haha same is a new project made up of Frankie Cosmos’ Greta Kline and Stolen Jars’ Cody Fitzgerald. They just released their first songs via Sub Pop’s Singles Club, “Guess What To Do” and “Calling It A Night.” “A word that kept coming up when we talked about collaborating was ‘easy,’” Kline shared in a […]
Watch Marika Hackman Cover boygenius’ ‘Not Strong Enough”
There’s a scene in The Bear season two where Richie apologetically tells his daughter, “I love Taylor Swift, too. I just needed a break.” That’s been me with boygenius lately. I recently had to ban boygenius — group records and solo stuff — from the car because my daughter would otherwise never play anything else. […]
Charlotte Day Wilson – “I Don’t Love You”
In 2021, Charlotte Day Wilson released her debut album Alpha. Today, the Toronto R&B musician has announced its follow-up Cyan Blue and shared “I Don’t Love You” with a visual directed by Dani Aphrodite. “This song is meant to remind us that losing love & leaving can be just as inspiring as finding it,” Wilson […]
The 10 Best MGMT Songs
In retrospect, the fates of indie rock’s Class Of 2008 panned out much stranger than anticipated. At or around the final turn of the 2000s, three bands made the indie-to-major crossover in highly visible fashion: MGMT, Passion Pit, and Chairlift, all coincidentally signed to the same huge hub of Columbia. Following the wispy and gently […]
Shannon & The Clams – “Bean Fields”
Last month, Shannon And The Clams announced The Moon Is In The Wrong Place, their new album that they started working on following the tragic death of bandleader Shannon Shaw’s fiancé Joe Haener. They shared “The Moon Is In The Wrong Place” at the time, and today they’re releasing “Bean Fields” with a music video […]
Isobel Campbell – “4316”
Isobel Campbell was partly responsible for many of the best moments on early Belle And Sebastian records. She left that band in 2002, and she’s put together a pretty great solo career, often working with her late collaborator Mark Lanegan. Today, Campbell has announced plans to follow her last solo album, 2020’s There Is No […]
Ellis – “What I Know Now”
Last month, the Canadian musician Ellis announced her sophomore album, Now Place That Feels Like, and shared “Obliterate Me.” Today, she’s back with a new single, “What I Know Now,” a song about how shitty the music industry is. “I didn’t realize that when I signed that dotted line/ I was giving away a part […]
The High Llamas – “Sisters Friends” (Feat. Rae Morris)
Next month, Sean O’Hagan’s long-running sophisticated avant-pop project the High Llamas will release the new album Hey Panda. O’Hagan wrote the tracks during lockdown, under the influence of TikTok, and we’ve already posted the title track and “Toriafan.” Now, the High Llamas have shared another single, and it’s a duet with the UK singer-songwriter Rae […]
Watch The Beaches Make Their Late Night TV Debut On Jimmy Kimmel Live!
The Toronto rock band the Beaches have been around for over a decade, making punchy rock songs, and they’ve been popular in Canada for a while, winning Breakthrough Group Of The Year at the Juno Awards in 2018 following the release of their debut album Late Show. But they experienced a big spike in popularity […]
Norah Jones – “Staring At The Wall”
Norah Jones is releasing a new album, Visions, in a couple weeks, and she introduced it last month with “Running.” It’s her first album of original songs in four years, since 2020’s Pick Me Up Off The Floor. Jones worked on the album alongside Leon Michels of El Michels Affair. Today, she’s back with a […]