News
Plus Queens of the Stone Age, Courtney Barnett, David Byrne, Franz Ferdinand, Alvvays, and Others
Jan 08, 2018
By Christopher Roberts
The lineup for the 2018 Shaky Knees Music Festival has been announced. The festival goes down in Atlanta, GA’s Central Park May 4-6. The headliners are The National, Jack White, and Queens of the Stone Age. More
Different Days Due Out May 26 via BMG
Apr 05, 2017
By Christopher Roberts
Britpop and Madchester survivors The Charlatans are releasing a new album, Different Days, on May 26 via BMG. Now the band has shared the album’s first single, “Plastic Machinery.” More
Weather Diaries Due Out June 16 via Wichita, Video Co-Directed by Brian Jonestown Massacre's Anton Newcombe
Mar 23, 2017
By Christopher Roberts
British shoegazing icons Ride reformed in 2014 and have been touring. They announced back in December that they were working on a new album and last month they shared its first two singles (and their first new songs in 21 years), the straight up rocker “Charm Assault” and the dreamier “Home Is a Feeling.” More
Musique De Film Imaginé is Out April 27
Apr 15, 2015
By Laura Studarus
Brian Jonestown Massacre’s newest track “L’Enfer” is a moody, guitar and drone-based instrumental. More
Two-Disc Set to Include 14 Tracks Previously Only Available on 7"
Jul 27, 2011
By Margot Cooper Gruen
Brian Jonestown Massacre have announced The Singles Collection (1992-2011), due out August 30 via A Records/Redeye. More
Interviews
Exploding the Boundaries of Convention: The Full Interview
Sep 04, 2012
By Frank Valish
Anton Newcombe has always been a polarizing character and never been afraid to make headlines. With an initial salvo in 1993, his Brian Jonestown Massacre hit the ground running and released its next four albums in the span of two years, including two 1996 classics, the Rolling Stones-referencing Take It from the Man! and the more Dylan-esque Thank God for Mental Illness. More
Reviews
Mar 30, 2023
By Dom Gourlay
It’s difficult to think of any other artist over the past 30 years whose output has been as prolific or reached the same levels of consistent greatness as Anton Newcombe and The Brian Jonestown Massacre. More
Feb 14, 2023
By Dom Gourlay
The Brian Jonestown Massacre and friends bring an unforgettable night of magic and music to Nottingham Rock City. More
Apr 04, 2019
By Dom Gourlay
Anton Newcombe has been responsible for some of the most invigoratingly exploratory music released over the past quarter of a century. More
Jul 10, 2014
By Frank Valish
Revelation is the 14th album by Anton Newcombe and his Brian Jonestown Massacre, and the first to be fully recorded and produced at Newcombe’s Berlin recording studio. In typically atypical Newcombe fashion, the album begins with a song sung entirely in Swedish by an artist named Joakim Åhlund. More
May 10, 2012
By Frank Valish
Brian Jonestown Massacre, led by eccentric frontman Anton Newcombe, has gone through a particularly schizophrenic 2000s. Its recorded output has been uneven at best, with decent recordings sitting side-by-side with unlistenable dreck, and with each album it was not sure exactly which Brian Jonestown Massacre would show up. More
Feb 18, 2010
By Frank Valish
Brian Jonestown Massacre was a force to be reckoned with in the late ‘90s, churning out album after album of stoned, ‘60s-flavored garage rock that was retro in the best sense of the word and always beholden to frontman Anton Newcombe’s peculiar anachronistic vision. But the 2000s saw Brian Jonestown Massacre on a consistent downward slide, it the apparent victim of both Newcombe’s creative eccentricities as well as his own self-destructive urges. More
