West Midlands-born, London-based experimental/electronic/production duo Delmer Darion first broke through with their highly conceptual 2020 debut album Morning Pageants. Now, Tom Lenton and Oliver Jack are back with more high-concept material. Featuring Spencer Radcliffe and Martha Skye Murphy, “First Photograph Of The Nebula In Orion” is an exploratory, multi-faceted journey that sounds like listening to […]
Silver Moth – “Mother Tongue”
Last September, Mogwai’s Stuart Braithwaite released a memoir, Spaceships Over Glasgow, and the year prior, the Scottish post-rock greats released the Mercury Prize-nominated album As The Love Continues. Now, Braithwaite is part of a new project called Silver Moth, which also features Elisabeth Elektra, Evi Vine, Steven Hill, members of Abrasive Trees, Burning House, and Prosthetic […]
Anti-Ticketmaster Crusader Zach Bryan Enlists Theo Von And Kevin From The Office To Explain New Ticketing Strategy
Tickets will range from $40 to $130, with service fees between $10 and $20 per ticket, with no hidden fees or dynamic pricing. Buyers will be limited to four tickets per event (two for Red Rocks), and for a small handful of dates not available on the AXS platform will be non-transferrable. Von clarifies that […]
From The Dancehall To The Battlefield And Beyond With Jason Moran
Pianist Jason Moran does things on his own terms. Since leaving Blue Note Records almost a decade ago (his final album for them was 2014’s All Rise: A Joyful Elegy For Fats Waller), he’s become the Artistic Director for Jazz at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, and started Yes Records, releasing his own music […]
Kali Uchis – “I Wish You Roses”
It’s been a couple years since Kali Uchis’ last album, 2020’s Sin Miedo (del Amor y Otros Demonios), but she’s kept busy. She’s playing a bunch of festivals this year and has been teasing a new project, which started with “No Hay Ley” last fall. Today, she’s back with a new single, “I Wish You […]
The Van Pelt Announce First New Album In 26 Years
The New York City rock band the Van Pelt have announced Artisans & Merchants, their first new album in 26 years. It’s the follow-up to 1997’s Sultans Of Sentiment, and it’ll be released in March. The band has occasionally been active over the past decade, putting out an album’s worth of rarities, Imaginary Third, in […]
Phoebe Bridgers Is Also On The New Shame Album
Big week for Phoebe Bridgers. (Aren’t they all?) This week, Bridgers announced a new boygenius album; she’s also got featured spots on just-announced albums by the National and Arlo Parks. And in a new NME cover story, Shame drummer Charlie Forbes reveals that she also appears on their forthcoming album Food For Worms, which is […]
Alison Goldfrapp & Claptone – “Digging Deeper”
For the past couple decades, Alison Goldfrapp has been one-half of Goldfrapp, the synth-pop duo that bears her last name. She’s ventured out under her own name a couple of times for featured spots, most recently on a pair of tracks from Röyksopp, but today she’s shared her first official solo single, “Digging Deeper.” It’s […]
Sam Gendel – “Anywhere” (112 Cover Feat. Meshell Ndegeocello)
LA jazz performer and producer Sam Gendel is an everywhere-all-at-once sort of musician. Over the last few years, he’s collaborated with Vampire Weekend, contributed to Animal Collective’s For The Bids: The Birdsong Project, covered “Old Town Road,” and released a bunch of his own albums (the most recent one being last year’s blueblue, where every […]
Billie Marten – “This Is How We Move”
Seven years ago, when she was 17 years old, we named Billie Marten an Artist To Watch. For the better part of a decade, she’s been proving us right. The English folk-pop singer-songwriter will return in April with her fourth album, Drop Cherries, in which cherries are a metaphor for offering someone your love and […]