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I am currently listening to Heal The World by the King of Pop, Michael Jackson.

Tobias Francis, leader of the Chicago-via-Portland post-punk band Soft Kill, has reportedly been convicted of domestic abuse. Soft Kill’s Instagram page posted Francis’ mugshot today, along with this caption: “Tobias Channing Francis was convicted this morning of domestic battery.” The website for the Cook County Sheriff’s Department confirms that Francis is in custody and that he had a court date set for today. View the full article

"He was the kind of hub that brought people together because of his passion." The post MIKAEL STANNE Remembers AT THE GATES' TOMAS LINDBERG: "He Was A Gentle, Soft-Spoken Guy, But On Stage He Was An Absolute Beast" appeared first on Metal Injection. View the full article

I agree with you that Spotify has a great user interface that makes playing music fun, easy and exciting. It is a part of using the app that I like a lot.

Paula Kelley is best known as one of the original core members of Drop Nineteens, performing vocals and guitar on their 1992 shoegaze bible Delaware. Not long after that album was released, however, she left the band in order to pursue other projects, eventually releasing the solo albums Nothing/Everything (2001) and The Trouble With Success Or How You Fit Into The World (2003). Twenty years later, Kelley would rejoin Drop Nineteens for their comeback album Hard Light, and now she’s gearing up to release her first solo album in over two decades. Blinking As The Starlight Burns Out arrives in March, and its lead single “Party Line” is out now. View the full article

Brooklyn-based artist Erin Hoagg makes thumping, retro-futuristic music under the name Rare DM, and she became cult-famous with her 2020 track “send nudes.” We’ve posted her recent singles “Skater Hits Me Harder” and “The Ring,” and now she’s back with “325,” an extremely cool ode to an old stick-shift BMW. View the full article

Heavy and unrelenting, taking no prisoners The post WHITECHAPEL Shares Music Video For "Prisoner 666" appeared first on Metal Injection. View the full article

Paramore leader Hayley Williams makes her own music, and sometimes she even plays her own shows. Much more often, though, she loves jumping up onstage at other people’s shows. In the past few months, Williams has released her solo album Ego Death At The Bachelorette Party, and she’s made surprise cameos during during gigs from Finneas, Deftones, Remi Wolf, Turnstile, the Linda Lindas, David Byrne, and H2O. Am I forgetting anyone? I probably am. Anyway, we can now add Rico Nasty to that list. View the full article

Do you ever listen to the film podcast Blank Check With Griffin And David? You really should. It’s consistently one of the best things on the internet. One might even say that it’s consistently one of the only good things on the internet. If you are reading this website, it’s safe to say that you are into deep popular-culture nerdery, and Blank Check does that with movies in a way that I hope we do with music. The current series on the Coen Brothers is a blast. I don’t really like writing about podcasts, and Blank Check doesn’t often has a ton of crossover with our world even though they keep booking my friends as guests, but the Slow Xmas series is a good opportunity to bring it up. View the full article

“We have just really gotten started on the content for that next album. I’m gonna say 2027. We don’t wanna ever be in a rush.” The post KYLE THOMAS Confirms EXHORDER Are Starting Work On A New Album, Potentially Arriving In 2027 appeared first on Metal Injection. View the full article

Is it any song or do you have a song in particular that makes you feel better once you are stressed out?

Are there songs that make you feel this way? Could you share the names of these songs that I could listen to?

Shout out Rupert Giles. That guy really did his best to look out for Buffy and her friends, and he rarely got any credit for it. Instead, he kept getting beat up by vampires and demons and whatnot, and the people he loved kept getting killed. Maybe he died in the end? I can’t remember. I hope not. But now, he’s at least getting some shine, since he’s the namesake for a new song from the young Manchester fuzz-pop band cruush. View the full article

Even most DJs just curate a list of favourite songs from an artist and post it on Spotify, for example. It makes listening to it fun since you are listening to the best songs by the particular artist.

It is definitely a cool song that I can listen to when I am studying. It can be rap, blues or pop but the beats shouldn't be that hard because it would be difficult to concentrate under those circumstances.

It can be frustrating if the music that is being played is your favourite. You would wish that the DJ says nothing and focuses on just playing the music. That is what I like once it is my favourite music that is being played.

The kids are bringing back early-’00s metalcore. I didn’t see this development coming, but it’s been very fun to watch. There’s a whole scene that’s developed around Ephyra, a Connecticut-based label that only came into existence in 2022. Bands like Balmora, Since My Beloved, Azshara, and Blow Up The Outside World are fully steeped in the complicated song-structures and bone-deep guitar-crunches that Poison The Well and Prayer For Cleansing brought into the game many years ago. And then there’s I Promised The World, a Texan band that seems to have beamed in directly from 2003, before any of the band members were actually born. View the full article

As usual: riffs that bruise, hooks that linger, and lyrics that refuse the easy out The post SOEN Streams New Single "Mercenary" From Upcoming Album Reliance appeared first on Metal Injection. View the full article

Remember Sports haven’t released an album since 2021’s Like A Stone, though there was an EP called Leap Day in 2022. Still, when new album The Refrigerator drops next February on the band’s new label home Get Better Records, it will essentially mark the Philly indie mainstays’ first new music in half a decade. That’s reason to rejoice, and new single “Bug” will only increase your anticipation. View the full article

Next Month, the Liverpool Band To Watch King Hannah will release a new limited edition 7″. “This Hotel Room” b/w “Look At Miss Ohio” follows this year’s “Leftovers,” which itself was an outtake from last year’s Big Swimmer. The B-side is a Gillian Welch cover. Today we hear A-side “This Hotel Room,” a smoldering folk-rock slow jam buoyed by powerful harmonies from bandmates Hannah Merrick and Craig Whittle. They sound like a band fully capable of doing justice to a Gillian Welch song. View the full article

With the release of their recent album Big city life, the Copenhagen/Oslo duo Smerz jumped right to the top of a recent class of sharp, exploratory Scandinavian underground pop scientists. Copenhagen in particular has been a hotbed of that stuff lately, and Big city life fits right in alongside recent records from peers like Erika de Casier and ML Buch. But Smerz’s reach extends far beyond Denmark. They’ve attracted the attention of plenty of other artists, including the elusive Sky Ferreira, who recently joined them onstage in LA. Now, Smarz have a new Big city life companion-piece record that doubles as a summit meeting of the duo’s peers. View the full article

In The Alternative Number Ones, I’m reviewing every #1 single in the history of the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks/Alternative Songs, starting with the moment that the chart launched in 1988. This column is a companion piece to The Number Ones, and it’s for members only. Thank you to everyone who’s helping to keep Stereogum afloat. View the full article

“We managed to disagree about everything else, but in music, when we would align, it was powerful” The post BILLY CORGAN Talks D’ARCY WRETZKY’s Role In THE SMASHING PUMPKINS’ OG Era: “Her Contribution Had A Lot To Do With The Success Of The Band” appeared first on Metal Injection. View the full article

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Jordana’s new EP Jordanaland arrives this week. The LA-based artist has shared “Still Do” and “Like That,” and today we get a final preview with the glamorous, breezy earworm “Blouse,” which is not a Clairo cover. View the full article