Modest Mouse launching Psychic Salamander Festival

Modest Mouse launching Psychic Salamander Festival

Tim Mosenfelder/Getty ImagesModest Mouse is launching their own festival.The inaugural Psychic Salamander Festival takes place Sept. 13-14 at Remlinger Farms in the "Float On" outfit's home state of Washington. Along with two headlining sets from Modest Mouse themselves, the bill includes The Flaming Lips, Courtney Barnett and Sleater-Kinney, among others.Members of Modest Mouse's Ice Cream Party fan club will have access to a presale beginning April 29 at 10 a.m. PT. Tickets go on sale to the general public on May […]

April 24, 2025

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Kirk Hammett says ‘heck, yeah!’ to idea of Metallica playing Las Vegas Sphere

ABC/Randy HolmesKirk Hammett is down to rock the Sphere.The Metallica guitarist tells The Hollywood Reporter that he'd be interested in the metal legends headlining the high-tech Las Vegas venue."Oh, heck, yeah!" Hammett says. "That's a great example of how venues are changing. That's using modern technology to the fullest, to really up the levels of production and entertainment, connected to AI and making it a crazy experience."The Sphere, which opened in 2023, boasts a state-of-the-art 160,000-square-foot wraparound LED screen. So far, Sphere […]

April 24, 2025

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Maggie Rogers covers Broken Social Scene’s ‘Anthems for a Seventeen Year-Old Girl’ with Sylvan Esso

Arts & CraftsMaggie Rogers has teamed up with Sylvan Esso to put a new spin on Broken Social Scene's 2000s indie classic "Anthems of a Seventeen Year-Old Girl."The cover was recorded for an upcoming tribute to the 2002 BSS album, You Forget It in People, due out June 6."'Anthems' is one of those songs that fundamentally changed my life," Rogers says. "There's something about the lyrical repetition that functions as a sort of mantra within the song and it made me understand […]

April 24, 2025

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Red Hot Chili Peppers gig turned into ’Love, Death + Robots’ episode for upcoming fourth season

Courtesy of NetflixRed Hot Chili Peppers are featured in the upcoming fourth season of Netflix's animated anthology series, Love, Death + Robots.The episode titled "Can't Stop," directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker David Fincher, recreates RHCP's famed 2003 gig at Slane Castle in Ireland with Anthony Kiedis, Flea, Chad Smith and John Frusciante as string-puppets.All four band members lend their voices to the episode, which premieres May 15 alongside the rest of Love, Death + Robots season 4.You can catch a glimpse of "Can't Stop" in the […]

April 24, 2025

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Arcade Fire performing on May episode of ‘SNL’

NBCUniversalArcade Fire is returning to Saturday Night Live.The "Wake Up" outfit will be the show's musical guest for the sixth time — seventh if you count their performance alongside Mick Jagger in 2012 — on May 10. The White Lotus actor Walton Goggins will host.Arcade Fire also performed on SNL50: The Homecoming Concert in February alongside David Byrne and St. Vincent.On May 9, the day before the episode, Arcade Fire will drop their new album, Pink Elephant. The single "Year of the Snake" is out […]

April 24, 2025

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Korn’s Jonathan Davis to explore haunted hotel on upcoming ’Ghost Adventures’ episode

Steve Jennings/Getty ImagesKorn frontman Jonathan Davis will be a guest on an upcoming episode of the investigative paranormal series Ghost Adventures.The "Freak on a Leash" rocker will join a crew of ghost hunters in exploring the supposedly haunted Glen Tavern Inn in Santa Paula, California.The episode premieres April 20 at 10 p.m. ET on the Discovery Channel.We're going to consider Davis' Ghost Adventures appearance a sequel to the "Korn's Groovy Pirate Ghost Mystery" South Park episode.Copyright © 2025, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.

April 24, 2025

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‘I quit’: HAIM announces new album title & release date

Columbia Records; Art By Paul Thomas AndersonHAIM time is officially approaching.During their show in Los Angeles Wednesday, the sister trio revealed that their next album is called I quit and will drop June 20. You can watch video of the announcement via HAIM's Instagram.I Quit is the follow-up to 2020's Women in Music Pt. III. It includes the previously released singles "Relationships" and "Everybody's trying to figure me out." A third cut, "Down to be wrong," is out now.HAIM will play LA again Thursday. They perform […]

April 24, 2025

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Ghost to livestream midnight ‘Skeletá’ release events

Loma Vista RecordingsThe new Ghost album Skeletá drops Friday, and the Swedish rockers are celebrating the release's in-store midnight launch events across the globe. If you don't live near a participating location, you can still join in on the fun online.Ghost has announced a livestream of the midnight events, dubbed Skeletá Rockin Eve. Starting Thursday at 11 p.m. Eastern European Summer Time, which is 4 p.m. ET, you can tune in to watch Ghost fans around the world pick up their […]

April 24, 2025

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The All-American Rejects preview long-awaited album with new song, ‘Sandbox’

Slick ShoesThe All-American Rejects have premiered a new song called "Sandbox," the first single off the band's long-awaited fifth album.You can listen to "Sandbox" now via digital outlets. Its accompanying video, which features the AAR members being murdered by evil children's show TV puppets, is on YouTube.The most recent Rejects album is 2012's Kids in the Street. Since then, the "Gives You Hell" outfit has put out a number of one-off singles and EPs, including a cover of Harvey Danger's "Flagpole […]

April 24, 2025

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