Queens of the Stone Age’s dark reverie comes to life on their Catacombs tour

Dragging their Alive in the Catacombs set above ground, Josh Homme and company put together a night unlike any other in the rock world.

CONCERT REPORTS

Queens of the Stone Age’s dark reverie comes to life on their Catacombs tour
Dragging their Alive in the Catacombs set above ground, Josh Homme and company put together a night unlike any other in the rock world.

Supergrass brings the strange ones back together in Boston
The band closed their I Should Coco tour in style, like the past 30 years had just breezed by.

The Who, with ragged and reckless abandon, bid goodbye to Boston
Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey rally one more time for a show-stopping finale at Fenway Park.

From the depths to the light: Queens of the Stone Age, alive in Paris and Boston
Josh Homme and company followed up the release of the jaw-dropping Alive in the Catacombs by opening their U.S. tour with two thundering shows.

Dropping the leash and chasing the dragon with Pearl Jam in Atlanta
Making another trip to see the band led to a great time in the city and one of the more notable nights in this band's recent history.

Music, memories and blood rule Pearl Jam’s run at Fenway Park
The third leg of Pearl Jam's 2024 Dark Matter tour concludes with two more stunning shows.

Pearl Jam, Wrigley Field and the sun at the break of dawn
How many times can one person see the same band? When it's a band like this, it's amazing how deep the web of connection gets.

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard & Joey & Timmy & the full moon & a sea of melted faces, next to an international airport
I may have to start marking my life as “Time Before First Seeing King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard,” and “Time After First Seeing King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard.”

The Rolling Stones defy the laws of space and time in Foxboro
There's a simple and incredible fact at play here: this is still a great band putting on a great show every night in their seventh decade together.

Neil and the Horse stomp their way through Great Woods
In the glow of giant-sized Fender amps and a racing horse floating among the stars on the stage, Neil Young and Crazy Horse plugged in and unleashed their furious racket that is uniquely specific to them.

Traveling to Minnesota with Pearl Jam and everyone along the way
Another year, another Pearl Jam road trip, with the band and the surroundings delivering once again.

Springsteen and the E Street Band play for those here and gone at Gillette Stadium
Bruce Springsteen was his revelatory self in Foxboro, Mass., paying tribute to all those who have helped him take part in this journey through the years.

Robert Plant and Alison Krauss cement their unique musical path at Thompson’s Point
Plant and Krauss capped the U.S. leg of the Raise the Roof tour in the scenic surroundings of Portland's peninsula.

REVIEWS

Ty Segall’s one-man aesthetic gets some satisfying adornments on Possession
Segall returns with another record founded on his ability to overdub himself with ease, but goes a step further with some final flourishes.

Wet Leg returns on Moisturizer, ready to fight
Wet Leg's second album confirms that their brilliant debut was no fluke.

King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard touches down with the brilliant Phantom Island
The band that can seemingly do anything and tries everything reaches for a new bar and delivers a stunning record.

The years and miles lead Pearl Jam to triumph with Dark Matter
On their twelfth album, the band pulls together to deliver a latter-day masterpiece.

Ty Segall’s Three Bells puts freedom ahead of genres and styles
Segall returns with another twisted set of sounds and songs, merging into one glorious freak-out..

The journey’s in the detours and the details with The Smile’s Wall of Eyes
The second album from The Smile is at once relaxed and urgent, resulting in just a delightful dost of twisted reality, and the perfect introduction to this still-new year of 2024.

Queens of the Stone Age step out of the darkness with In Times New Roman...
Josh Homme and company have emerged from these troubled times with an absolute masterpiece of an album.

Council Skies is Noel Gallagher at his retrospective best
As if on cue, Gallagher looks back and delivers an album that shines a light on the path beyond all this.

Sonic Youth moves from noise to atmospheric jams and back on In/Out/In
It's been too long without new music from Sonic Youth. And even if everything here is more than a decade old, it's still a thrilling listen.

Neil and the Horse swing in and out of time on Barn
Neil Young and Crazy Horse emerge with an album that exists for this moment and should last beyond it.

All the phases, stages and winding roads to Let It Be
The last Beatles album to be released gets the deluxe treatment that the music always deserved.

Fifty years later, new sounds collide with classic vibes on George Harrison’s All Things Must Pass
A new mix and a wealth of alternate material provide new chapters to the story of Harrison's defiant first album.

LONG FORM

Restless Souls
How Pearl Jam fought back and saved themselves with Vitalogy

By 1994, Pearl Jam had been backed into a corner. They responded with a dark album that was both catchy and anti-commercial.

Chasing the Sun
How Oasis crossed oceans with Definitely Maybe

Twenty years after Oasis' debut, we trace the highs, lows and lasting impact of Definitely Maybe.

Let it Ride
Ryan Adams' long, prolific road to Cold Roses

Ryan Adams suffered heartbreak and frustration at the start of his solo career, and he channeled it all into his 2005 masterpiece, Cold Roses.

Crawling Back to You
A critical and personal breakdown of Tom Petty's masterpiece, Wildflowers

This special e-zine tackles all aspects of Petty's masterful Wildflowers, from the details to the personal.

NEW CLASSICS

Sweep It Into Space is just the most recent triumph by Dinosaur Jr.
Death, taxes and Dinosaur Jr. delivering another outstanding record. It's just nice having something positive to rely upon.

The effortless greatness of the Rolling Stones at the El Mocambo
It might be heresy to suggest as much, but this might be the finest live moment of the Rolling Stones ever committed to tape.

Hitting a new peak with the Allman Brothers Band on Hittin’ the Note
In 2003, Gregg Allman and company went into the studio and pulled another classic record out of the air.

The Stones’ Love You Live is a ramshackle time capsule of a wild band
Are there better live albums by the Rolling Stones? Probably. But there are hardly any as fun or riotously messy as this one.

Dylan, the Band and capturing the flood in 1974
Bob Dylan and the Band set out on a tour that resulted in a series of raucous shows that captured America's imagination, and resulted in the double-live Before the Flood.

The Faces were flying immediately on First Step
It might not technically be their best work, but the Faces laid the foundation for their greatness with their debut First Step.

BOOTLEGGING

Capturing the Rolling Stones in a moment of revolution, via Live’r Than You’ll Ever Be
Nearly 50 years later, one of the key nights in the transformation of the Rolling Stones lives on.

Led Zeppelin's early fury captured at the Fillmore West
In this edition of Bootlegging, a recording from April, 1969, shows Led Zeppelin introducing audiences to their ridiculously heavy blend of rock and blues on an early American tour.

Keith Richards reveled in old favorites on 'Stone Alone'
Free of his famous band and even his most famous instrument, Keith Richards found solace on some old standards in these rare solo sessions, all captured on a bootleg.

Technical difficulties can't stop a blazing set from the Who
Tape issues kept the Who from presenting their epic Quadrophenia album the way they wanted in 1973. So instead, they did everything short of setting their guitars on fire in this flawed, brilliant show.

FEATURES

This is the place: Delving into Radiohead’s hacked minidiscs
Through questionable means but ultimately positive results, hours and hours of Radiohead's demos and outtakes from OK Computer have been unleashed, and they're a revelation.

10 for the 10s: Telling the story of the past decade in 10 albums
Matt and Nick each run through 10 albums that defined their past 10 years, from country to hip hop, singer-songwriters to rockers.

Looking back through Jimi Hendrix's trains
Tracking the many versions of "Hear My Train a Comin'" that Jimi Hendrix recorded, with words and images.

Darker and lighter reflections: Music in 2016
This year was obviously a mess. But we kept getting a lot of good music, and it helped keep everything afloat a little while longer.