many used to relish knocking around. Whether it was in spirited bar chats or animated...

The dark side of the vinyl revival: As demand for LPs reaches its highest level in decades, counterfeiters are cashing in on the record boom. The unlikely resurgence of vinyl has delivered plenty of u...

There are rock stars, there are pop stars, and then there’s “Weird Al” Yankovic—a 66-year-old accordion player who has spent more than four decades turning other people’s hits into punchlines, and who...

VIA PRESS RELEASE | Naked Raygun, one of the most influential bands in Chicago punk history, will release Live at Riot Fest on November 6, 2026 via Loud Pizza Records. The 2xLP, pressed on Raygun Infr...

Marvin Gaye's career was cut short at the age of 44, as he was launching a comeback, when he was murdered by his father in 1984. In his short life, he made some of the best R&B and soul music ever, an...

PHOTO: MIKE OWEN | Everybody has one Soft Cell song. For most people, it is “Tainted Love,” and that is fine. It is a perfect record. It is also a door, not a house. I went through the door at fourtee...

Remembering John Coltrane, born on this date in 1926. —Ed. John Coltrane’s Atlantic period presents an arresting convergence of circumstances. It was a time of raised profile and considerable transiti...

Why Record Stores Are Making A Comeback In The Streaming Era: ...It’s not streaming versus vinyl. It never really was. ERA said it best: record stores give music lovers a genuine space to listen, coll...

Three distinct voices of modern rock assembled Thursday night, September 17, at Honda Center in Anaheim, CA: Dorothy's blues-soaked hard rock, the unmistakable alternative-rock legacy of Stone Temple ...

VIA PRESS RELEASE | The Velvet Underground’s influential 1969 classic The Velvet Underground is the latest addition to UMe’s Vinylphyle series, presenting Lou Reed’s intimate original “Closet Mix” of ...

Celebrating Joan Jett on her 68th birthday. —Ed. Joan Jett’s 1979 debut LP is one of rock music’s most joyful readymades--an utterly endearing romp through rock history from hoary old standards (“Wool...

There’s nobody quite doing it like Joshua Idehen. Blending razor-sharp spoken word with euphoric electronic production, the London-born, Berlin-based artist has carved out a space entirely his own; on...

Celebrating Nick Cave on his 69th birthday. —Ed. Need a fitting soundtrack for tuning up that rattletrap fuel-guzzling dragster in the garage? Or are you looking for a fab backdrop whist brushing up o...

Grand Ledge, MI | MI-Rural Records celebrates the vinyl comeback with music, turntables, and community events: As music lovers of all ages embrace the return of physical media, MI-Rural Records in dow...

VIA PRESS RELEASE | Pink Floyd announce a new San Tropez Orange Marble vinyl edition of their landmark 1971 album Meddle, for this year’s National Album Day, via Sony Music. Out on October 17th, you c...

VIA PRESS RELEASE | Vinylphyle is celebrating the 50th anniversary of Bee Gees’ 1976 smash Children of the World with a meticulously crafted new premium vinyl edition of the group’s transformative 14t...

Remembering Jesse Ed Davis, born on this day in 1944. —Ed. Prior to his death in 1988, the noted Native American guitarist Jesse Ed Davis played on records by numerous big names, including Bob Dylan, ...

I planned to experience Kabaka Pyramid’s Rebel Music – The Lyrics Tape for the first time on vinyl. I preordered the record and convinced myself I would wait for it to arrive before listening. That pa...

What a wonderful story—English free improvisational guitarist Derek Bailey, finding himself with time on his hands, spends several years playing along with some odd music he hears on pirate radio. He ...

Raleigh, NC | Collecting the dying medium: Why physical media appeals to the internet generation. By most measures, physical media has been sundowning for decades, from music to TV and movies to video...