Alternative Rock
Noel Gallagher Shares New Single “Pretty Boy” Featuring Johnny Marr: Stream
Noel Gallagher returns today with a new song called “Pretty Boy,” the lead single from his untitled forthcoming album with his High Flying Birds. It features ex-Smiths member Johnny Marr on guitar. As Oasis’ former chief songwriter, Gallagher is already known for writing massive earworm melodies, and there’s no shortage of those on “Pretty Boy.” With Marr’s immediately-recognizable guitar jangle backing him, Gallagher seems to wrestle with his own identity and sense of self: “Can you delete my number?/ I wanna get me free/ I wanna change my star sign/ Because it don’t suit me,” he sings in the final verse. “For this new record it was the first thing I wrote, the first thing I demoed and the first thing I finished, so it’s only right that it’s the first thing people get to hear,” Gallagher ...
Morrissey Announces New Album Bonfire of Teenagers
Morrissey has announced his new solo album, Bonfire of Teenagers, which will be released in February 2023. Bonfire of Teenagers was recorded in Los Angeles with producer Andrew Watt. Across the album’s 11 tracks, Morrissey is joined by several big-name collaborators, including Miley Cyrus, Iggy Pop, Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Chad Smith and Flea, Josh Klinghoffer, and Jesse Tobias. Below, you can watch fan-captured of Morrissey performing the album’s title track during a recent concert. Advertisement Related Video Capitol Records will release Bonfire of Teenagers worldwide — except in the UK, where the singer does not currently have a label deal. Additionally, Capitol has licensed the rights to reissue several of Morrissey’s previous albums, including Southpaw Grammar, You Are The Quarry,...
How to Get Tickets to Pulp’s 2023 Reunion Tour
Britpop legends Pulp are reuniting in 2023 to celebrate the 25th anniversary of their album This Is Hardcore. Dubbed the “This Is What We Do for an Encore Tour,” Jarvis Cocker and company have laid out a run of concerts in their native UK between the months of May and July. Read on to learn how to get tickets to their reunion tour. What Is Pulp’s Reunion Tour? “This Is What We Do for an Encore” is a reference to the title track to This Is Hardcore. In a statement, the band explained, “An encore happens when the crowd makes enough noise to bring the band back to the stage. “So… We are playing in the UK and Ireland in 2023. Therefore… Come along and make some noise. See you there.” The 2023 tour begins in May with shows in Bridlington and Warrington, UK. From there, Pulp ...
BTS’ Jin Performs “The Astronaut” with Coldplay in Buenos Aires: Watch
Jin of BTS recently shared “The Astronaut,” his debut solo single that he co-wrote with Coldplay, and now, the artists have teamed up to perform the song live for the first time. Watch the clip below. Coldplay are in the midst of their “Music of the Spheres World Tour,” and Jin joined them on stage in Buenos Aires on Friday, October 28th to run through “The Astronaut.” In the professionally shot live video (directed by Paul Dugdale), fireworks go off above the stadium as the artists perform the soft ballad. “There is no one else/ I feel this way I’ve never felt,” Jin and Chris Martin sing. Jin is the second member of BTS, following j-hope, to strike out on their own during the boy band’s “second chapter.” Jin called “The Astronaut” “a gift for the fans” during the group’s ti...
Danny Elfman Celebrates His Decades-Long Career at Marathon Hollywood Bowl Show: Video + Setlist
This is Halloween, of course, but Danny Elfman’s October 28th show at the Hollywood Bowl was more than just a Nightmare Before Christmas theme party. During a whopping 32-song set, the artist celebrated all the phases of his career, from his Oingo Boingo days to his film compositions and his latest solo album, Big Mess. Elfman played a ton of Oingo Boingo songs — “Insects,” “Just Another Day,” and “Grey Matter” among them — for his OG fans, while also throwing in enough film suites (Spider-Man, Batman, Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands) to remind you that he’s had a hand in more iconic soundtracks than you may remember. Backed by both a regular rock band and an orchestra, a choir joined Elfman for classics like “This Is Halloween,” effortlessly running through all the voices of the gho...
Danny Elfman Says “Leave Your Kids at Home” for His Halloween Hollywood Bowl Shows
Sure, Danny Elfman has soundtracked a lot of family-friendly movies in his day, but that doesn’t necessarily means he wants your kids to come to his performances. For his Halloween gigs at Los Angeles’ Hollywood Bowl on October 28th and 29th, the prolific composer has one request: Please, leave your kids at home. Elfman recently told Variety that, while his Bowl performances will pull heavily from his epic Coachella set earlier this year, he plans on dedicating more of the set time to his 2021 solo album Big Mess — which is decidedly not G-rated. “I just keep saying over and over, leave your kids home. This is not a kids’ show and this isn’t a family show,” Elfman clarified. “This isn’t The Nightmare Before Christmas. The Coachella show had a bit of Nightmare Before Christma...
MGMT Plot Release of Live Album 11-11-11, 11 Years Later
On November 11th, 2011, MGMT performed an original 45-minute piece at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York to mark the opening of an exhibit celebrating the artist Maurizio Cattelan. Now, the band will finally release that performance as a live album, appropriately titled 11-11-11. The project, of course, arrives on 11-11-22. MGMT’s Andrew VanWyngarden and Ben Goldwasser were commissioned to write music in response to the 2011 Cattelan display, which suspended 130 pieces of art from varying heights. “We’re creating a musical experience that works for the building and for the construction and presentation of the Cattelan exhibit,” the duo said at the time. “It’s an art exhibit done in a completely original way, so it deserves music which is completely original.” After debu...
Viagra Boys Announce 2023 North American Tour Dates
Viagra Boys have announced a new run of 2023 tour dates in support of their latest album Cave World. The North American trek kicks off February 13th and wraps up in March. Dubbed the “Shrimp City Beach 1993 Reunion Tour” — a nod to Cave World lead single “Ain’t No Thief” — Viagra Boys’ 2023 tour begins at the 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C. and hits Philadelphia’s Union Transfer, Elsewhere in Brooklyn, Majestic in Detroit, and more before concluding at The Crocodile in Seattle on March 4th. General ticket sales begin Friday, October 28th at 10:00 a.m. ET via Ticketmaster, while fans who sign up for the Shrimptech Mailer can grab pre-sale tickets now. See their full schedule — including the remaining Europe shows they previously announced — below. Advertisement Related Video Re...
Innings Festival 2023: Green Day and Eddie Vedder to Headline Weekend of Music and Baseball
Green Day and Eddie Vedder are set to headline the fifth annual Innings Festival, a two-day music and baseball event in Tempe, Arizona that’s going down February 25th and 26th, 2023. Weezer, Marcus Mumford, The Head and the Heart, The Offspring, The Black Crowes, and Mt. Joy are just a few more of the 18 artists who will also come to the Tempe Beach and Tempe Arts Park for Innings 2023. As for the baseball, you can expect to catch appearances from Major League greats including Randy Johnson, Jake Peavy, Dontrelle Willis, Grady Sizemore, and many more. Beyond that, attendees can enjoy curated food vendors as well as an All-Star Baseball Jam, a performance from The Bronson Arroyo Band and the return of the talk show Off the Mound with Ryan Dempster, featuring artists and MLB player...
Unknown Mortal Orchestra Announce 2023 Tour Dates, Share “I Killed Captain Cook”: Stream
Unknown Mortal Orchestra return today with the new single “I Killed Captain Cook” and its accompanying music video. Additionally, the psych-rock project led by Ruban Nielson has unveiled North American and UK tour dates for 2023, their first outing in four years. When he was a child, Nielson’s mother would tell him the story of Captain James Cook, the English explorer known for colonizing Polynesia and attempting to kidnap Hawaiian chief Kalaniʻōpuʻu before ultimately meeting his demise in Hawaii. The aptly-titled “I Killed Captain Cook” is told from the perspective of the Hawaiian who rightfully killed Cook in defense of their homeland: “One of the many lies that they told/ Was that they were divine and fair/ With Cook’s blood on my hand/ The spell was broken there,” goes the final v...
Red Hot Chili Peppers Are First Rock Band in 17 Years to Top Album Sales Chart Twice in One Year
Red Hot Chili Peppers have scored their second No. 1 album on the Billboard Top Album Sales chart in 2022 with Return of the Dream Canteen. With 63,000 equivalent album units earned, the LP also landed at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 behind Lil Baby’s debuting It’s Only Me and Bad Bunny’s juggernaut Un Verano Sin Ti. Back in April, Chili Peppers reunited with longtime guitarist John Frusciante (and producer Rick Rubin) for Unlimited Love. It debuted atop the Billboard 200 and became the band’s first No. 1 album since 2006’s Stadium Arcadium, which had been Frusciante’s most recent LP with the Chili Peppers before coming back into the fold. Unlimited Love also became the best-selling rock album since Paul McCartney’s McCartney III in January 2021 with 97,500...
Win Rome and Duddy Tickets, Good Times CBD Products, and a T-Shirt
“I gotta find this place/ Gotta get away,” sing Rome and Duddy on their new collaborative single, “Cannabis Tree.” Now, to celebrate the track’s official release, Sublime with Rome’s Rome Ramirez and Dirty Heads’ Duddy B are helping you find your place and get away to their upcoming concerts with this exclusive giveaway. The guys are giving away five (5) pairs of tickets to any of their upcoming “Winter Moon Tour” shows — winners’ choice! The trek starts November 25th in Nashville and runs through December 17th in Tempe, with stops in Atlanta, Orlando, Denver, Wichita, San Diego, Tucson, and more along the way. You can find the complete itinerary ahead and grab tickets to the tour here, or enter below to win yourself two free passes and a dope “Cannabis Tree” prize pack! In ...
