In 1965, Joni Mitchell moved from her homeland of Canada to the United States. First the legendary singer-songwriter resided in Detroit, then New York, and finally California, where she remains to ...

Within the hardcore world, there's a maxim that the best moshers also make the best lead vocalists, that any band looking for a leader should simply recruit their scene's hardest limb-flailer who ...

In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. The column is ...

As the years pass, it gets harder and harder to believe that Mark Sandman was a real guy — that he made the music that he did, that he looked like that, that he was actually named Mark Sandman, and ...

Santa Monica's inaugural Ocean Way Festival has been canceled. The event had been slated for Sept. 26 and 27 with headlining performances from the Killers and Olivia Dean, but it will no longer take ...

South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone have been working on a movie with Kendrick Lamar for a while now. There's been few details about the project, other than the working title for the ...

The New Zealand-based sisters Clementine and Valentine Nixon are the two members of the dreamy duo Purple Pilgrims. They grew up between New Zealand and Hong Kong, and they've been making music ...

TV On The Radio's Return To Cookie Mountain just turned 20, and when I revisited it, I was struck all over again by how much Katrina Ford's backing vocals added to a bunch of those songs. Ford was a ...

Todd Jones started the Oxnard band Nails way back in 2007, after his legendary tenures in both Carry On and Terror, and they quickly became one of the most brutal, extreme bands on the entire hardcore ...

When we named Font a Band To Watch two years ago, we categorized their music as dance-punk, but that descriptor doesn't fit their new song at all. "Texas" is the lead single from the Austin-founded ...

Forty-six years after his death, John Lennon is now a grandfather. Sean Ono Lennon, the son of Lennon and Yoko Ono, recently announced the birth of his son Aurelius. Sean Ono Lennon and his partner ...

You’re probably wondering, “What’s a lightsphere?” Lily Seabird, who invented the term when she titled her new album Lightspheres On Your Way, defines a lightsphere as a catalyzing presence that ...