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Detroit’s Jack White has spent close to three decades treating rock and roll like a contact sport. He locks your phone in a pouch at the door, keeps young bands pressing vinyl through Third Man Records, and lately has had less patience than most of his peers for keeping his politics to himself. Frozen Charlotte, his seventh solo record, picks up where 2024’s surprise-dropped No Name left off: blown-out blues, short fuses, garage rock with the grime left on. The band hasn’t changed, and that’s the point. Patrick Keeler on drums, Dominic Davis on bass, Bobby Emmett on organ. On a Wednesday night at Moody Amphitheater, Austin turned out again for Jack White, and in...

What could bring out a crowd of experienced music lovers on a hot, sticky Tuesday, September 8 night? The progressive mastery of Stick Men. With Tony Levin on Chapman stick, Markus Reuter on touch guitar and Pat Mastelotto on drums, they are one of those three piece bands that somehow create a much larger sound than should be possible. The trio played a well crafted and substantial set supporting their September release of Let’s Thrak Again. This album is a direct descendant of King Crimson’s...

Osees wrap up their Summer tour in Salt Lake City at Metro Music Hall

Dear Diary,
It’s almost 1 a.m. and our ride is coming at 4:30 a.m. My chest is tight from not knowing if I have everything done at home and at work, but it is what it is. When I wake up from my short nap, it’ll be go time to head from Austin to Colorado for King Gizzard’s second Field of Vision Festival in Buena Vista August 14-16. The psych rock, metal, electronic and rock n roll band from Australia has become a touring phenomenon...

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On Friday, August 28, famed singer and performer Erykah Badu and legendary DJ and producer, The Alchemistwill release their highly anticipated collaborative album, currently titled, Sorry, we don’t have an album title yet. The LP marks the first full-length release from Badu in 16 years...

On August 24, Michael “Mike D” Diamond will release his first official solo album, and the first new music—aside from a guest appearance—from a member of the Beastie Boys since the legendary trio’s 2011 release Hot Sauce Comittee Part 2. It’s been 15 years since the group met its untimely end.  The untimely passing of Adam “MCA” Yauch forced the remaining two members into a seemingly permanent musical hiatus...

It’s been an uncomfortable year between perimenopause and aging and three different car wrecks, so forgive me for not keeping up with the setlist for Friday’s bad-ass Black Moth Super Rainbow (BMSR) show at Radio East. I’m thankful that it’s near my house and a delightful place to see an outdoor show, so even if I’m feeling oddly antisocial, I can typically make myself get out to see a show there. Even at my most awkward, I wasn’t missing this BMSR show, and I’m glad I...

Whenever someone goes to see Descendents or ALL, there’s one universal truth: we’re all there, at least in part, to pay homage to Bill Stevenson, a legendary punk rock pioneer. The band played Chicago’s Thalia Hall on Wednesday, August 5...

Wet Leg perform last night at the Ogden Amphitheater for the venue's Twilight Series to a sold out audience

Austin act Killer Kaya "The Princess and Her Tiger" live at Wall of Fog Recording Studios - Austin, Texas

From our columnist in residence at The Cosmic Clash, Robert Dean who explains what Sick of It All and Lou Koller meant to his formative years. This unfortunate premature death hit our man hard...

Mike Patton has spent three decades collecting bands like other people collect vinyl, and every one of them draws the same crowd, showing up less for the setlist than for whatever version of Patton decides to appear. This time it was Nashville’s Tomahawk, and the Monday, July 20 stop at Emo’s Austin sold out fast. After a canceled Sick New World Festival in 2025 for the band’s 25th anniversary, Tomahawk’s reunion after 12 years off took a backseat until now.

On Friday, July 17 as part of the annual festival The Rumble, Turmoil made their way back to Chicago for a triumphant return, playing songs from The Process Of and giving it everything they had in the process. I felt like a kid again, bobbing to the riffs of “Let It Die” while screaming along to the opening salvo of the hardest intro of all time, yelling “what the fuck?” alongside frontman John Gula...

Seattle-by-way-of-Orlando trio Flagman made their way south this summer to deliver their slap-bass mayhem to Austin metal stronghold Lost Well on July 16 – the second stop on their summer tour to spread their self-proclaimed brand of “deep-fried alt-metal.” Formed in 2015 around frontman and bass virtuoso Sam Stewart, the band has rotated through members over the years while keeping the bassist as the focal point of their roadshow. Since the dawn of the doomscroll era, artists and brands alike have been riding the algorithm to rack up streams and hopefully, enough chump change for Denny’s on the road. If you’re a Primus guy or a Mr. Bungle kind of weirdo, this band is for you.

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