Sweden’s Refused is gigging again, 14 years after putting out a record so slept on that Pitchfork neglected to review it in 1998, but handed down a 9.4 rating for its 2010 reissue. The Shape of Punk to Come is what makes a Refused reunion show so exciting: It’s a massively influential work that hasn’t been [...]

This summer's Fort Reno concert series kicked off this past Monday night, and the second installment—with BRENDA, Art Sorority for Girls, and Edie Sedgwick—will start this evening at 7 p.m.
But the full schedule wasn't announced until, well, now. It's up. Hallelujah. It's the requisite mix of relative unknowns (Cigarbox Planetarium, East Paw) and local heavy-hitters [...]

We'll skip the obvious joke about band titles with double v's and say that indie rock seems to really love its noise these days: Nottingham, England's Lovvers, however, serve up a much more elemental tonic to the brainier stuff we've become used to on this side of the pond. As part of its first U.S. [...]