Over the past few months, Jonny Pierce’s one-man indie-pop project the Drums has rumbled back to life, releasing the new singles “I Want It All,” “Plastic Envelope,” and “Protect Him Always.” There’s a North American tour coming up, and there’s also an album on the way, though Pi … | Continue reading
Later this summer, the elegant and sophisticated pop-punk heartthrob Chris Farren will release his new album Doom Singer. He recorded it with producer Melina Duterte, who most of us know as Jay Som. We’ve already posted first single “Cosmic Leash,” which has a very funny video an … | Continue reading
Shamir has announced a new album, Homo Anxietatem, his follow-up to last year’s Homosexuality and his first for Kill Rock Stars. Shamir recorded the album with the London producer Hoost (aka Justin Tailor). Today, we’re getting the gleaming lead single “Oversized Sweater.” | Continue reading
In April, Russell Fitzgibbon — the Sydney producer who performs under the alias Skeleten — announced his debut full-length album, Under Utopia. Out July 28, it features already released singles “Walking On Your Name,” “Mirrored,” “No Drones In The Afterlife,” and “Sharing The Fir … | Continue reading
Next month, Jimmy Eat World and Manchester Orchestra, two long-running and canonical bands who have grand and sweeping emo classics for days, will head out on a North American tour together. It’ll be a true co-headlining affair, with the two groups taking turns closing the shows. … | Continue reading
Late last year, the veteran UK rock keyboardist Martin Duffy died after suffering a brain injury from a fall at his home. Duffy was 55. He’d played with bands like Felt and the Charlatans, but he spent most of his career in Primal Scream — first as a contributing musician and the … | Continue reading
Fountains Of Wayne had released three albums and been together nearly a decade before they reached the Top 40 with their 2003 single “Stacy’s Mom.” A zippy new wave throwback indebted to the Cars’ chugging rhythms and keyboard-heavy power-pop, the song features a hormones-raging … | Continue reading
Trapland Pat’s major-label debut Trapnificent lived up to its name, and today the South Florida rapper is back with a new full-length project. The mixtape Professor Trap finds Pat once again drawling and rasping in compulsively listenable ways, backed by a small army of guests in … | Continue reading
Water Damage are a Texas-based drone supergroup of sorts. Recording for Gerard Cosloy’s 12XU imprint, the band brings together Mari Maurice aka More Eaze, Thor Harris (formerly of Swans and a billion other things), and members of bands such as Spray Paint, USA/Mexico, Marriage, a … | Continue reading
The Re:Set tour, a new kind of traveling festival with headliners boygenius, LCD Soundsystem, and Steve Lacy rotating through three cities over the course of a weekend, launched last night. The boygenius-led lineup kicked off in San Diego at Thrive Park at Snapdragon Stadium, wit … | Continue reading
In 2019, Coldplay announced that they would not tour again until they could do so in a more environmentally friendly fashion. When they headed out on the road last year in support of 2021’s Music Of The Spheres, they did so with new initiatives in place, hoping to reduce the carb … | Continue reading
Central Cee and Dave are two of the biggest stars in the UK rap world, and they’ve both become big festival draws across the world in the past few years. The two of them are good friends, but before today, they hadn’t been on a song together since 2016, when both of them appeared … | Continue reading
The great American songwriter Lucinda Wililams just published her memoir Don’t Tell Anybody The Secrets I Told You, and it’s already a New York Times bestseller. Next month, she’ll also release her new album Stories From A Rock N Roll Heart, her first since suffering a debilitati … | Continue reading
Foo Fighters were never, ever going to break up. Dave Grohl is a rock ‘n’ roll lifer and a perpetual motion machine; it is virtually impossible to imagine him ending the band he started as a solo project in the wake of Kurt Cobain’s suicide nearly three decades ago, even after th … | Continue reading
At the end of 2023, Gabby Smith, the New York DIY musician who records under the Gabby’s World name, will drop her new LP Gabby Sword. Really, though, we’re getting Gabby Sword one track at a time, with Smith releasing one new song every month for the entire year. We’ve already p … | Continue reading
The fifth and final season of Amy Sherman-Palladino’s The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel wraps up today, May 26, on Amazon. Also today, Legacy Recordings has released the season five soundtrack, which features six new songs, including a cover of Dave Edmunds’ “Girls Talk” by Tegan And Sar … | Continue reading
For more than a year, Young Thug has been locked up, awaiting trial on various RICO charges. He’s been denied bond multiple times, and his various courtroom exploits have not been encouraging. A few months ago, another defendant was caught on camera handing Thug some Percocet in … | Continue reading
German police have opened a criminal investigation of Roger Waters for “suspected incitement” following May 17 and 18 concerts in Berlin. The Pink Floyd co-founder has been criticized for wearing a uniform (a long leather jacket, gloves, armband, rifle) resembling a Nazi SS soldi … | Continue reading
Sup dog? Sus Dog! The new album from veteran electronic producer Clark, born Christopher Stephen Clark, is out today. It’s executive produced by Thom Yorke, who also plays bass on the album and sings on “Medicine.” As Yorke explained when the album was announced back in January, … | Continue reading
Sophie Payten, the Australian musician known as Gordi, released her Inhuman EP last year. Since then, she’s played some Australian shows with Bon Iver, dropped the one-off single “Broke Scene,” and covered Augie March’s “One Crowded Hour.” Today, we get another cover version from … | Continue reading
Kevin Parker has been in our lives for a long time. It’s been more than a decade since Tame Impala — who still basically presented as a rock band back then — released their sophomore album Lonerism. I’m not sure it’s fair to call Lonerism Tame Impala’s breakout, since 2010’s Inne … | Continue reading
Tina Turner, the legendary singer known around the world as the “Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll,” has died. “Tina Turner, the ‘Queen of Rock’n Roll’ has died peacefully today at the age of 83 after a long illness in her home in Küsnacht near Zurich, Switzerland,” her family said in a sta … | Continue reading
Oxnard thrashers Dead Heat are masters of heavy breakneck riffage, and they’ve been glorious lights on the hardcore scene for the past half-decade. Two years ago, the band released their album World At War, and it absolutely ruled. This summer, they’ll follow it up with a new EP … | Continue reading
We’ve Got A File On You features interviews in which artists share the stories behind the extracurricular activities that dot their careers: acting gigs, guest appearances, random internet ephemera, etc. | Continue reading
Morgan Wallen’s new album One Thing At A Time came out in March, and the controversial country singer has spent the past 11 weeks in the #1 spot on the Billboard 200, meaning that he now has spent the most consecutive weeks at #1 in 25 years. As Billboard notes, the last album to … | Continue reading
Foo Fighters have revealed that Josh Freese is their new drummer, taking over for Taylor Hawkins, who passed away last year. The news was officially revealed in a livestream event that took place on Sunday ahead of Foo Fighters’ extensive run of live dates that are planned for th … | Continue reading
Foo Fighters are releasing a new album, But Here We Are, in a couple weeks, and they’re getting ready to embark of a full-fledged tour, both firsts since the death of their longtime drummer Taylor Hawkins last year. The band has performed a couple times since Hawkins’ death, at t … | Continue reading
Billy Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins has offered an opinion on AI. Sitting down for an interview with DJ Zach Sang earlier in May, Corgan spoke about how “AI will change music forever. Because once young artists figure out that they can use AI to game the system and write them a … | Continue reading
Last month, the omnivorous Montreal dance producer Kaytranada and the adventurous Portland rapper Aminé announced that they’d formed a new duo called, naturally enough, KAYTRAMINÉ. The combination makes perfect sense. Both of them make lively, inventive music, and both of them se … | Continue reading
Hopscotch Music Festival is returning to Raleigh this fall from September 7-9. Headliners include an indie/emo-rock who’s who: Pavement, Alvvays, Margo Price, Denzel Curry, and Japanese Breakfast, Dinosaur Jr., Sunny Day Real Estate, American Football, Soccer Mommy, and more. | Continue reading
Next week, the always-solid California rap journeyman Jay Worthy will release Nothing Bigger Than The Program, a new album produced entirely by the legendary Roc Marciano. The first two singles were both promising: “Underground Legend,” which features an on-fire Bun B, and “Wake … | Continue reading
In 2001, Sunn O)))’s Stephen O’Malley teamed up with Blind Idiot God’s Tim Wyskida and former OLD members James Plotkin and Alan Dubin to form a kind of drone-metal supergroup called Khanate. Over four albums in the ’00s, Khanate made some deeply heavy and experimental music. Ev … | Continue reading
Andy Rourke, the musician best known for his time as the bassist for the Smiths, has died. Rourke’s former bandmate and childhood friend Johnny Marr announced the news of Rourke’s passing early this morning. Rourke was 59. | Continue reading
Peter Gabriel has kicked off his i/o tour with a show at Poland’s Tauron Arena in Krakow on Thursday night. It’s his first full show in nearly nine years, since he wrapped up his Back To Front tour in 2014. | Continue reading
Chicago’s gigantic and vaguely-centric Riot Fest is coming back is coming back to Douglass Park in September. Once again, it’s got a lineup that’s utterly stuffed with big names. This year’s biggest name is probably the Cure. The festival also has Death Cab For Cutie and the Post … | Continue reading
The rapper Slowthai, real name Tyron Frampton, appeared in court on Tuesday to face two charges of rape, as The Guardian reports. Slowthai appeared virtually at a court in Oxfordshire, charged with oral and vaginal penetration of a woman without her consent, an incident which all … | Continue reading
The New York underground rap lifer Wiki makes a whole lot of music. In 2021, he released Half God, a triumphant album produced entirely by Navy Blue. Wiki followed that one last year by teaming up with producer Subjxt 5 on the album Cold Cuts and by releasing One More, a collabor … | Continue reading
Later this year, the London trio Girl Ray are releasing a new album, Prestige. It includes “Everybody’s Saying That,” “Give Me Your Love,” and “Hold Tight” — that last one made our best songs of the week list when it came out last month. Today, they’re sharing the breezy new sing … | Continue reading
At the end of the week, Hannah Jadagu is releasing her debut album, Aperture, and we’ve heard a good deal of it already: “Admit It,” “Say It Now,” “What You Did,” and “Warning Sign.” Today, the New York-based songwriter is sharing one more advance single from the album, the sharp … | Continue reading
London street-punk stompers the Chisel released their debut album Retaliation in 2021, and they’ve stayed busy since then. Last year, they teamed up with Mexican oi band Mess for a split 7″. This year, they contributed the song “Punisher” to the hardcore compilation The Extermina … | Continue reading
On June 22, Liz Phair’s landmark debut album Exile In Guyville will celebrate its 30th anniversary. To celebrate the moment, Phair has announced a fall anniversary tour where she’ll play the album in its entirety (along with some additional hits, promises a press release). The to … | Continue reading
Last year, Chris Farren, a handsome and distinguished gentleman of the pop-punk persuasion, surprise-released his album Death Don’t Wait (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack), an instrumental score to a spy thriller that does not exist. Today, Farren has announced plans to follow … | Continue reading
Growing up in the United States, a country that likes to tell itself stories about it being the center of the world, I cannot say that I grew up listening to Mexican regional music. Part of this is purely circumstantial and cultural; my own background is Jewish, so, when they wer … | Continue reading
Este Haim is one of the executive soundtrack producers for the new National Geographic show A Small Light, a dramatic miniseries about the life of Anne Frank. For the soundtrack, Haim has recruited a bunch of her contemporaries, and they’ve covered songs from the World War II era … | Continue reading
Over the last couple years, Muncie Girls’ Lande Hekt has released two solo albums, 2021’s Going To Hell and 2022’s House Without A View. Today, she’s releasing a new single, “Pottery Class,” a lovely, chiming one about how hard it can be to find a place where you feel welcome. | Continue reading
This week, Erin Birgy is releasing a new Mega Bog album, End Of Everything. She’s shared three singles from it so far, “The Clown,” “Love Is,” and “Cactus People.” Today, Birgy is back with one more track from the album, “All And Everything,” which comes with a video filmed by Bi … | Continue reading
Kieran Hebden, better known as Four Tet, and guitar virtuoso William Tyler have teamed up to share a new song, “Darkness, Darkness,” as the latest installment of the singles series from Sylvan Esso’s Psychic Hotline label. This is the first-ever collab between the electronic pion … | Continue reading
Travis Scott has previewed his fourth studio album Utopia for the Houston Astros. In a clip filmed at Minute Maid Park in Houston, Scott can be seen sitting in the locker room talking about Utopia, telling KRIV Sports Director Mark Berman, “It’s on the way now, Mark.” Scott also … | Continue reading