There’s a lot of great covers out there, but it’s nearly impossible to talk about excellent covers, certainly within the alt/rock scene, without mentioning Alien Ant Farm’s rendition of the Michael ...

From the DJ booth of Berlin’s Panorama Bar to the Balearic synth-pop of the Charm, Avalon Emerson is embracing the freedom of a borderless musical landscape ...

Quebec’s newest breakout band wears paper-mâché masks with giant phallic noses and polka-dot-speckled costumes covering their entire bodies. Their music sounds like a freewheeling jam session that ...

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The blues didn’t arrive from the US as something alien. It arrived as something curiously familiar. See how bands across Scandinavia have made the sound their own.

Thrash metal titans Testament keep headbanging (though less so than before) while producing hard hitting songs about some very contemporary concerns.

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The new record has been teased with first single 'Echoed Dafnino', which features vocals from Sudanese-born, Cairo-based singer MaMan, while other features include Zulu/English MC Toya DeLazy, and ...