Danny Garcia, alias Reverend Baron, ducks my initial attempt at neatly labeling his music. “I don’t know what the word is to explain it,” he tells me from a sunny living room in East LA. “It’s not soul, it’s not folk, it’s not rock, but it sort of has some of those things, it’s mellow, […]
A staple of the noughties skateboarding scene, Danny’s skate career continued to flourish in the years that followed. Naturally with age, Danny’s output in the last decade slowed down as he gently segued from professional skateboarder to professional musician via the moniker Reverend Baron. Yet despite the career change, Danny’s continued to showcase his skateboarding […]
“This government hates us and wants us dead,” proclaimed punk icon and Bikini Kill frontwoman Kathleen Hanna: a critical guiding light for Olivia Rodrigo’s feminist consciousness, as well as that of thousands of Daisy Chain attendees on Saturday. Dudes in Saturday’s crowd got a special directive: “You guys gotta talk to your friends [about misogyny],” […]
In the middle of the day, I sat in the grass and watched Bikini Kill invigorate fans across different demographics. The anthemic “We’re Bikini Kill and we want revolution!” rang out, and it seemed possible once more. “I’m not gonna tell you all the bad things! But I am gonna say it makes it hard […]
Feminist-punk trailblazers Bikini Kill, meanwhile, had taken a couple decades off, but came back hard for a reunion tour in 2019. They’ve barely slowed down since. “What a gift Olivia has given all of us to have this festival,” singer Kathleen Hanna told the crowd. When Hanna told a story about a 40-year-old man creeping on […]
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard brought out surprise guest Max Weinberg during their Saturday show in Queens, just a week after the E Street Band drummer’s son Jay joined the band onstage. “In continuing with the tradition that we started over the last year or so, where we get our friend Jay Weinberg to come out and […]
Welcome to New Music Friday, NPR Music’s podcast dedicated to sharing the best albums out each week. We listen to dozens of new releases in advance, identify the ones we think you need to hear, and highlight our favorite five in a brisk mix of clips, context and commentary.
Alien Metal is arguably the biggest swing in a catalog full of them, as the sextet best known for wild, garage-meets-psych-rock ditched its guitars in favor of a hulking Eurorack, a type of modular synthesizer developed in the ’90s that all of its members could play simultaneously. The band began trotting the rig out for “rave shows” […]
Right now, the ultra-prolific Australian psych-rock crew King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard are on their old-school techno shit. After playing a series of “rave” shows last year, the band fell in love with the modular Eurorack synth assemblage that they nicknamed Nathan. Using that contraption, they recorded their beautifully titled Alien Metal, album number 28 […]
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The entire vibe around Sunday was fueled by female empowerment thanks to riot grrrl godmothers Bikini Kill. Throngs of young girls in Day-Glo punk garb and face paint mashed against the barricade to see the roots of revolutionary aggression come crashing through the chords of classics like “Carnival,” “Alien She” and, of course, “Rebel Girl.” […]
Regardless of your feelings on Olivia Rodrigo, we can all agree it’s a net positive that more people know what a “Bikini Kill” is because of her. A whole new generation of riot grrrls will be born when Kathleen Hanna takes the stage at Rodrigo’s new charity music festival, Daisy Chain Fields—and Bikini Kill ticket prices will […]
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard have put a name and a face to their long-awaited next foray into electronic music, Alien Metal, which will be released at some point this summer on the Australian band’s p(doom) label. The first taste of the project is “Level 5,” which is out now in tandem with a video directed […]
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard announced Wednesday (July 8) that their next album is coming soon, and that it will be a hard electronic project. Called Alien Metal, the project is set for release later this summer on the band’s own p(doom) Records and will be the Australian act’s 28th studio LP. The news comes in […]
Le Tigre started with a radical approach: Instead of writing about the “bad stuff,” Johanna Fateman suggested to her new bandmate, Kathleen Hanna, when the two got together in 1998, “We should write about the good stuff.” Instead of singing about staring into the abyss as Hanna had in Bikini Kill, they wrote songs about […]
Los Angeles punk outfit Memo PST is previewing its about-to-be-released album Eternal Actors with a black-and-white video for its song “Blown Away,” which highlights the band’s hard-charging sound. Eternal Actors is out Friday (May 1) on In the Red and finds vocalist Chris Shaw (Ex-Cult, Vile Nation), guitarist Orville Neeley (Bad Sports, OBN IIIs), bassist Emmanuel Koulouris and […]
Ahead of a packed run of UK shows, the slacker icon talks to NME about End Of The Road, new talent, surviving hype, hosting his first Mac’s Record Label EOTR showcase, keeping things intimate, and his next move
Riot grrrl legends Bikini Kill have announced a 2026 US fall tour. The trek kicks off on September 6th in Portland, with stops in Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston, and more before wrapping up in Brooklyn on September 25th. See the full schedule below.
Tim Presley is back with his first White Fence album in six years. It’s titled Orange and will be out April 24 via Drag City. He made it with friend and collaborator Ty Segall at his Harmonizer II studio in Los Angeles. Ty plays drums on the album, as does Dylan Hadley (Cate Le Bon’s band), Alice Sandahl (ex-La Luz) plays keyboards, […]
Tim Presley has announced the first new White Fence album since 2019’s I Have to Feed Larry’s Hawk. Produced by Ty Segall, Orange arrives April 24 via Drag City. Star of Julia Ducournau’s Titane—and Presley’s wife—Agathe Rousselle helmed the music video for lead single “Your Eyes.” Watch it below. In press materials, Presley said “Your Eyes” is about “Love/loss, addiction/rehabilitation, and a good […]
Dylan Bird is joined by Ty Segall ahead of his upcoming Australian tour to chat about his memories in the country, the evolution of his voice and sound, the process of making his latest album Possession and the role of music during social and political unrest.
After reuniting in 2019, Bikini Kill have continued to tour, but they were quiet for much of 2025. That’ll change this year though, as they’ve announced new shows following their headlining set at Oakland’s Mosswood Meltdown. They’ll be on the road in the US in September, and you can see all dates below. The NYC shows wrap up the […]
Bikini Kill are hitting the road again. Kathleen Hanna and her band, who’ve toured consistently since reuniting in 2017, will play shows across the United States in September. They’re also set to headline Oakland’s Mosswood Meltdown on July 19. Check out all of Bikini Kill’s 2026 dates below. 2019 saw Bikini Kill play their first full shows together since 1997. In 2024, […]
The unflappable musician discusses returning to his calling of building songs from scratch after becoming preoccupied with other DIY projects in the garage and at home. Mac DeMarco is a true follower of the DIY path. It’s where he’s always felt at home, making his songs of woozy, deeply felt, gently melodic indie rock, telling personal […]
Written and recorded over the course of a month in November 2024 at his Los Angeles home, Guitar leaves the edges raw. There’s tape hiss lingering in the background, an intentional looseness, and a voice that slides effortlessly into an ethereal falsetto. “I didn’t overthink too much about what I’m doing. It felt like magic, and I […]
After the “intermission”, King Gizz and the orchestra behind them twinkled into the full ten minutes of fan favourite, ‘The River’, followed by another ten-minute epic ‘Crumbling Castle’, opening up the mosh pits and sending the audience swirling. At least two dozen people under the Hall’s dome were carried over the heads of fellow onlookers […]
Ezra Furman today shares new single titled “One Hand Free”. The track was recorded during the studio sessions for Goodbye Small Head, her LP released earlier this year via Bella Union. “One Hand Free” comes accompanied by a video shot by JJ Gonson featuring Ezra accompanied by an assortment of birds, lizards and myriad other species. […]
For how unabashedly bizarre his music can be, Ty Segall is an affable guy. Settled on an outdoor couch, sipping from a Pacific Coast Highway mug, his measured cadence makes a real case for oceanside life’s tranquilizing effect. At times, that breezy tone is tough to square with his reputation for grinding rock’s cutting edge […]
In a press release, Ezra Furman described her new album, Goodbye Small Head, as “twelve variations on the experience of completely losing control.” Asked in a late June interview if this was a new idea for her, and if she was traditionally someone who needed to have a firm grasp of the steering wheel, she paused. […]
On stage, DeMarco projected a charismatic, likable and humorous persona that went beyond his simple attire of a baseball cap and a T-shirt. He mostly roamed around holding a microphone as his excellent touring band played around him, although he did put on a guitar for a few numbers. DeMarco was also entetaining with his […]
