Long-running emo revival leader Evan Weiss has announced his first Into It. Over It. album since 2016's great Standards. It's called Figure and it comes out September 18 via Triple Crown (pre-order). Evan says, "It’s about trying to make peace… Read More

The Flaming Lips have shared a third track from their upcoming 16th album, American Head. Like "Flowers of Neptune 6" and "My Religion is You," "Dinosaurs on the Mountain" has strong Soft Bulletin / Yoshimi vibes, in that mellow psych… Read More

The Flaming Lips have announced a followup to last year's Kings' Mouth (which also follows their collab LP with Deap Vally and The Soft Bulletin Live at Red Rocks). It's called American Head and it comes out September 11 via… Read More

Pallbearer have officially announced their long-discussed, highly anticipated fourth album, Forgotten Days, which was produced by Randall Dunn and is due October 23 via Nuclear Blast. The title track is out now, along with a Ben Meredith-directed video, and it's… Read More

Sacha Baron Cohen is clearly back in action. Not even a month after pranking an alt-right militia rally into doing a racist sing-along, with the lyrics "Obama, what we gonna do? / Inject him with the Wuhan flu / Hillary… Read More

System of a Down drummer John Dolmayan is on his soapbox again, airing his right wing political views on social media as he so often has before. Spurring his ire this time is a tragic story out of Atlanta, where… Read More

The UK is getting what's being billed as its "first dedicated socially distanced music venue" this summer. Virgin Money Unity Arena is scheduled to open in Gosforth Park, Newcastle, with shows currently set for August and September. Their initial schedule… Read More

Congratulations on making it another week through 2020. As you may know, Notable Releases is about this week's new albums, but before I get to that, here's some stuff we ran on BV this week about older music to occupy… Read More

Sohrab Habibion has been a staple of post-hardcore, punk, and indie rock for over 30 years, having fronted the classic '80s/'90s band Edsel before joining Drive Like Jehu/Hot Snakes' Rick Froberg in Obits and then forming his current band SAVAK,… Read More

Like Avril Lavigne, Carly Rae Jepsen and Canada’s Drag Race contestant Jimbo, Lights Poxleitner-Bokan – or Lights, for short – is Canadian excellence. Haven’t pensively stared out the window of a moving train on a chilly winter day while listening… Read More