Ryan Leas

SASAMI is back with a new version of a ‘Squeeze’ track.

‘Sometimes, Forever’ is out 6/24.

Consequence is back with a new single from a forthcoming album.

Half Waif is back with an EP reimagining some recent songs.

Everyone was coming back from the dead. In the first half of the ’10s, Slowdive joined a crowd of long-departed bands deciding to give it another go. Many of these were satisfied to tour the festival circuit, indulge fans’ nostalgia for a little victory lap and a solid paycheck, then return to the ether. Some dared to make new music, and some succeeded, though far more of them returned with albums that were inevitably pale echoes of past glories. In 2017, Slowdive did the unthinkable. They relea…

Amidst what might be their final voyage, Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band made a stop back home in New Jersey.

It was a self-coronation. In hindsight, the letters of AM loomed large over a new era for Arctic Monkeys. A pseudo-self-titled fifth album, shortened from quirky moniker to sophisticated initials. The name was left open-ended, so that it could mean a few things. In a 2013 conversation with Interview, Alex Turner allowed that the journalist’s assertions — it could be radio frequency, the verb “am,” or the time of day — could all be true. But however they meant it or whatever people said they were…

Our review of the band’s surprise-released second album of 2023.

Ever since 2002, Pop Montréal has taken over venues across town one week a year for a far-ranging festival that balances established names and emerging acts. With some of the locals describing this year as feeling like the first “true” iteration of the festival since COVID, the excitement feels particularly palpable; there’s an electricity in the air while you drop in on wildly different artists just a few blocks away from each other.

For over 20 years, Pop Montréal has taken over venues across the city for a festival that balances beloved local acts with international names, all fueled by a spirit of discovery. Before my first time here, I thought of it as more of a SXSW-style affair, with its gigantic lineup spread out over town. But now that we’ve come to the end of Pop Montréal 2023, it reminds me more of events like Iceland Airwaves. When people talk about Montréal’s European flair, they aren’t lying, and the festival’s…