It's time for 2026 California to wake up to the fact that Sib, Joe Sib, is a contender for the Best of Us Award. It's wildly rare to have an artist like Sib who crosses over from being in the early punk rock scene to co-founding SideOneDummy Records and discovering talent like Flogging Molly.
Jerry Harrison and Adrian Belew reunite to celebrate the influential record Remain in Light, often cited as Talking Heads' peak, with a concert tour.
Band of Skulls emerged from Southampton, England with a gritty, blues-soaked take on garage rock that felt both scrappy and deliberate. Their breakout album Baby Darling Doll Face Honey introduced a sound built on thick riffs, tight rhythm work, and a push-pull vocal dynamic that gave the songs real tension.
I had always remembered it saying something different, and then I went back and it said, 'When the ships of my dreams return.' I was really blown away. It's so literal. It's a way to try and make sense of probably a childhood that at some point maybe felt a bit fragmented.
Metalachi takes the pumping, undeniable, brass-winded sounds and haunted soul of Mariachi and combines forces with metal songs. Out of Los Angeles, and composed of classically trained musicians, this isn't a schlock shop enterprise.
While Modern Baseball co-vocalist Jake Ewald and bassist Ian Farmer have remained very busy with Slaughter Beach, Dog since MoBo's breakup, and drummer Sean Huber stayed active with Steady Hands, it's been a while since co-vocalist Bren Lukens has performed or really done anything at all in the public eye.
"As time wore on I found myself increasingly turning to my guitar instead of other people in times of loneliness and sorrow and confusion," a spoken passage from "Pathol O.G.," is not a line you'd expect to hear from the author of "Cold Blooded Old Times." But familiarity with the full sweep of Callahan's catalog gives his uncharacteristically direct expression power.
When he's not making proggy folk as a solo artist, Richard Dawson gets his skronk on as part of proggy new-wave art-rock group Hen Ogledd. Despite my attempts to do so in the previous sentence, the band are hard to succinctly describe: they can pivot from warm synthpop to mossy faerie folk to baggy Manchester shuffle beats to dense prog and even flashes of hip hop. Hen Ogledd are weird, but also welcoming.
The first, "JCMF," is a rebellious song about Jesus punishing those who are cruel and helping the children upon his return, while the second single, "No More Darkness," calls for a return to the light and a pursuit of goodness. In a press release, Sparhawk explained that "JCMF" is an older track that he's played on the road for the past year.
Rut took piano lessons in grade school, but they didn't stick. He asked his parents for a guitar because he wanted to be Ace Frehley of KISS. When his guitar teacher told him the members of KISS "weren't real musicians," he stopped playing-until high school. "I found a friend who knew all the classic rock riffs. That's when I started hearing songs in my head," he said.
Tiny Desk Radio co-hosts Bobby Carter and Anamaria Sayre present performances from the next generation of Americana music: Sierra Ferrell, whose sound is firmly planted in the roots tradition; Wyatt Flores, an Oklahoman "red dirt" country singer; and MJ Lenderman, an indie rocker who doubles as the guitarist for the band Wednesday. Sierra Ferrell: Tiny Desk Concert Wyatt Flores: Tiny Desk Concert MJ Lenderman: Tiny Desk Concert
Cameron Winter (photo via u/No_Win404 on Reddit) Geese will make their SNL debut this Saturday (1/24), and ahead of that, two members of the band played sets at a very intimate Queens show that benefitted Olive Grove Initiative, an NYC-based mutual aid group fundraising for families from Gaza. Guitarist Emily Green was on the bill at TV Eye on Monday night (1/19), along with @, fantasy of a broken heart, and Leo Paterniti, and the headliner, Chet Chomsky, wound up being Cameron Winter.
THE CHAMELEONSPost-punk greats The Chameleons have announced a spring 2026 North American tour in support of last year's Arctic Moon. The Veldt open all dates, and stops include Minneapolis, Chicago, Detroit, Toronto, Montreal, Brooklyn, DC, Philly, Asbury Park, Richmond, Tampa, Nashville, Austin and more. TRAUMA RAY / GLIXENRising shoegaze bands Trauma Ray and Glixen are going on a co-headlining tour this spring, and tour gets even 'gazier with support from Her New Knife, Knifeplay, Keep, and Money on select dates.
