Guardian explored how fatherhood affected careers of male musicians, and how they dealt with it. UK rapper Ghetts says that when he had his daughter eight years ago, he “wasn’t as financially secure as I am now, so I panicked. It was like, ‘Wow, I’m going to be responsible for another human being.’ So it threw me into being more busy, if anything”. Similarly, Hot Chip’s Joe Goddard cites his breadwinner role - his children “get upset when I am about to go away”, but they “understand my job provides a good lifestyle for them where we have the things that we want”. As for logistics, Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne brought his newborn on tour, similar to Thurston Moore and Kim Gordon, while Ghetts solves his fatherly duties by “speeding back during the night” after shows, and then “doing the school run in the morning”.

Arab Strap are back with new music, their first in 15 years, a funny little song called 'The Turning Of Our Bones'; Bette Smith dropped soul-heavy rocker 'I'm a Sinner', about her relationship with her mother; Thurston Moore dropped a 12-minute dreamer 'Siren'; Killer Be Killed supergroup - featuring Troy Sanders (Mastodon), Greg Puciato (The Dillinger Escape Plan), Max Cavalera (Soulfly), and Ben Koller (Converge) - dropped a catchy metal song 'Deconstructing Self-Destruction'; Hey Colossus colab with Mark Lanegan 'The Mirror' is slow and not really loud, still it's powerful; Nadine Khouri grew up in 'Beirut' and said that 'To Sleep' was written as "a lullaby from a war zone"; Anohni dropped a political song 'R.N.C. 2020'.

Mr. Bungle released their 1st recorded music since 1999, an Exploited cover 'USA', for charity; Wiley released his last album this weekend, 'Double Dragon' is the club banger from it; Bob Mould's new 'American Crisis' title says it all; Thurston Moore released 'Strawberry Moon', a new nine-minute post-rocky instrumental; Meek Mill's 'Otherside of America' is a melancholic protest song.

John Paul Jones, bassist and keyboardist of legendary Led Zeppelin, and Thurston Moore of noise rock icons Sonic Youth are set to perform together at a fundraising event on March 28th at the 100 Club in London. It’s a benefit concert to raise funds for community radio station Resonance FM. The duo will be joined by improvisational jazz […]