short fictions

The lineup includes Prince Daddy & the Hyena, Saturdays At Your Place, Carpool, Frail Body, Snowing’s John Galm, and much more.

Newfound Interest In Connecticut and We Were Skeletons reunite for New Friends Fest, which also features Jeromes Dream, Dowsing, Joliette, awakebutstillinbed, Football etc, and more.

Plus: Khruangbin, Odesza, A Boogie, SDRE, Heart, Short Fictions, Andrew Bird, Social Distortion / Bad Religion, Rob Zombie & Alice Cooper, and more tour and festival news.

Sam’s list ranges from Sunami to The Dare, with plenty more in between.

The November roundup of our punk column ‘In Defense of the Genre’ includes recent news, reviews, and features, along with a list of the best songs of the month.

This week’s playlist includes MGMT, Torres, Mount Kimbie, Drop Nineteens, GBV, Empty Country, Megan Thee Stallion, Tkay Maidza, more

It finds time for everything from sunny power pop to harsh screamo to lo-fi bedroom folk, sometimes in the same song, and Short Fictions pull all of it off.

”Whereas the last one was a fun one, this one’s a little bit more chaotic and spastic again,” the band says.

Listen to new songs by boygenius, Moses Sumney, Snõõper, So Hideous, Claud, M Ward, John Oates & Questlove, Islet, A Beacon School, Sprain, Kvelertak, and more.

Plus: Chance the Rapper, Drive-By Truckers, Lamb of God, Their / They’re / There, Young Fathers, glaive, Blonde Redhead, Claud, Y La Bamba, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, and more tour and festival news.