Solids

The 2016 edition of Pop Montreal happens September 21 – 25 at venues all over the city. It’s the 15th anniversary of the festival and they’ve just announced the finalized lineup…

Tonight’s NYC-area shows include Black Sabbath, blink-182, Living Colour, Saul Williams, The Mystery Lights, and more.

This stacked fest already included Thursday, Piebald, Milemarker and Hey Mercedes reunions, plus Quicksand, L7, Dinosaur Jr, Drive Like Jehu, American Football, The Julie Ruin and many more.

You may remember when Montreal’s Solids were a Japandroids-y fuzz rock duo, but they’ve since acquired a second guitarist and taken on a sludgier sound that’s closer to stuff like Cloakroom and Nothing. This is evidenced by their latest EP Else, which came out last month on Topshelf. They’ve now made a performance video for […]

We’re premiering the video for “Worth,” which is lo-fi-ish slacker rock that sounds right out of the early ’90s.

Lots of upcoming NYC shows go on sale or presale today. We’ve got your ticket links.

Thursday and Piebald reunions and the first Hey Mercedes show in years. Also The Julie Ruin, The Bouncing Souls, American Nightmare, Deafheaven, Touche Amore, Rainer Maria, CIV, Tigers Jaw, Burn, Good Riddance, Joyce Manor, Ceremony, The Menzingers, Maritime, Milemarker, and more.

Boston-born record label Topshelf stuffed their CMJ party with the sort of bleary-eyed, ruddy-cheeked indie rock that they’ve built their modest name off of since 2006, but the funereal crawl of Brooklyn folkies Lizard Kisses was asynchronously tapped to kick off the proceedings…

Montreal-based garage pop duo The Muscadettes released the Side A EP this past spring, and they’re ready to follow it up with the Side B EP on November 6 via PaperCup Music…

Former Cloud Nothings guitarist Joe Boyer’s band Chomp released a 7″ this past spring, and this week they’ll release a new tape called Bruise Control on Mirror Universe (pre-…