Deafheaven is neither your standard rock nor black metal band. The blackgaze band has been polarizing to many people for various reasons. For example, black metal purists hate how Deafheaven takes ...

Here is your 2025 hard rock + metal album release calendar and all of this week's newest albums! Each week is loaded with new rock and metal releases and keeping track of it all can be pretty ...

The data displayed for this chart goes back to 1994, however we hope to be able to offer deeper historic information at a future point ...

By Eleanor Stanford The 2,000-year-old Torlonia collection of Roman sculptures, now at the Art Institute of Chicago, has the urgency of the greatest contemporary art. By Jason Farago Textile ...

April 5, 2025 • Organizers of Oakland's First Fridays art festival made a flyer promoting the event using AI, and are facing backlash for not using an actual artist. NPR's Scott Simon explains.

This month's batch of staff favorites includes recent releases from Japanese Breakfast, Perfume Genius, and Jason Isbell.

and an art print of Papa and his Nameless Ghouls. Inside the magazine, Tobias tells us that although he created new frontman Papa V Perpetua, he won’t know what his true personality’s like until he ...

Adam Lehrer talks to Phil Todd and Mel Ó Dubhshláine about the release of an expansive anthology charting almost 30 years' work by cult psychedelic band, Ashtray Navigations In this month’s Genre is ...

Wind up the hate machine, all you folks that don’t like fun in your metal — Japanese kawaii-metal band Babymetal announced this morning that they’re releasing a new album on June 13 titled Metal Forth ...