Metalsucks — You'd be "Loco" to miss this if this was your jam back in the day. The post Coal Chamber Announce ‘Fiend For The Fans’ U.S. Summer Tour with Fear Factory appeared first on MetalSucks. more info

New York Post — Other heavy headliners include Mötley Crüe, Foo Fighters and Queens of the Stone Age. more info

Stereogum — Charli XCX is preparing to release her new album Brat next month. The pop star held a surprise event in Brooklyn last week, and she was on last night’s episode of Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen. On her late-night television appearance, she fangirled over The Real Housewives Of Salt Lake City's Whitney Rose. more info

Stereogum — Last month, Other Half announced Dark Ageism, the follow-up to 2022’s Soft Action, which was our Album Of The Week. They shared the lead single “Lifted Fingers” featuring Nada Surf’s Matthew Caws, and now the Norwich indie rock trio is back with “Farm Games.” more info

Stereogum — The Melbourne alt-rock quartet Quivers gained some attention in 2021 when fellow Melbourne indie artist Courtney Barnett admitted her music video was a lot like theirs. Now they’ve signed to Merge for the release of new album Oyster Cuts, and lead single “Apparition” is quite nice. The slightly twangy, lackadaisical vibe puts them squarely in the Pavement zone — as do hooks that rhyme “oh my god, oh my god” with “everybody’s got, everybody’s got” and break out into a wordless “woo-ooh” melody. There’s also a bit of cheery early 2010s Grouplove/Of Monsters And Men-type energy in the song that I will forgive because it’s mighty catchy, because the guitars are extremely classic rock, and because I like the lyric “Do you turn into an apparition without the smoke?” more info

Stereogum — Fcukers, a trio from NYC making headblown electronic party music, recently signed to the Ninja Tune imprint Technicolor. Shanny Wise (vocals), Ben Scharf (drums), and Jackson Walker Lewis (bass, keys, production) are back today with “Bon Bon,” a wild new track that reminds me of Basement Jaxx or — I hate to say it about a song I’m enjoying — Die Antwoord. Except with a vocal element that strikes me as a bit indie-pop? I don’t know. It thumps, it bangs, it’s just begging to soundtrack a hedonistic movie montage. Getcha bon bon below. more info

Stereogum — Like the subject of its lead single, Dua Lipa’s Radical Optimism comes and it goes, a quick pop workout that immediately does a Houdini-like escape act from staying power. The record is a frustrating listen: an album that it’s hard to find anything really wrong with, that’s packed to capacity with inarguable bangers, but that feels so, so inessential. more info

Antimusic Rock — This morning, multi-platinum singer/songwriter Dierks Bentley took the stage of ABC's Good Morning America more info