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Much like their 1990s grunge and alt-rock contemporaries in America, Canada’s Our Lady Peace were writing and recording murky, sorrowful songs about youthful frustration and adult rage, love lost and societal alienation. But there was always an underlying theme of hope throughout the larger message. Thirty-plus years since their debut album, 1994’s Naveed, the band is soldiering on, and celebrating their three-decade longevity. On this particular night, it’s onstage at Plaza Live in Orlando, Florida, where Our Lady Peace are playing a sold-out show some 1,300 miles from their hometown of Toronto. “I don’t think music is defined in years…

The Wow Signalthe UK neo-prog band's latest, is a predictably heavy lift The 10th Muse album takes its name from the Wow! Signal, an unexplained radio transmission detected by a mind-blown astronomer in 1977 that's been held up as a possible example of extraterrestrial communication. The amount of pomp and pump Muse can slam into one song can have a certain wow-factor; tracks like “Uprising” and “Supermassive Black Hole” made them leaders in fist-pumping arena rock. But as is often the case with this ostentatiously bombastic UK band, their music won't blow your mind so much as beat it into…

Alan Jackson went way down yonder on the Chattahoochee for the last time on Saturday night, performing his signature hit near the end point of his goodbye show at Nashville's Nissan Stadium. The event, which also featured George Strait, Luke Bryan, Eric Church, Luke Combs, Miranda Lambert, Jon Pardi, Carrie Underwood, Keith Urban, Riley Green, Cody Johnson, Lee Ann Womack, and more, was filmed for a concert special to air on NBC marking Jackson's permanent retirement from touring. Last year, Jackson announced “One More for the Road – The Finale” after several years of openly discussing his plans to leave…

Inside Alligator Alcatraz — the controversial, recently shuttered immigration detention camp in Everglades — there was a small chain-link cage roughly the size of a coffin in the middle of the rec yard, underneath the baking Florida sun. The guards called it “the box.” Detainees would be placed inside at any time of day, fed their meals through the bars — turkey sandwiches, a granola bar, and little else. The mosquitoes would eat them alive. “If you're out there in the box, then you're fucked,” one guard said. The guard's quote, and the anecdotes and details in the paragraph above,…

Ten years are just a habit for Klimt 1918. Since 2016, when “Sentimentale Jugend” closed an eight-year chapter from the previous “Just In Case We'll Never Meet Again”, silence has become a second skin for them. Not the silence of abandonment, but that of sedimentation: like photographs left to settle in the attic, like summer skies observed for too long from a foggy window. “Àmor” therefore arrives not as a festive return, but as a slow, almost inevitable resurfacing. The title is a game of mirrors: read backwards, it reveals Rome, the city where the band has always lived and…

Having just completed ten years of their career, Fires In The Distance have just released “Circadian Promises”, their best album, which completes the codification of one of the most impactful sounds and imagery of today's metal scene. The Connecticut band is certainly part of the thick death doom crowd, but thanks to an obsessive attention to sound and marked gothic influences, at the same time it distances itself from it, ending up exerting a strong fascination on other types of listeners too. Since the opening entrusted to “Of Radiance And Levitatiobn”, the perennial game between a desperate register growl and…

Gracie Abrams has addressed the “nepo baby” discourse that’s followed her throughout her pop career. The singer and daughter of director JJ Abrams is due to release her third studio album, ‘Daughter From Hell‘, on July 17 via Interscope (visit here to pre-order). So far, she’s previewed the record with the enchanting single ‘Hit The Wall‘. Ahead of the album’s release, she appeared on the New York Times‘ PopCast, where she was asked about how having a famous parent has impacted her career. “The nepo stuff is obviously in the discourse appropriately,” she said. “I think about the privilege there, and it’s…

Anthony knows the feeling of grief well. Before the pandemic, his mother, father, and brother died within a few years of one another. When the 55-year-old lab technician from the Northeast received news in October 2024 that his cousin suffered a fatal heart attack, he was devastated.  “Everyone passed away around me,” Anthony says. “It was really depressing.” Anthony looked up to his cousin, who was 13 years older than him. Every month, he looked forward to their afternoon hangouts, where they would watch Bob Ross videos, paint, and drink brandy and beer. He wished there was a way he…

Italo Sanchez was in a bad way in the spring of 2015. He’d been in and out of lockup, first in juvie, then prison, since the age of 13. Now, at 35, he’d been stuck in solitary for the best part of eight years. Then, out of nowhere, came a break in the clouds: a fellow inmate named Sandy sailed him a kite (a prison note sent by paper plane) about a spiritual retreat that weekend in the prison chapel. The gathering would be more about healing the past than chanting hymns and Hail Marys, said Sandy. Somehow, Sanchez talked…

If once we talked exclusively about dream-pop and shoegaze, today with a little imagination we can also introduce some new and fitting associations, because gloomgaze is really the most appropriate term to describe the music of these Chainlacing. Rick Martel and Lauren Crosser, bouncing between Massachusetts and New Hampshire, gave life to the project only recently, reaching this debut (they were discovered by These Hands Melt, label Italian very active in the circuit underground international) after a series of qualitatively impeccable singles. The album, to tell the truth, starts with the rough post-punk of “Petty Pleas”, and then immediately sinks…