The Pitt, the riveting HBO hospital show, isn’t especially known for its big soundtrack moments. This is not a Grey’s Anatomy situation. The show’s real-time rhythms are stressful and disorienting, to the point where the end of every episode takes me by surprise. It doesn’t need music for its emotional moments, so it never uses […]

A couple of months ago, we learned that Eaux Claires, the festival founded by Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon and the National’s Aaron Dessner, is returning this year. For years, the festival brought extremely cool one-off lineups to Vernon’s Eau Claire, Wisconsin hometown. The festival took 2019 off, and the pandemic made the planned 2020 edition […]

Chvrches leader Lauren Mayberry released her solo debut Vicious Creature in 2024. More recently, Chvches have been back together and working on new music, and they just covered Robert Palmer’s “Addicted To Love” for the Hulu show Tell Me Lies. Now, Mayberry is joining a fellow Scottish indie band on a fun, anthemic new single. […]