Marco Benevento

plus Pussy Riot, Rina Sawayama, Big Freedia, Anti-Flag, Andrew Bird, and more livestreams you can watch today since there are no live concerts to attend.

plus Kool & The Gang, Doug E. Fresh, Marco Benevento, Porridge Radio, and more livestreams you can watch today since there are no live concerts to attend.

With the status of Brooklyn jam marathon Brooklyn Comes Alive up in the air due to COVID-19, the Quarantine Comes Alive livestream will go down instead.

Exclusive/special releases for today’s Bandcamp fundraiser include Superchunk, Archers of Loaf, Arab Strap, The Hold Steady, Straylight Run, Sacred Bones’ Black Sabbath tribute LP, !!!, The Helio Sequence, Cloud Nothings, Mogwai, and much more….

New Pornographers leader AC Newman has paid tribute to Kenny Rogers, who died over the weekend, with this lovely cover of The First Edition’s “Tell it All Brother,” featuring keys by Marco Benevento and harmony vocals from New Pornographers’ Kathryn Calder and Levon Helm’s daughter Amy Helm.

The mostly electronic, jam, and rap fest also includes The String Cheese Incident, Disco Biscuits, Boys Noize, Femi Kuti, Princess Nokia, YBN Cordae, 100 gecs, Turkuaz (w/ Jerry Harrison & Adrian Belew), and more.

The psychedelic pop song gets a perfectly-matched video treatment.

This week’s Notable Releases include Cult of Luna’s comeback LP, blink-182’s second album with Matt Skiba, Discordance Axis offshoot No One Knows What The Dead Think’s debut, and more.

Cassette Store Day, the annual celebration of tapes and tape culture, holds its 2019 edition on October 12.

Plus: Tool/Killing Joke, Anamanaguchi, SECT, and more.