Every heavy guitar tone you love owes a debt to a design brief that fit in a single sentence. In 1969, Mike Matthews, who had founded Electro-Harmonix in New York a year earlier, asked a friend for a circuit that would sing forever. That friend was Bob Myer, a Bell Labs engineer, and the answer […]
Most legendary venues start with a business plan. The Haçienda started with a slogan borrowed from the Situationists, “The Hacienda Must Be Built,” and a record label that had no idea how to run a nightclub. That naivety is exactly why it changed music history. Opened on 21 May 1982 in a former yacht showroom [&hellip
Rock is not dead, but it is not in charge either. An honest look at a genre that keeps growing its streams while losing its grip on the culture.
From a Fort Greene basement to Saturday Night Live, Geese are the most recent New York band to cross from independent obscurity to mainstream fame.
Music can turn a stadium into a single voice, but only a handful of bands ever reach that altitude. Here is what separates the few who move millions from everyone else.
On September 21, 1991, Nirvana played Les Foufounes Electriques in Montreal to about 150 people, three nights before Nevermind dropped. Inside the setlist and the night.
Vancouver has always punched above its weight in rock, and in 2026 the city’s new guard is keeping the tradition alive. Beyond the festival stages of Khatsahlano and Music Waste, a fresh crop of guitar bands is doing the unglamorous work of building a following one club show at a time. Two of them are […]
Ask where new guitar rock is coming from in 2026 and the honest answer keeps pointing north. Norway and Sweden are quietly turning out a wave of young bands that pull from blues, stoner, classic and psych rock without sounding like a tribute act. None of them are arena names yet, but together they make […]
From SummerStage and Celebrate Brooklyn to Pier 17 and Hudson Yards, the 2026 summer rock and indie festival calendar across Manhattan and Brooklyn.
From Verboden in May to Khatsahlano in July, the Vancouver festival calendar for rock and indie in 2026.
