Where to Next, Charley Crockett? Charley Crockett – $10 Cowboy Son of Davy/Thirty Tigers There’s always someone who’s shit out of luck in Charley Crockett’s songs, but the desperation is especially palpable on $10 Cowboy, his 13th studio album in nine years.  He populates these songs with the usual assortment of ramblers and gamblers,...

Sam Barber Is in Go-Mode He’s opened shows for Bruce Springsteen and Ed Sheeran, has been compared to one of his heroes, Zach Bryan, and somehow made it out of a town of roughly 200 people to get to this thrilling moment in his career. But burgeoning country artist Sam Barber, who this week will appear at Stagecoach, remains a bit uncomfortable...

The Scene Report: Fartbarf play 4/20 at Alex’s Bar in Long Beach April 20, 2024 Fartbarf (@_fartbarf_) The Scene Local Long Beach favorites Fartbarf, clad in their mutated Neanderthal masks and NASA uniforms, made their iconic entrance at Alex’s Bar through a crowd of 275. Terrible Burger (@terrible_burger)...

Olivia Rodrigo Performs 'Bathwater' With No Doubt At Coachella Summer music festival season rolls on today (April 23) with lineup announcements for San Francisco’s Outside Lands and the inaugural South Star Festival in Huntsville, Al. The former will be headlined by Tyler, the Creator, the Killers and Sturgill Simpson, while the latter...

Blast Rites: December 2020’s Hottest Metal More from Spin: Blast Rites: December 2020’s Hottest Metal Black metal and opera both conjure up certain familiar images. The former, stereotypically, is the province of nihilistic kids in corpse paint, setting fire to a society that’s rejected them. The latter...

KISS Introduces Digital Avatars During Final Show In New York In the new movie Destroy All Neighbors, a mild-mannered prog-rock musician named William (Jonah Ray Rodrigues of Mystery Science Theatre 3000) kills and dismembers his annoying neighbor Vlad (Alex Winters of the Bill & Ted franchise). Murder usually throws a wrench...