Rick Springfield

Plus: Ghost/Mastadon, Boris/Nothing, Animal Collective, Warpaint, Ethel Cain, SeeYouSpaceCowboy, Echo & The Bunnymen, Primavera Sound L.A., Sincere Engineer / Covey, Friendship, and more tour and festival news.

Plus: Marco Benevento’s Follow The Arrow fest, Pavement, Tortoise, Circle Jerks, The Fest, Dion Lunadon, Buddy, Rick Springfield, Yeat / Yung Kayo, and more tour and festival news.

Smashing Pumpkins, Slash, Steve Albini, Gene Simmons, Tom Morello, Nile Rodgers, Machine Gun Kelly, Billy Idol, Garbage, Jimmy Eat World, Lars Ulrich, Stevie Nicks, Joan Jett, and many more also paid tribute to the late Foo Fighters drummer.

Tom Scharpling directed the new Zoom-style clip, which raises awareness for Head Count’s ”Make Your Vote Count” campaign.

Listen to new songs by Napalm Death, BbyMutha, Millions of Dead Elected Officials, Paramore’s Zac Farro, Four Tet’s Tame Impala remix, Colter Wall, Protest the Hero, CHAI/Hinds, Luna (Television cover), and more…

Fountains of Wayne and Ivy co-founder Adam Schlesinger died today from complications of COVID-19. It’s been a real shock — he was just 52 — and there’s been an outpouring of tributes from all over the spectrum…

Plus: Crumb, Reggie Watts, Raphael Saadiq, and more NYC-area shows on sale.

The Milwaukee fest also includes The Weeknd, Spoon, Grizzly Bear, Social Distortion, Pat Benatar, Meat Puppets, Ash, Sugarhill Gang, Jason Isbell, Soccer Mommy, Hurray for the Riff Raff, and much more.

The (mostly) free concert series is back for 2016.

Check out the initial schedule of the new Coney Island music venue.