An Oklou film score makes so much sense. Oklou’s Choke Enough, one of last year’s very best albums, cast a weirdly magical spell. When I play it in the car, I feel like I’m living in a montage. On top of that, Oklou is enough of a movie head that she’s serving as a Critics’ Week judge at this week’s Cannes Film Festival. A few days ago, Oklou worked with Theodora and SebastiAn to cover the Beatles at the Cannes opening ceremony. She also scored a new film that just debuted at Cannes.
Following the passing of power-pop maestro Adam Schlesinger (also of Fountains Of Wayne) in 2020, his Ivy bandmates members Andy Chase and Dominique Durand collected some of their final recordings with him for Traces Of You. It was released last fall and served as the indie-pop band’s first album in 14 years. Ivy also announced a handful of shows and last night they played the first of those at Park West in Chicago.
Kentucky alt-country singer-songwriter S.G. Goodman is back today with a deluxe edition of her excellent 2025 album Planting By The Signs. The album title is a reference to farming, so naturally she’s calling the deluxe (Re) Planting By The Signs. Goodman put some fascinating tweaks on the deluxe album routine. There are five bonus tracks,…
The Dark We Keep is out now! The Swedish alternative rock group Port Noir has released their highly-anticipated 5th studio album, which is out now via InsideOutMusic.
Since announcing the album in January, the trio has shared a number of breathtaking tracks from the album, which have foreshadowed the musical brilliance of The Dark We Keep.
Today, the band has revealed another glimpse into their audiovisual world with a new music video for “My Destroyer”.
Drummer AW Wiberg comments on the album release:
“After our last album, we took the time to question every part of what Port Noir could be and pushed ourselves further in every direction. We brought everything we’ve learned into these songs and stayed deeply involved in every stage of the process — shaping the arrangements, building the sound and recording the album entirely (almost) on our own terms.
The original plan was to record the whole album ourselves, but during the drum sessions a water leak hit our rehearsal space and forced us to shut everything down and rethink the process completely. Plan B ended up being our good old friend Daniel Bergstrand (Studio 33) behind the drum recordings, which gave the album another layer of weight and intensity. After that, we rented a house and recorded the rest of the instrumentals and vocals ourselves, completely immersed in the world of the album for weeks. Once everything was tracked, we mixed the record ourselves before handing it over to Magnus Lindberg for mastering.The Dark We Keep is the heaviest and most focused Port Noir album we’ve made, while still staying rooted in melody. More than anything, it feels like a natural evolution of everything we, as a band, have been building toward since the start.”
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Evanescence have unveiled the music video for ‘Who Will You Follow’, and it’s a stunningly cinematic one.
With the band’s latest album ‘Sanctuary’ set to be released on June 05, it’s another look inside the world these songs exist within.
After the single arrived alongside the album’s announcement, we now have a gorgeous music video directed by Jensen Noen.
Check it out below.
Evanescence are one of Rock Sound’s latest cover stars.
Inside, Amy Lee tells us how a new set of collaborators and a fresh perspective on her past allowed the band to create their forward-thinking latest LP, and how they channeled their frustration with the world into renewed creativity and art that finds hope in the darkness.
The band will be hitting the road in June on a world tour where they will be joined by Spiritbox in the US and Poppy in the UK and Europe. Nova Twins will also be opening in the US and Europe, and K.Flay will open in the UK.
Here are all the dates:
JUNE
11 – WEST PALM BEACH iTHINK Financial Amphitheatre 12 – TAMPA MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre 14 – ALPHARETTA Ameris Bank Amphitheatre 15 – NASHVILLE Bridgestone Arena 17 – RALEIGH Coastal Credit Union Music Park at Walnut Creek 18 – CHARLOTTE PNC Music Pavilion 20 – CAMDEN Freedom Mortgage Pavilion 21 – MANSFIELD Xfinity Center 23 – SARATOGA SPRINGS Saratoga Performing Arts Center 24 – WANTAUGH Northwell at Jones Beach Theater 26 – HOLMDEL PNC Bank Arts Center 27 – BRISTOW Jiffy Lube Live 29 – TORONTO RBC Amphitheatre 20 – MONTREAL Centre Bell
JULY
08 – TINLEY PARK Credit Union 1 Amphitheatre 09 NOBLESVILLE Ruoff Music Center 11 – NORTH LITTLE ROCK Simmons Bank Arena 12 – KANSAS CITY MORTON Amphitheater 14 – ALBUQUERQUE Isleta Amphitheater 15 – PHOENIX Talking Stick Resort Amphitheatre 17 – CHULA VISTA North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre 20 – MOUNTAIN VIEW Shoreline Amphitheatre 22 – RIDGEFIELD Cascades Amphitheater 23 – AUBURN White River Amphitheatre 25 – SALT LAKE CITY Utah First Credit Union Amphitheatre 28 – ST. LOUIS Hollywood Casino Amphitheater 30 – CUYAHOGA Blossom Music Center
AUGUST
01 – CINCINATTI Riverbend Music Center 02 – CLARKSTON Pine Knob Music Theatre
SEPTEMBER
08 – LEEDS First Direct Arena 10 – MANCHESTER Co-op Live 11 – BIRMINGHAM Utilita Arena Birmingham 13 – LONDON The O2 16. BRUSSELS Forest National 17 – PARIS Accor Arena 19 – FRANKFURT Congress Center Messe Frankfurt – Festhalle Frankfurt 20 – DORTMUND Westfalenhallen Dortmund 22 – AMSTERDAM Ziggo Dome 23 – HAMBURG Barclays Arena 25 – BERLIN Velodrom 26 – MUNICH Olympiahalle 28 – BOLOGNA Unipol Arena 29 – ZURICH Hallenstadion Zurich
OCTOBER
01 – BARCELONA Palau Olimpic Badalona 02 – MADRID Palacio Vistalegre 04 – LISBON MEO Arena 26 – MORRISON Red Rocks Amphitheatre
(written by Islander) Clear your mind and then open it for something that’s a bit off the usual beaten paths around this site, but is still plenty heavy and cloaked in darkness (and frankly, a hell of a lot of neck-wrecking fun to hear and see). What we’re talking about is the band Slow Goat […]
Let me tell you about my friend Bryan. Great guy. Big music head. He goes and sees live music all the time now. He loves stuff like Silversun Pickups and Tune-Yards and Gogol Bordello. Last year, he and I went and saw David Byrne together. That was a good night. I know Bryan because he’s a dad in my neighborhood. Our kids used to carpool together. Bryan works for the government. He throws murder mystery parties at his house sometimes, and those are fun. One time, I went bowling with him and a bunch of other neighborhood dads, and I was embarrassed because I sucked so bad. Bryan didn’t grow up going to punk shows or anything, but Bryan loves Drug Church.
On Nuclear Tomb‘s upcoming second LP, Epoch Inhumane, you’ll witness society melting and mutating. Transhumanism takes hold in a nuclear aftermath, but what’s human is only so based on organs and flesh, not soul or consciousness. Nuclear Tomb put more thought into their craft than simply stating that society sucks and we should marginally improve it, evident on their new track “Unbowed and Averse,” which we’re premiering today. The Baltimore-based thrash metal group deliver a paradoxically uncanny yet straightforward wrecking ball, yet they are not simply “thrash with weird time signatures.” They’re internally progressive, meaning that their riffs are a tad stickier, their song structures unorthodox, their drums in both present and future tense, and their critiques are penetrating. “Unbowed and Averse” features all of these elements without boasting any of them. In this sense, Nuclear Tomb are as humble as they are technically impressive. Listen closely to “Unbowed and Averse,” and you’ll get it.
