Mike Watt

Welcome to Rockville was plagued with weather issues, but things cleared up in time for Porno For Pyros to play their first show since the ’90s on Sunday…

They’re a last-minute replacement for Perry Farrell’s other band Jane’s Addiction, and it’s their first public show since the ’90s…

Created by Bikini Kill’s Erica Dawn Lyle & Vice Cooler, the benefit album also features The Raincoats, Alice Bag, The Linda Lindas, Kelley Deal and more.

The Pasadena, CA festival features LCD Soundsystem, The Strokes, Le Tigre’s first show in 12 years, and tons more.

Members of Green Day, Dead Kennedys, The Damned, Babes In Toyland, Minutemen, Superchunk, The Gaslight Anthem, The Armed & many more feature in S.W. Lauden’s new book about punk drumming.

This week in Indie Basement: reviews of new album by Wet Leg, Orville Peck, Pavement, Mick Trouble, The Pop Group’s Mark Stewart, Kae Tempest, bdrmm, and more.

Mark Stewart (The Pop Group)’s new project ‘VS‘ also features collabs with Front 242’s Patrick Codenys, Pan Sonic’s Mika Vainio, Consolidated, Cabaret Voltaire’s Stephen Mallinder, and more.

Solid Sound 2022 also features Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Terry Allen and The Panhandle Mystery Band, Sun Ra Arkestra, mike watt + the missingmen, Hand Habits, Wiki, Angel Bat Dawid, Iceage, Sam Evian, NNAM, and more.

Phoebe Bridgers, Beach House, Turnstile, Kaytranada, Courtney Barnett, IDLES, Wet Leg, Jorja Smith, Genesis Owusu, and lots more play the festival, which happens in Pasadena in August 2022.

The ”post genre trio” of Mike Baggetta, Stephen Hodges and Mike Watt will be on a massive 42 date U.S. tour in 2022 that includes a stop at the Big Ears festival.