Alternative Rock
Alanis Morissette Extends “Jagged Little Pill Tour” into 2022
Alanis Morissette is extending her tour celebrating the 25th anniversary of Jagged Little Pill into 2022. Following a run of UK and European shows in June, Morissette will kick off a new leg of US and Canadian dates in July. She’ll once again be joined on the road by Garbage, who also supported the 2021 leg of Morissette’s “Jagged Little Pill Tour.” Tickets to the North American tour go on sale Friday, March 11th at 10:00 a.m. local time via Ticketmaster. You can purchase tickets to the UK dates here. Advertisement Related Video Morissette has also announced a new song called “Olive Branch,” which will be released on Friday. It marks her first new music since her 2020 album Such Pretty Forks in the Road. Alanis Morissette 2022 Tour Dates:06/09 – Copenhagen, DK @ Royal Arena ^06/12 – Amster...
Spiritualized Unveil New Single “The Mainline Song”: Stream
Spiritualized had to push the release of Everything Was Beautiful to April, but they have shared a new song from the album as consolation. Listen to the rollicking new single “The Mainline Song” below. Roaring trains build to a chorus of synthesizers in “The Mainline Song,” which is more upbeat than you might expect from J Spaceman and company. “I wanted to know if you wanted to go to the city tonight,” Spaceman sings, as buzzing keys wash over him. Everything Was Beautiful was originally slated for a February 25th release, but manufacturing issues led the band to delay its release until April 22nd. Written during the pandemic, Spaceman plays 16 different instruments across the record, which also features a huge list of guest contributors along with string and brass sections and...
Sunflower Bean Unveil New Single “Roll the Dice”: Stream
Sunflower Bean test the odds on their latest single “Roll the Dice,” from their upcoming third album Headful of Sugar. The Brooklyn trio grind out a churning, distortion-laden clash against the traps of capitalism, with bassist Julia Cumming and guitarist Nick Kivlen dispensing their disillusionment over its “nothing in this life is really free” hook. Despite the group’s awareness of the challenges stacked against them, they’re driven by a futile optimism that reaches its peak as Cumming recites “I just wanna win, win, win” with a detached persistence. “Almost everyone we know struggles with money,” the band shared in a press statement. “The traditional routes towards success and stability in America have severely narrowed. The only way to get ahead is to take big risks and roll the dice.”...
Alice in Chains, Breaking Benjamin and Bush Team Up for 2022 US Tour
Alice in Chains and Breaking Benjamin have announced a co-headlining 2022 US tour, with special guests Bush. The 30-city trek will run for two months from early August through early October. The outing kicks off in Breaking Benjamin’s home state of Pennsylvania with an August 10th show in Burgettstown, and wraps up October 8th in Mansfield, Massachusetts. Tickets go on sale to the general public this Friday (March 11th) via Ticketmaster, with a pre-sale beginning Tuesday (March 8th). “We’re looking forward to finally hitting the road again this summer,” remarked Alice in Chains drummer Sean Kinney. “It’s been too long and we can’t wait to get outdoors and share a night of music with our fans again.” Advertisement Related Video Breaking Benjamin frontman Ben Burnley added, “We are so extrem...
Nilüfer Yanya Unveils New Album PAINLESS: Stream
Nilüfer Yanya has released her latest album PAINLESS via ATO Records. Stream it below on Apple Music and Spotify. The London native’s new studio effort arrives three years after she burst onto the map with her 2019 debut album Miss Universe, and two years after the Feeling Lucky? EP. PAINLESS was preceded by singles “stabilise” and “midnight sun,” both of which made the tracklist for the 12-song LP. PAINLESS also shows off a marked sonic shift from the bedroom pop of the singer-songwriter’s debut firmly into indie rock territory. “I think I realized, to me, my music always sounded like rock music, but maybe to other people it hadn’t,” she told NPR ahead of the new album’s release. “Now I’m like, it’s definitely rock music.” Advertisement Related Video In her chat with the ou...
Rivers Cuomo Goes Country (I Guess) on Morgan Evans Duet “Country Outta My Girl”: Stream
Weezer’s got an entire genre-hopping covers album that insists Rivers Cuomo is open to anything, so we probably shouldn’t be surprised that he’s now featured on a country song. The frontman has teamed up with Morgan Evans for the track “Country Outta My Girl,” which you can listen to below. “Country Outta My Girl” has all the trappings of a modern pop-country song: twangy guitar and skittering electronic drums that mix like oil and water, a near-rap style vocal delivery, and incredibly on-the-nose lyrics that insist its artists are familiar with Southern culture. Over a scratchy acoustic riff, Evans details the ways that his Southern transplant girlfriend has maintained her country roots, from wearing cowboy boots on Rodeo Drive to drinking dirty martinis in mason jars. After Evans promise...
Band of Horses’ Ben Bridwell Isn’t Convinced Things Are Great, But He’s Trying
Ben Bridwell is just waking up from a nap between interviews. Five years after his band’s last album — a span that felt even longer due to the pandemic — the Band of Horses frontman is back on the press circuit, and it’s tiring. If fielding repetitious questions from journalists weren’t wearying enough, the topics up for discussion have been weighing on Bridwell for years. Written pre-COVID, the stories on Band of Horses’ new record, Things Are Great, are about depression, darkness, and divorce. Singing those songs live is something he looks forward to as meditative (“It’ll probably be more joyful than reflective on what the story is,” he tells Consequence. “It’s more like paying attention to the goddamn chords and shit”), but speaking about them is something else entirely. “I had a Z...
Red Hot Chili Peppers Share New Single “Poster Child”: Stream
Red Hot Chili Peppers are set to return on April 1st with their new album, Unlimited Love. As a preview, the band has shared the breezy second single called “Poster Child.” Take a listen below. Taking a page from Billy Joel’s classic “We Didn’t Start the Fire,” “Poster Child” sees Antony Kiedis rattle off the names of a number of musicians, actors, politicians, and other figures who shaped the last century. “A funky piece, the Sandinista, me and minor Mona Lisa/ Judas Priest has whipped the beast, the mother love was named Theresa,” sings Kiedis in one verse. Unlimited Love is produced by Rick Rubin and marks the first Chili Peppers album featuring guitarist John Frusciante since 2006. The California rockers first previewed the album by releasing the lead single, “Black Summer.” Advertisem...
Bruce Lee Band Eat the Rich with New Single “Did You Find the Money Farm?”: Stream
Bruce Lee Band, the ska project from Mike Park and Jeff Rosenstock, return today with their first new single of the year. “Did You Find the Money Farm?,” their collaboration with Fishbone’s Angelo Moore, arrives with a comical accompanying music video. It will appear on the group’s upcoming LP One Step Forward, Two Steps Back, out sometime this summer. “Did You Find the Money Farm?” is a scathing diss of those who profit most from late-stage capitalism. “You pattern your life after powerful people, follow the path through the door,” vocalist Mike Park sings, his snide critiques backed by the band’s menacing drums and horns. “One step inside and you’ll never look back, you ride on the backs of the poor.” But despite its somber message, the DIY-style video for “Did You Find the Money Fa...
Animal Collective Announce Additional 2022 Tour Dates
Hop into your Time Skiffs and get us to the summer because Animal Collective has expanded their 2022 US tour into June. See the full itinerary below. Previously a 15-city trek along the east coast and midwest, the newly-announced shows take place in May and June and stretch the band’s North American leg to the west. The jaunt now includes stops in Portland, Denver, and Austin as well as The Greek Theatre in Los Angeles and The Warfield in San Francisco. The US run now concludes on June 4th in Madison, Wisconsin. Pre-sale for the additional dates begins on Thursday, March 3rd while general public follows on Friday, March 4th. Find your spot in the Collective via Ticketmaster. Advertisement Related Video The new shows also tout Philadelphia rockers Spirit of the Beehive in the supporting slo...
R.I.P. Chuck Criss, Freelance Whales Member Dead at 36
Chuck Criss, a multi-instrumentalist who performed in the indie rock band Freelance Whales, has died by suicide at age 36. News of Chuck’s death was announced by his brother, Darren Criss, on Wednesday. “The last several years were increasingly difficult for Chuck as he struggled to find stability during an unfortunate rough patch in his life,” Criss wrote in a note posted to Instagram. “Despite our very vocal concerns about his well-being, and his protestations that everything was fine, it’s crushing to say now that Chuck clearly had had a severe depression welling up in him for some time, a depression that was only worsened by a lifelong struggle he had with expressing his feelings – a dangerous combination truly outmatched by his all-too-incredible ability to conceal it. Not just f...
CHVRCHES and Robert Smith Perform “Just Like Heaven” at NME Awards: Watch
CHVRCHES and Robert Smith won an NME Award for their song “How Not to Drown” on Wednesday, and promptly hit the stage to perform live together for the first time. The synthpop band and The Cure frontman teamed up at the UK awards show to play “How Not to Drown” and fellow Screen Violence cut “Asking For A Friend,” as well as The Cure classic “Just Like Heaven.” Watch video of the on-stage super collaboration below. CHVRCHES and Smith made “How Not to Drown” via email correspondence, CHVRCHES singer Lauren Mayberry revealed in an interview before the award show, so the band didn’t actually meet Smith until they began rehearsing for the show. “Shit myself, to be honest,” she said of her first interaction with Smith. After performing the single, which took home the Best Song By A UK...
