Alt-rock singer-songwriter Whitney Tai may have just released an unexpected cover of the theme song to That Thing You Do!, but her most recent full work, the epic concept album...

Veteran musical comic (or is it comical musician?) Kyle Gass is reclining on a velour ‘70s sofa at Licorice Pizza Records, getting ready for his eponymous band’s very first in-store concert,...

In May 1980, legendary Minneapolitan music savant Peter Jesperson discovered the Replacements and went on to become their A&R rep, manager, producer, mentor, self-described “babysitter,” and the man sometimes described...

Perhaps never in the history of Licorice Pizza Records events has a band made as grand an entrance as Italodisco bon vivants the Dolcevita Brothers. To quote the jet-setting bio...

Rocker Michele Bettencourt may be the subject of the documentary Beautiful Lie, but the fact that her more-fascinating-than-fiction story hasn’t yet been adapted for a biopic — or better yet,...

Almost 15 years ago, guitarist/vocalist Joshua and drummer David De Leon started playing Beatles covers in their Glendale family garage. Then the Guitar Hero-raised brothers made their unofficial public musical...

In 2025, roots-rock road warriors American Mile played at least 200 shows. But that wasn’t the case, obviously, five years ago, when the COVID-19 pandemic wiped everyone’s calendars and canceled...

In 2003, Florida pop-punk band Yellowcard burst onto the KROQ-meets-TRL mainstream with their major-label debut album and its teenage-dreaming breakout single, “Ocean Avenue.” But surprisingly, it took another 22 years...

The Neighbourhood announced this month that they’ll be releasing their first album since 2020, Ultrasound — a record that controversially reunites them with drummer Brandon Fried, who was fired from...

The third LP by Grandson, aka alt/rap/rock musician and activist Jordan Benjamin, is titled Inertia, but his career has been anything but inert. He has always crusaded for social justice,...