Iggy Pop

”I think people like to portray this image of hardcore is a gateekeepy place where everybody is not welcome, or as this safe space where everybody’s welcome, and it’s neither of those things.”

‘Perfect Saviors,’ The Armed’s followup to 2021’s excellent ‘ULTRAPOP,’ features members of Queens of the Stone Age, Converge, Jane’s Addiction, illuminati hotties, and more.

The Miami festival’s 2023 lineup also features Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Explosions in the Sky, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, Caribou, Black Coffee, Jockstrap, and more.

Duff McKagan’s third solo album is out October 20, and you can pre-order our exclusive emerald green variant, limited to 300 copies, now.

“I’m extremely thankful that I’ll get through this, and I’ll look back at this as something that’s fucked up,“ Homme says, “but will have made me better.“

This week in the Basement: Protomartyr, Baxter Dury, Noel Gallagher, Jake Shears (Scissor Sisters), RVG, Beach Fossils, Juan Wauters, Lanterns on the Lake and more.

This week’s episode of BV Blog Radio is dedicated to the Cruel World Festival, with songs by Iggy Pop, Echo & the Bunnymen, Love & Rockets, Siouxsie & the Banshees, Boy Harsher & more

Iggy was only six songs into his set at Pasadena‘s Cruel World festival when organizers announced they were evacuating the grounds and the show was over…

Siouxsie never got to perform what would have been the only North American date on her first tour in 15 years after Cruel World was evacuated due to severe weather.

Siouxsie closes out the night unopposed, playing what’s currently the only North American date on her first tour in 15 years, but elsewhere there are some conflicting sets to choose between.