Big Black Delta

Mellowdrone frontman and M83 touring member Jonathan Bates will return as Big Black Delta with new album 4. Bates says this new single "starts like Whitesnake and ends like Liberace."

Plus: Taken and Mellowdrone opening for Thursday in LA, Massive Attack, Action Bronson, Cherry Glazerr, and more tour news.

M83 collaborator Jonathan Bates recently released a new Big Black Delta album, Trágame Tierra, which includes the song "RCVR" that has guest vocals from '80s chart-topper Debbie Gibson. That song was given a remix by electronic duo Sego, which premieres below...

Tickets for the Lamb of God, Corrosion of Conformity, and Clutch show at The Paramount go on sale today at 10 AM.

Tickets to the New Order show at Radio City Music Hall go on BrooklynVegan presale today at 10 AM...

"Death from Above 1979 tonight. I've been waiting for this since high school" - Kevin


Death From Above 1979, reunited and gearing up for a huge tour, played an intimate one-off show in LA at The Troubadour on August 14 with Big Black Delta...

In his second SXSW performance of the evening, the U.K. singer behind the still-totally-genius hit "Cars" leaned hard against his mic stand as he delivered futuristic songs from the Seventies and Eighties plus brooding tracks from last year's , his first album of new material in seven…

Gary Numan at Bumbershoot 2013 Soundwave Tent (more by Melissa O'Hearn)

Synthpop/goth legend Gary Numan has had an active 2013 with a new album and tour, and he plans to hit the road again in 2...

Slayer/Glass Candy/Polyphonic Spree/Slayer surfer @ FFF Fest 2013

More pics from Day 1  HERE and HERE, pics from Day 2 pics HERE and HERE; and pics from Day 3 are HERE and HERE, Slayer included...

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Tickets to see Amon Amarth, Enslaved, and Skeletonwitch at Irving Plaza go on Live Nation/Music Geeks presales today at 10 AM (Music Geeks password is "musicgeeks")...

Berlin's aptly named Berlin Festival went down over the weekend (9/6-7). The first day included sets from Blur, Pet Shop Boys, Mike Patton's experimental alt-metal band Tomahawk, Omar Rodriguez-Lopez's new band Bosnian Rainbows, The Sounds, Capital Cities, Big Black Delta, and m...