This weekend, Damon Albarn makes his long-awaited SNL debut with Gorillaz. Ryan Gosling will serve as host, and the promo came out today, with the English frontman mostly stone-faced with no lines. Jamie Hewlett, the illustrator of Gorillaz, stood beside Albarn equally stone-faced as Gosling and Ashley Padilla cracked jokes. Albarn and Hewlett don’t break […]
Radiohead, Not Just LCD Soundsystem, Inspired Harry Styles’ New Era
Tonight Harry Styles will release Kiss All The Time. Disco, Occasionally. In some of the earlier interviews pegged to the new album cycle, Styles mentioned the music was inspired in part by getting to go out dancing and be an audience member at shows himself after his latest tour wrapped up. One such artist who […]
Loukeman – “Elktorn” & “All I Could Think Of”
Toronto-based producer Loukeman has been pretty lowkey since his last album, 2024’s Sd-2. Over the past couple years he’s worked with A$AP Rocky and PinkPantheress but hasn’t released anything solely his own. Today that changes. He’s returned with two new singles, “Elktorn” and “All I Could Think Of.” They’re both steely electronic music that makes […]
Stream Star Moles’ Striking, Charismatic New Album Highway To Hell
Star Moles is the “sci-fi DIY wi-fi band” of Emily Moales, a New Hampshire native posted up in Philly. Last week she followed up her lo-fi 2025 mini-album Snack Monster with a more produced offering called Highway To Hell that merges ’70s folk-pop aesthetics with 2020s Bandcamp sensibilities. Friend of the site Josh Terry recommended […]
Ronboy – “I Am Only Playing”
Julia Laws, the LA-based singer, songwriter, and producer known as Ronboy, has been in Matt Berninger’s orbit in recent years, and the National frontman guested on her single “Disaster” last year. She’s got a new song called “I Am Only Playing” out today, a preview of this summer’s Get Rich EP. You should listen to […]
Maximilian Announces Diurnals EP: Hear “I Know You”
Brighton singer-songwriter Maximilian has announced a new EP Diurnals, out May 8, and shared a new single. “I Know You” is a cozy acoustic-guitar-driven track with piano and fiddle embellishments. It was recorded live with no click track and produced at Farm Road studios with Bobby Smyth, as are all of the songs on the […]
Cowboy Hunters – “Shag Slags Not Flags”
Glasgow-based musicians Megan Pollock and Desmond Johnston make up the band Cowboy Hunters. Their last single “Have A Pint” is an aggressive, circus-like romp inspired by the Lady Gaga interview clip-turned-meme. It’s absurd. It makes me laugh, but the music is so weirdly aggressive it makes me want to smash something, or maybe jump into […]
Ebbb – “Home Ground”
We’ve got a new dark horse contender in the hunt for the “worst band name I’ve ever seen in my life” championship. The London trio Ebbb came out of the Windmill scene, and they’re currently generating a whole lot of buzz with a series of singles on Ninja Tune records. The name is bad, but […]
Danny L Harle’s Music-First Manifesto
There are magical objects scattered around Danny L Harle’s studio in Hackney. A small dark silver knight wedges himself between speakers and computer monitors; a star-cloaked figurine of Merlin holds a bright orange flame aloft. Nearby are relics from the producer’s own pop mythology: a black baseball cap from Caroline Polachek’s Pang, a red cornucopia […]
Cash Cobain – “Wish”
Last year, sexy drill innovator Cash Cobain worked with big stars like Justin Bieber and Drake, and he took his own horny party music into psychedelic, aqueous zones on singles like “Trippin On A Yacht” and “Hoes Be Mad.” Every time I write about this guy, I feel like I’m gooping on ya grinch, but […]