Peter Gabriel recently wrapped up the first leg of his i/o tour, in support of a new album of the same that still doesn’t have a release date but has a whole lot of singles, including “Road To Joy,” “Four Kinds Of Horses,” the title track, and more. Today, he’s sharing another on … | Continue reading
The Idol is over. Sunday night, the Weeknd’s controversial and much-discussed HBO series aired its season finale, which may well turn out to be a series finale. With the conclusion of the season came the final installment of its soundtrack, which has been rolling out from week to … | Continue reading
Until this week, Bratmobile, the surfy, garage-rocking riot grrrl pioneers from Olympia, had not performed since 2002. That changed with a pair of reunion gigs in California — first a secret club show in LA, then a festival in Oakland. | Continue reading
My Morning Jacket covered the Beatles’ “The Ballad Of John And Yoko” during their set at the Peach Music Festival in Scranton, PA on Saturday night. This isn’t the first time that Jim James and co. have covered the band (or members of it): James covered “The Inner Light” in 2020, … | Continue reading
YouTube legend Nardwuar The Human Serviette has come a long way since 1991, when Sonic Youth treated him like dogshit. This past weekend, Narduar made the pilgrimage to Summer Smash, the rap festival in Chicago. There, he interviewed Florida rap energy-bomb Ski Mask The Slump God … | Continue reading
The charts have been lacking something lately. A certain pizzazz? The spark of excitement that accompanies big-tent pop music at its best? As we reach the midpoint of 2023, it’s hard to remember a time when mainstream pop has been so bereft of zeitgeist-seizing giddiness — certai … | Continue reading
Last we heard from electro-funk standouts Chromeo, Dave 1 and P-Thugg released 2021’s Date Night: Chromeo Live!, which featured tracks from a 2019 North America concert tour where Chromeo had performed live with a full band for the first time. More recently, Chromeo performed at … | Continue reading
Pointedly ditching his usual Four Tet moniker, the legendary electronic producer and composer Kieran Hebden teamed with the also-legendary folk-rock guitarist William Tyler on a new 7″ out today via Sylvan Esso’s Psychic Hotline imprint. We heard the single’s vast and exploratory … | Continue reading
Flying High is an appropriate title for the new Alchemist EP. The veteran hip-hop producer has been on a roll in recent years, crafting acclaimed collaborative projects with a number of underground rap’s leading lights. Many of them appear on the new project. Guests on Flying Hig … | Continue reading
Olivia Rodrigo has released “Vampire,” the lead single to her sophomore album GUTS, which she announced earlier this week — it’ll be out in September. | Continue reading
S. Carey has teamed up with jazz trumpeter John Raymond for a collaborative album, Shadowlands, which will be released in September. The pair of them first met as students at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire; while Carey got involved in the Bon Iver extended universe, Raymo … | Continue reading
It’s been nearly two years since in-demand sad-music architect James Blake released Friends That Break Your Heart, his last album. Since then, Blake has been as busy as ever. Just in the past few months, Blake put in a surprise guest appearance at Rolling Loud, soundtracked one o … | Continue reading
Last fall we stamped a Band To Watch designation on Fievel Is Glauque, the duo of Brooklyn avant-garde veteran Zach Phillips (Blanche Blanche Blanche, Grendel’s Mother, Perfect Angels) and Belgium-based singer Ma Clément. That band’s excellent Flaming Swords album brimmed with a … | Continue reading
On Friday, fingerstyling guitarist Hayden Pedigo will release his new album, The Happiest Times I Ever Ignored. Pedigo has already shared two songs, the album’s lead single “Elsewhere” and the title track, and just ahead of release he’s sharing one more: “Signal Of Hope.” | Continue reading
Sheryl Crow is now a fixture of Nashville — she was involved with the Highwomen project, Kacey Musgraves recorded Golden Hour above her horse stable, etc. — and this month she was on the bill at Tennessee’s biggest music festival, Bonnaroo. While at the farm, Crow strapped on som … | Continue reading
Earlier in June, Vampire Weekend announced a vinyl-only live album series beginning with the already released Frog On The Bass Drum Vol. 01 Live In Indianapolis, which is made up of recordings from the band’s June 2019 show in Indianapolis, and includes their cover of Bob Dylan’s … | Continue reading
Last year, Lil Uzi Vert shared the Red & White EP (featuring single “Space Cadet”) and a separate single, “Just Wanna Rock.” Today, following their performance at Sunday’s BET Awards, which contained a preview of the long-awaited The Pink Tape LP, Lil Uzi Vert has shared an offic … | Continue reading
In May, Post Malone announced that his fifth studio album, AUSTIN, would be out July 28. Today, shared an important album update via social media: “My new record ‘AUSTIN’ has 17 songs. Here’s a snippet of one of ’em, I love you!!!” Included in said update was a 30-second teaser o … | Continue reading
Sunshine Convention is the project of Brooklyn’s Jake Whitener. Like Dazy’s James Goodson, he has worked as a music publicist among other behind-the-scenes roles, and like Goodson, he’s so good at churning out ultra-catchy guitar-pop tunes that he was bound to step into the spotl … | Continue reading
In 1999, Stephin Merritt released his magnum opus. Merritt and his Magnetic Fields might’ve considered the triple-disc masterpiece 69 Love Songs to be an experiment in sentimentality and factory-style songwriting, but the songs themselves are so good that they’ve continued to res … | Continue reading
A couple of months ago, living legend Willie Nelson celebrated his 90th birthday with a pair of all-star concerts at the Hollywood Bowl. To celebrate the occasion, Texas Monthly took on the herculean task of ranking all of Nelson’s albums, which involved the difficult task of det … | Continue reading
Palehound are releasing their new album Eye On The Bat next month. We’ve already written about its lead single “The Clutch” and follow-up “My Evil.” Today, El Kempner is back with another album preview called “Independence Day,” which also comes with a video. | Continue reading
Less than a month ago, Gorillaz announced a limited run of “Getaway” shows, which would take take place in four US cities (Los Angeles, Austin, Chicago, and Boston) over the course of a week-and-a-half in September, with support from Kaytranada, Lil Yachty, and Remi Wolf. Those s … | Continue reading
J. Robbins has released a cover of Naked Raygun’s “Got Hurt,” which will appear on a tribute album dedicated to the band’s bass player Pierre Kezdy, who passed away in 2020. “Naked Raygun was a formative influence on my concept of punk music from the first time I heard ‘Surf Comb … | Continue reading
OK. So. A lot going on here. As you are probably aware, five people are currently missing, as authorities are searching for a small submersible that went looking for the wreck of the Titanic. If they’re even still alive, and if they aren’t found, they will probably run out of oxy … | Continue reading
Two summers ago, drummer and trumpeter Steve Lamos left American Football, citing changing life circumstances that were interfering with his commitment to the band. Now, he’s back behind the kit for the twinkly, mathy emo pioneers. A week ago the band, which recently purchased th … | Continue reading
Yo La Tengo — who put out one of the best albums of 2023 so far with This Stupid World — have fulfilled every film nerd’s fantasy: They got to stop by the the Criterion Closet and pick out anything they wanted. Yes, that’s right, Yo La Tengo are going deeper into movies — not tha … | Continue reading
Who’s ready for some soft and dreamy power-pop? If that’s you, hurry to the YouTube embed in this post to enjoy the lead single from Hurry’s new LP. The album, Don’t Look Back, is named after a song by Teenage Fanclub, who famously named themselves after a Big Star song. That’s t … | Continue reading
Pop star Ava Max was slapped in the face by a man who managed to make his way on-stage at her show in Los Angeles last night. Video circulting from the event shows someone hitting her and being immediately escorted away by a security guard. After the incident, Ava Max tweeted: “H … | Continue reading
Tonight in Paris, Pharrell Williams launched his first show as Louis Vuitton Men’s Creative Director; Williams succeeded the late designer Virgil Abloh in February. Set at the Pont Neuf, the show also debuted a new Clipse song, which is tentatively called “Chains ‘N Whips” (it go … | Continue reading
A punk band for the “sped-up version” age, Snõõper are a Nashville DIY five-piece that play brutally fast, incredibly fun songs. Starting out in 2020 as a collaboration between guitarist Connor Cummins and vocalist Blair Tramel, Snõõper have released a handful of EPs so far (Musi … | Continue reading
This weekend, the nascent Austin festival Oblivion Access returned for its second outing. Though originally plotted to debut in 2020, rising from the ashes of Austin Terror Fest, Oblivion Access got put on hold during the long pandemic wait for live music to properly return. Now … | Continue reading
Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour rolls on, and this weekend she was in Pittsburgh for two nights at the Acrisure Stadium. On Saturday night during her surprise songs segment, she brought out Aaron Dessner to perform folklore track “seven” live in concert for the first time. (The only oth … | Continue reading
The Songwriters Hall Of Fame held its induction ceremony Thursday night at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City. This year’s class included Gloria Estefan, Jeff Lynne, Teddy Riley, Glen Ballard, and Liz Rose, as well as Snoop Dogg and Sade Adu, both of whom deferred their … | Continue reading
The Idol, the new HBO show from the Weeknd and Sam Levinson, is two weeks into a very eventful first season. The show was a controversy magnet before it even made it to air, and it has remained a topic of overheated conversation since its premiere. Most recently, The Idol got a l … | Continue reading
The first time I listened to Yeezus, my iPhone overheated. When the album leaked — a few days before it officially dropped 10 years ago this Sunday — I was on vacation with my wife’s family in Orlando, a scenario that did not lend itself to immersing myself in a transgressive and … | Continue reading
The general field Grammys categories, colloquially known as the Big Four, are the most prestigious awards handed out by the Recording Academy: Album Of The Year, Record Of The Year, Song Of The Year, and Best New Artist. For the first six decades of the Grammys, there were five n … | Continue reading
Last month, the NYC musician Allegra Krieger announced a new album, I Keep My Feet On The Fragile Plane, which is out in July. She shared “Nothing In This World Ever Stays Still” from it at the time, and today she’s back with another new single, “Lingering.” “Lingering is about n … | Continue reading
At the end of March, the UK musician Georgia announced a new album, Euphoric, the follow-up to 2020’s Seeking Thrills. The album was produced with Rostam, and in the past few months its lead single “It’s Euphoric” has gotten two new versions, one Mura Masa remix and one self-remi … | Continue reading
One of the epic sagas of our times has come to a conclusion. In a new interview with Interview, Charlie Puth admits that he did, indeed, once tell his driver, “I’m hungies.” | Continue reading
Gold Panda first released “The Corner” last fall as an instrumental ahead of his comeback album The Work. Today the track becomes the basis for vocals from three fascinating voices: heroic indie hip-hop veteran Open Mike Eagle, German surrealist MC Infinite Livez, and Virginia ja … | Continue reading
At the end of this week, Hand Habits is releasing Sugar The Bruise, a collection of tracks that Meg Duffy wrote during a songwriting class a few years ago. We’ve heard “Something Wrong” and “Private Life” from it already, and today they’re back with one last single, “The Bust of … | Continue reading
I have waited for this day. In 2019, the Northeast band Restraining Order released their debut album This World Is Too Much, one of the greatest and most anthemic works of old-school fast hardcore that I’ve heard in recent years. That album is catchy and vicious and impeccably we … | Continue reading
The young LA fuzz-poppers Momma have an extremely ’90s sound, and right now, they’re on tour with some extremely ’90s bands. For the next couple of weeks, Momma are opening shows for Weezer and Modest Mouse on Weezer’s Indie Rock Roadtrip tour. Last night, that tour rolled throug … | Continue reading
In the three years since her last album, 2020’s Sorceress, Jess Williamson has lived a lot of life. She went through a heavy breakup, found herself single for the first time in nearly a decade, and began figuring herself out alone in Los Angeles. She reconnected with an old acqua … | Continue reading
J Hus has teamed up with Drake for a new single, “Who Told You,” the British rapper’s second new track of the year following last month’s “It’s Crazy.” In 2019, J Hus made a surprise appearance during Drake’s concert in London shortly after his release from jail for carrying a kn … | Continue reading
Tomorrow, the 69-year-old musician Rob Grant will release his debut album Lost At Sea, and the record is getting a lot of attention for one very simple reason: Rob Grant’s daughter Lizzy grew up to become Lana Del Rey. Lana sings on two songs from the LP, which also features cont … | Continue reading
Last month, Madeline Kenney announced a new album, A New Reality Mind, with the lead single “Superficial Conversation.” Her follow-up to 2020’s Sucker’s Lunch is out at the end of July, and today she’s sharing another new track from the album, the grooving and multifaceted “I Dre … | Continue reading