DIIV’s new album, ZIRP!, bottles all the dread about societal collapse and blows it up to pop scale. With it comes “The New Alternative,” a term that attempts to describe the genre-breaking renaissance of the 2020s.

We’re exploring what that means in 2026 with an exclusive zine o/zWJIVpJHeY

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Korn closed the UK & Ireland leg of their Euro Tour 2026 at a sold-out O2 Arena in London Wednesday night. It was the band’s first London arena headline since a DEC 2016 co-bill with Limp Bizkit at Wembley Arena, and the six-date run was their first UK headline tour in 10 years.

Cage the Elephant’s next album, Dying in Reverse, arrives at the top of next year
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The Interrupters will release their new album, Battle Scars, early next year, and we’ve got exclusive vinyl, limited to 400.

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What’s the greatest The Used song? Make your case in the comments and we’ll run the results.

The band premiered ‘A Mid Summer Night’s Symphony’ at the Landmark Nuart last week in LA, their Sydney Opera House set with a full orchestra & choir, and hearing the catalog rearranged for ng all of it. Self-titled, ‘In Love and Death,’ ‘Lies for the Liars,’ anything since.

Dead Poet Society on their early days, Monarch, and following their gut shorturl.at/VC9Bu

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Welcome to Rockville 2027 will be headlined by blink-182, Pierce the Veil, Korn, and Bad Omens
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Evanescence and the search for Sanctuary shorturl.at/Iw0Ry

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Alexisonfire⁠ will go on a co-headlining tour with Poison the Well next spring, with Touché Amoré opening all dates shorturl.at/B9U8m

See what’s coming out in November with our regularly updated album release guide shorturl.at/jwgUf

Stream Saya Gray’s new EP QWERTY III
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After “Love Psychosis” blew up, @jutesmusic is learning to live on his own timeline
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.@WeAreTheUsed A Mid Summer Night’s Symphony: Live at The Sydney Opera House will be available to stream on @Veeps starting November 13th at 6pm PT.

Livestream tickets and exclusive vinyl available at veeps.events/theused

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Breaking down the meaning behind DIIV’s “The New Alternative”
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Haywire only played for minutes before the NYPD shut down their Times Square pop-up
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Watch My Chemical Romance’s “Prelude to the End” short film, featuring Phoebe Bridgers and Billie Eilish
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Ahead of their Devil’s Night show with @MCRofficial at the Hollywood Bowl, @WeAreTheUsed played an intimate show last night at the Riverside Municipal Auditorium. Were you there?

In conversation with Pete Wentz and Daisy Grenade
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See which albums are out today with our regularly updated release guide
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