Benefits’ first full-length album, “Burnout,” presents the songs in the order they were written, based on events ripped from the headlines from 2020-23. “The words and imagery in these songs really ...

In December 2017, the Cinema Bar in Culver City opened its doors to local trio Cheekface for the group to play its first official show. More than seven years, hundreds of shows and tens of thousands ...

“I was kind of shocked,” Cardinal readily admits from his apartment in Old Strathcona. “It was a big surprise. I was like, ...

This past weekend, The Fastest Kids In School, a local band from the Santa Barbara area, were playing a small outdoor gig. Their set included a cover of Lana Del Rey’s “West Coast.” What they didn’t ...

There are countless bands playing gigs every day over on the west coast, but very few can say that they were joined on stage by a superstar like Lana Del Rey for a surprise duet. Fastest Kids in ...

It was at end of May to the beginning of June 2023 when local musicians Chris Abell, Alex Abend and Blythe Dahlem officially started up the progressive bluegrass outfit The Lowland Ramblers following ...

It might seem an unlikely choice, at least initially, to veer away even temporarily from a band built around two artists who ...

NEW ORLEANS — For band founder and guitarist Jason Kareores, the overnight success of his increasingly popular New Orleans rock group Strange Roux has been more than a decade in the making. Grinding ...

After three years of playing shows around the University of Minnesota campus, the alternative rock band Squirm is releasing their EP “Sun Pillow” on April 5. The band released two singles and an EP, ...

The Cruisers, a popular Oldies band based in Hagerstown, will be inducted into the Maryland Entertainment Hall of Fame on Nov. 23, 2025.