rock

The Smile Tiny Desk Concert

Watch The Smile’s Tiny Desk Concert

Hear the band play three highlights from ‘A Light for Attracting Attention’

Terry Hall

R.I.P. Terry Hall of The Specials

The singer of the legendary ska band has died at 63.

Failure

Watch a performance of “Macaque,” from Failure’s new concert film ‘We Are Hallucinations’

Streaming performance debuts today.

The Smile live album

The Smile announce live album, At Montreux Jazz Festival, July 2022

Plus the full performance will debut on Wednesday via YouTube

Scott Walker The Day the Conducator Died

“The Day the Conducator Died,” Scott Walker’s macabre Christmas carol

A grim holiday tale

Paramore The News

Hear the new Paramore song, “The News”

Hear the second single from ‘This Is Why’

The Flaming Lips tour

The Flaming Lips announce 2023 West Coast tour dates

Plus ‘Yoshimi’ shows in select cities

Sparklehorse

Hear a previously unreleased song from Sparklehorse, “It Will Never Stop”

Hear a lost archival song from the late Mark Linkous

A Drugcember to Remember

The War on Drugs announce A Drugcember to Remember benefit shows in Philadelphia

Proceeds to benefit the Fund for the School District of Philadelphia

Christine McVie

R.I.P. Christine McVie of Fleetwood Mac

The singer/keyboardist has died at 79.

Arc Angles

Hear the epic new post-hardcore anthem from Arc Angles, “Absurdity/Atrocity”

New EP ‘Daisy’ out New Year’s Day

Failure concert stream

Failure announce streaming concert film, We Are Hallucinations

New concert film shot during the band’s last North American tour

Bob Dylan announces 17th Bootleg Series box, Fragments featuring music from the Time Out of Mind sessions

Hear a previously unreleased take of “Love Sick”

The Church

The Church announce new album The Hypnogogue, 2023 tour

The Australian psych/post-punk legends tour the US next year

Blur Wembley 2023

Blur announce first live show in eight years

Support from slowthai, Self Esteem and Jockstrap

Royal Thunder

Hear Royal Thunder’s first new song in five years, “The Knife”

Plus live dates in January

Peter Gabriel tour

Peter Gabriel teases new album ‘i/o’, announces 2023 tour

Gabriel “playing new material from his forthcoming album” on tour

Love and Rockets box set

Love and Rockets reissues, box set announced

Individual album reissues launch in 2023

KCRW snap archive

KCRW releasing archive of ’80s and ’90s recordings of Tom Waits, R.E.M., Nick Cave and more

Plus BENT24 archive streaming Deirdre O’Donoghue’s archive of artist interviews

Sweet Cobra

Hear a new song from Sweet Cobra, “Soft 11,” featuring Matt Talbott of Hum

New album ‘Threes’ out November 11