In a historic move, outgoing President Joe Biden has commuted the life sentence of Leonard Peltier, an 80-year-old indigenous rights activist whose decades-long imprisonment has become a symbol of systemic injustice. Peltier, a member of the American Indian Movement (AIM), was convicted in connection with the 1975 killing of two FBI agents during a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota—a case that has long been shrouded […]

Slide Away: A Shoegaze Celebration Returns This Spring with NYC and LA Editions Slide Away, the iconic shoegaze festival lovingly dubbed the “festival that celebrates itself,” is making a triumphant return this spring with editions in both New York City and Los Angeles. Curated by the genre-defying band Nothing, this year’s event promises unforgettable nights of immersive soundscapes and legendary reunions, anchored by Whirr’s first live performances in a decade. […]

David Lynch, the cinematic conjurer who made the mundane menacing and the surreal sublime, has left this plane of existence at the age of 79. Lynch didn’t merely live life—he sifted it through coffee grounds, wrapped it in plastic, and set it aflame in the Red Room of our collective unconscious. The cause of his death? Officially unknown, though witnesses claim a man in a black suit whispered something incomprehensible […]

  Sun Ra Arkestra bandleader Marshall Allen, who will turn 101 in May, has announced his first-ever solo album, New Dawn, which will be out February 14 via Mexican Summer / Week-End Records. The album was made with fellow Arkestra member Knoel Scott and producer Jan Lankisch, plus Michael Ray and Cecil Brooks (trumpet), Jamaaladeen Tacuma (bass), Bruce Edwards (guitar), and George Gray (drums). New Dawn 1. Prologue 2. African Sunset 3. New […]

Peter Forrest, who under the stage name P. Fluid became the founding vocalist of NYC rap-rock pioneers 24-7 Spyz, has died. As the New York Daily News reports, Forrest was found beaten to death inside an ambulette he was driving. Police ruled the death a homicide. Forrest was 64.  

Atmospheric rock trio Cloakroom have unveiled the details of their upcoming album, Last Leg of the Human Table, set for release on February 28 via Closed Casket Activities. This marks the band’s second release with the label, following their October 2024 signing and the standalone single, “Unbelonging.” Described as a thematic shift from 2022’s Dissolution Wave—a cosmic space-western centered on an asteroid miner—Last Leg of the Human Table brings the […]