Xeno and Oaklander

Friday's NYC-area shows include day one of Rolling Loud NYC, New Order/Pet Shop Boys, Jamie xx, Four Tet + Floating Points, The National, Amyl and The Sniffers, Robert Fripp, and more.

Industrial festival Cold Waves happens in September in Chicago, NYC and L.A. and other bands playing include The Revolting Corpse (aka Revolting Cocks), TR/ST, Kite, Actors and more. Some of the bands are touring the US, too.

”Overall, 2021 was supposed to be a triumphant return for music, and although it didn't achieve the heights we all had hoped for, 2020's lockdown gave way to loads of great recordings...”

Today's NYC-area shows include The Menzingers, Inter Arma, Drive-By Truckers, Whitney, Robert Glasper, Buck Meek, Kristin Hersh, and more

This week's playlist includes new music by Moor Mother, Snail Mail, The War On Drugs, Adia Victoria, Pa Salieu, Marissa Nadler, Every Time I Die, and more

Listen to new songs by Diet Cig (Metallica cover), Wavves, Born Without Bones, Bad Bad Hats, Joey Cape, Xeno & Oaklander, Big D ands the Kids Table, Alien Boy, Chief Keef, and more...

Check out new songs from Jenny Lewis, Beach Slang, Saudade (feat. Chelsea Wolfe & Chino Moreno), WH Lung, Bryce Dessner, Woe, Cykada, Automelodi, CHAI, and more.

This week in the Basement: reviews of new albums by Munya, Norway's I Was a King, and Xeno & Oaklander, plus Gary Numan's ’I Assassin’ is reissued on vinyl, Scottish post-punk outfit Vital Idles, and Sudakistan cover The Stooges in Spanish.

Montreal synthwave artist Automelodi is back with ’Mirages au futur verre-brisé,’ his third album -- and first in six years -- which will be out May 3 via Holodeck (the label run by S U R V I V E).

Plus: Sharon Van Etten, Howard Jones, The Undertones, Anna of the North, Xeno & Oaklander, Ratboys, Anuel AA, and more tour news.