We Are Impala
We Are Impala, the “BCN Cosmic Twisters”, a Barcelona instrumental psychedelic post-rock band.
Alternatiu
Rock alternatiu —o rock alternativo— i propostes que no encaixen en cap altra etiqueta: Tótum Revolútum Press hi recull novetats discogràfiques, concerts i entrevistes de bandes que construeixen un so propi, al marge dels circuits més comercials.
Jane’s Addiction
Jane’s Addiction, the Los Angeles band that founded the Lollapalooza festival.
Sonic Youth
Sonic Youth, the New York band, a pioneer of noise rock and experimental alternative.
Pixies
Pixies, the Boston band, a direct influence on Nirvana and 1990s alternative rock.
R.E.M.
R.E.M., the Athens (Georgia) band, a pioneer of American alternative rock.
The Smashing Pumpkins
The Smashing Pumpkins, the Chicago band that fused alternative rock and symphonic ambition in the 1990s.
Stone Temple Pilots
Stone Temple Pilots, the San Diego band, a reference of 1990s post-grunge.
Alice in Chains
Alice in Chains, the Seattle band with grunge’s darkest sound, marked by the death of Layne Staley.
Soundgarden
Soundgarden, the Seattle grunge pioneers, with Chris Cornell on vocals.
Pearl Jam
Pearl Jam, the Seattle band, a leading name in 1990s grunge and alternative rock.
Nirvana
Nirvana, the band from Aberdeen, Washington, that took grunge to worldwide stardom with Nevermind.
Archive release “Not In My Name” on 19 March, with an eighteen-minute title track sung by all five voices
The Croydon collective’s fourteenth album, just over a year on from “Glass Minds”. Eleven tracks on Dangervisit and [PIAS], with a 2027 tour taking in four German cities.
Faith No More return to Europe in June 2027 as headliners of Gdańsk’s Mystic Festival
It’s the first European date of the comeback, announced with a “Surprise! We’re alive!”. Faith No More have not played since August 2016, and in January and February they play four shows in Australia and New Zealand.
Nirvana collect MTV’s Video Vanguard Award, the first band to take it since Duran Duran in 2003
Dave Grohl, Krist Novoselic and Pat Smear picked it up on 27 September at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles, handed over by Chuck D. The band shot seven videos before 1994.
Ryley Walker signs to AD 93 and returns with “Carrier”, built from digital distortion and a discarded guitar demo
The guitarist’s first new music since “Course in Fable” (2021). He made it at home in New York after closing shifts at a service job.
Father John Misty plays his first solo tour since 2013 and releases “The X-panded Universe”
Josh Tillman’s third standalone release of the year, arranged by Drew Erickson. Eight December dates with Damien Jurado, the last two benefiting a Big Sur school.
A Perfect Circle release “To Whom It May Concern” and announce thirty-two American dates with Puscifer and The Cult
The second single of the year from Billy Howerdel and Maynard James Keenan’s band, cut at Lankershim Ranch with Josh Freese on drums. The tour opens on 13 April in Vancouver.
Various Artists – We Are The Beautiful: Two Decades Of Shoegaze 1991-2011
Four discs and sixty-seven tracks from Cherry Red tracing shoegaze from 1991 to 2011. The choice of small names is excellent; the hole at the start, less so.
At the Drive-In
At the Drive-In, the post-hardcore band that was a forerunner of The Mars Volta.
Sigur Rós
Sigur Rós, the Icelandic band, a world reference in atmospheric post-rock and in falsetto singing in “hopelandic”.
Failure
Failure, the American space-themed alternative rock band, admired by A Perfect Circle and Tool.
Deftones
Deftones, the American band that took alternative metal into atmospheric and experimental territory.
Coheed and Cambria
Coheed and Cambria, the American band that tells a single science-fiction saga across its entire discography.
Muse
Muse, the British band that combines alternative rock, progressive ambition and stadium spectacle.
Radiohead
Radiohead, the British band that brought experimentation and progressive structure to mass-audience alternative rock.
Polyphia
Polyphia, the Dallas instrumental band that has taken djent-pop to massive streaming numbers.
Chon
Chon, the American instrumental band that fuses math rock and melodic progressive metal.
Voyager
Voyager, the Australian band that blends progressive metal with pop synthesizers, and Australia’s representatives at Eurovision in 2023.
Karnivool
Karnivool, the Australian band that fuses progressive metal and alternative rock.
Anathema
Anathema, the Liverpool band that evolved from doom metal towards atmospheric progressive rock.
The Mars Volta
The Mars Volta, the band of Cedric Bixler-Zavala and Omar Rodríguez-López, which emerged from the break-up of At the Drive-In.
Pineapple Thief
The Pineapple Thief, Bruce Soord’s project, with Gavin Harrison (Porcupine Tree) on drums since 2016.
Tool
Tool, the most hermetic band in progressive metal: thirteen years between albums, structures inspired by the Fibonacci sequence and a public image that avoids almost any exposure.
Porcupine Tree
Porcupine Tree, Steven Wilson’s fictitious project that ended up becoming a real band: from the home-recorded psychedelic rock of the nineties to the progressive metal of “Fear of a Blank Planet”.
Cursive premiere “Wounded Animal”, from the soundtrack to the film Tim Kasher has directed
The soundtrack to “Who’s Watching” is out on 30 October through 15 Passenger with thirteen tracks: one side by the film’s fictional band and one of score.
Karnivool are the first confirmation for Be Prog! My Friend 2027 and will play their first Spanish show there
The festival holds its ninth chapter on 24 and 25 September 2027 at La Carpa del Poble Espanyol. For the Australians it is their only Spanish festival of the year.
Son Volt – Sound Signal Serenades
Twelve songs in forty minutes: Son Volt’s first album of new material since “Electro Melodier” (2021) puts its variety in the arrangements rather than in the songs.
Merge reissues The Clean’s second EP on vinyl, forty-four years on and from the National Library of New Zealand tapes
Out on 13 November alongside the “Getting Older” seven-inch. Neither has been pressed since 1982, and neither has ever been on vinyl in North America.
Justin K. Broadrick plays on “On Video”, the end-credits song from “Primetime”, and points out he is there as Jesu, not Godflesh
A24 Music released the soundtrack on 25 September. It is Broadrick’s third collaboration with Phoebe Bridgers in six weeks.
The Calling return with “Before The World Turns To Dust”, twenty-two years after “Two”
Fifteen songs produced by John Fields between Nashville and Minneapolis. Alex Band arrives with a new line-up: Daniel Damico and Dom Liberati.