The Painkillers

The second album that took Counting Crows to number one in America still carries the weight of its biggest song and the creative risks that followed their breakthrough debut.

Fire Records has issued a limited white vinyl edition of the 1996 album, complete with a download of previously scarce tracks, as the record that closed the band's Atlantic era continues to attract a dedicated following.

London alternative rock four-piece unpeople have released their debut full-length we are unpeople on SharpTone Records, accompanied by a new track and fan lyric video for haunted.

The longtime drummer, whose powerful playing helped define the band's classic albums, has died following a prolonged fight with lung cancer. His passing comes three years after the death of frontman Ron Peno.

Live and Stone Temple Pilots will co-headline Lookout at Kings Park in March 2027, with The Living End and Magic Dirt completing a four-band alternative rock bill.

Eight of Bush's 14 songs at Melbourne's John Cain Arena came from albums released between 2020 and 2025, revealing a set built less around nostalgia than the emotional territory Gavin Rossdale is writing about now.

Evan Dando rebuilt The Lemonheads with the rhythm section of Descendents for the band's first album in nine years, bringing together a cast that also included J Mascis and Garth Hudson.