
Few bands from the emo, pop punk, and post-hardcore boom of the 2000s are more beloved or more enduring than Taking Back Sunday, whose first three LPs- 2002’s Tell All Your Friends, 2004’s Where You Want to Be, and 2006’s Louder Now– are all stone-cold classics of that era, and have undoubtedly become nostalgic millennial touchstones in the…

Singer, songwriter, producer, and performance artist Peaches exploded to fame with her transgressive, sex-positive, and attention-grabbing now-classic debut album, The Teaches of Peaches, in 2000, having recently relocated from her native Toronto to Berlin (where she’s largely remained since), after honing her sound in the late ’90s, and becoming a defining artist of the…

Ebba Tove Elsa Nilsson, better known by her stage name Tove Lo, grew up in the suburbs of Stockholm, Sweden, drawn to music from a young age. Though her earliest influences were more grunge and rock, and she even formed a math rock band after attending a prestigious arts high school, Lo’s transition to…

It’s been more than five years since Memphis-born, formerly Nashville-based indie singer-songwriter Julien Baker released her third solo album, Little Oblivions. She’s certainly been busy in the interim, though, first reuniting with her supergroup boygenius for 2023 debut full-length The Record, which attracted a massive wave of new attention and fans, sent the group…
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Toronto-bred, Los Angeles-based artist Jutes first began cultivating his genre-bending fusion of metal, alternative, R&B, pop punk, and hip hop in the mid-2010s (more hip-hop-heavy to start, and more rock infused as the years have passed), eventually inking major label deal in 2020, and attracting buzz through a series of EPs and mixtapes. Traction…
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Formed initially as high schoolers in Los Angeles, indie pop group Atta Boy released their first album, Out of Sorts, after their first year of college in 2012, not expecting it to reach many people outside of their immediate friends and family. To their surprise, though, the project managed to grow and find a…
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Formed a decade ago in Melbourne, Australia, pub rock and punk outfit Amyl and the Sniffers have really exploded to stardom in recent years, lauded for their wild, ferocious live show, and hailed as one of the most exciting new fixtures of the punk scene. Named for the recreational drug amyl nitrite (which Aussies…

For those dialed in in the early 2010s, there’s no doubt that Chicago contemporary independent hip hop trailblazer Chance the Rapper‘s masterful second mixtape, 2013’s Acid Rap, was his critical breakout and broader introduction to the music world at large. But for the general public, equally incredible, platinum-certified, Grammy-winning follow-up, Coloring Book, in 2016,…
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Foo Fightersw/ Queens of the Stone Age, Mannequin PussyNissan Stadium; Nashville, TNAugust 15, 2026 Review by Philip Obenschain. Photos by Mary-Beth Blankenship. When alt rock legends Foo Fighters first announced their return to Nashville, on the Take Cover Tour at Nissan Stadium with Queens of the Stone Age and Mannequin Pussy, I knew it…
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My Chemical Romancew/ Pierce the VeilNissan Stadium; Nashville, TNAugust 13, 2026 Review by Philip Obenschain. Photos by Bryce Hall, courtesy of the artist. In 2006, New Jersey alt rock, emo, pop punk, and post-hardcore outfit My Chemical Romance– who’d exploded to fame just a couple of years earlier with their breakout sophomore LP Three…