Lionlimb announced a new album, Spiral Groove, last month. It came with a glowing endorsement from Angel Olsen, which makes sense because the project’s (now) sole leader Stewart Bronaugh plays in Olsen’s backing band. We’ve heard “Loveland Pass” from it already and now we’re getting the album’s second single, “Nothing,” which is about trying to […]
Magdalena Bay – “You Lose!”
Magdalena Bay are releasing their impressive retro-pop volley Mercurial World in a few weeks. The duo has shared “Chaeri” and “Secrets (Your Fire)” from it so far. Today, they’re back with “You Lose!,” a thumping and distorted track that they say “is about trying to be a musician and feeling like time for success is […]
KIRA – “The Ghosts”
Kira Roessler is something of a legend — she was in Black Flag during their heyday, playing on four full-lengths and at countless live shows during her two-plus years in the band, one of the few women in the early hardcore scene. After she left, she linked up with the Minutemen’s Mike Watt, her husband […]
Grouper – “Ode to the blue”
It’s been a few years since Liz Harris released any of the spectral, expansive music that she records under her Grouper moniker. Next month, though, Harris will release Shade, a new album of Grouper songs recorded over the course of 15 years. Harris has already shared the early track “Unclean Mind,” which marked a return […]
Slow Pulp – “In Too Deep” (Sum 41 Cover)
A few months ago, we talked to Sum 41’s Deryck Whibley for the 20th anniversary of “Fat Lip” and in anticipation of the anniversary of his band’s debut album All Killer No Filler. Apparently we were not the only ones with Sum 41 on our minds! The Chicago Band To Watch Slow Pulp, who released […]
Chvrches – “Cry Little Sister” (Gerard McMann Cover)
Last month, Chvrches released their new album Screen Violence. The group got the Cure’s Robert Smith to guest on lead single “How Not To Drown,” and they remained in a gothed-out ’80s zone all through the album’s rollout, covering Echo & The Bunnymen and trading remixes with John Carpenter. It seems like they’re not out […]
Wiki – “Promised” (Feat. MIKE) (Prod. Navy Blue)
Well, here’s a noteworthy convergence of underground rap talent. Wiki, the one-time Ratking ringleader who has become a New York hip-hop mainstay, is releasing his Half God album in a couple weeks. The entire thing is produced by LA native Navy Blue, the pro skateboarder, Pratt Institute student, and childhood friend of Earl Sweatshirt who […]
Adia Victoria – “You Was Born To Die” (Feat. Jason Isbell, Margo Price, & Kyshona Armstrong)
In a couple of days, the Nashville singer Adia Victoria will release A Southern Gothic, her new album of cinematic, atmospheric blues. Victoria recorded the LP last year during quarantine, while listening to old Alan Lomax field recordings and thinking about the history of American music. We’ve already posted the early single “Magnolia Blues,” and […]
Hand Habits – “Graves”
Next month, Meg Duffy is releasing a new Hand Habits album, Fun House, the follow-up to 2019’s wonderful placeholder. We’ve heard two songs from it so far, “Aquamarine” and “No Difference,” and today Duffy is sharing another one, the hushed and still “Graves.” Featuring backing vocals from SASAMI, the album’s producer, it’s a mournful yarn […]
Nas Ft. Blxst “Brunch On Sundays”
Nas brings Virgo season with his “Brunch On Sundays”, the latest music video off his critically-acclaimed album, King Disease 2. In honor of his birthday (Sep. 14), the Omar Jones-directed clip finds Esco celebrating with friends with brunch on a rooftop of West Hollywood’s Catch. The gathering, which includes guests Blxst, Nas’ daughter Destiny Jones, […]