In May, Sublime released “Feel Like That,” their first new material in 28 years. On Monday, the band — now fronted by Bradley Nowell’s son Jakob alongside original members Bud Gaugh and Eric Wilson — played that song on The Tonight Show in the first national TV performance for any iteration of Sublime. “I love […]
Water From Your Eyes Cover Chumbawamba, Third Eye Blind, And “Adele In The Style Of The Cure” On New EP
In our recent profile of Water From Your Eyes, the duo spoke about an upcoming covers EP, recorded during the same sessions that yielded last year’s Matador debut Everyone’s Crushed. We now know it’s called MP3 Player 1 and it’s coming out at the end of this week. There’s a Chumbawamba song (not “Tubthumping”), a […]
Stream Sleepwalk’s Phenomenal New EP Out Of Focus
Hailing from Chicago, Sleepwalk make an urgent mix of shoegaze and post-hardcore — or, as they put it, “heavy music for the light hearted.” They have three albums under their belt, and on Friday they unveiled their phenomenal new EP, Out Of Focus. Out Of Focus is as fast as it is hazy, as energizing […]
Webbed Wing – “Tortuga”
Webbed Wing’s third album, Vol. III, arrives this Friday, and it’s shaping up to be fantastic. Over the past few months, the Philly band has unveiled the singles “Further,” “Burn It Down,” and “My Front Door,” and today they’re back with “Tortuga.” “Tortuga” is anchored by a great, corrosive riff, and it features an invigorating […]
Watch Charli XCX Bring Out Caroline Polachek To Sing “Welcome To My Island” And Do The Macarena At Roskilde
Brat summer continues: Roskilde is going down in Denmark, and both Charli XCX and Caroline Polachek are on the lineup. Naturally, the “Von Dutch” singer invited the other pop star to her set, and the pair performed their and George Daniel’s remix of “Welcome To My Island” and danced the Macarena. Charli and Polachek previously […]
Watch Sting 3.0 Cover “Spill The Wine” With Eric Burdon In Athens
Earlier this year, Sting kicked off his Sting 3.0 tour with his “power trio” of drummer Chris Maas and guitarist Dominic Miller and a setlist full of deep cuts. On Friday, the former Police frontman performed in Greece and was joined by Eric Burdon of the Animals for a cover of his and War’s “Spill […]
Blur Drummer Dave Rowntree Loses Parliamentary Election
Yesterday, Keir Starmer became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in a sweeping, historic election that ended 14 years of Conservative party rule. The UK’s various third parties made big gains, while Labour won more than 410 Parliamentary seats — a total apocalypse for the extremely unpopular Tories. But one Labour politician who didn’t win […]
JB Dunckel – “Corps échangés”
Earlier this year, Air celebrated 25 years of their debut album, Moon Safari. JB Dunckel, the co-founder of the French band, recently announced his first ballet score, Möbius Morphosis; the lead single “Corps échangés” is out today. “This music is first and foremost at the service of a choreography whose boldness, acrobatic grace and energy […]
BG Ordered Submit New Songs For Government Approval As Parole Condition
New Orleans rapper BG, one of the stars of Cash Money Records’ huge run in the late ’90s and early ’00s, has been ordered to submit all future music to the federal government before any of it is produced or promoted. It’s a condition of his parole, and it’s actually a significant step down from […]
Wilco And The Art Of The Music Festival
As a four-piece with Bailey Wollowitz on drums and Al Nardo on second guitar — check out Stereogum’s Band To Watch profile on the duo’s own band fantasy of a broken heart — Water From Your Eyes were still brilliant (and brilliantly noisy), with Brown looking a bit like Joey Ramone with their black hair […]