In November, we declared Boygenius our Artists Of The Year, following their massive releases the record and the rest. Last month, the indie trio won their first Grammys, and they reached trivia fame by serving as a theme in today’s Jeopardy! episode. The categories of the game show included “Boy Genius,” “Bridgers,” “Baker,” and “The […]
Girl In Red – “Doing It Again Baby”
Marie Ulven is getting ready to release the new Girl In Red album I’m Doing It Again Baby!. Last month, the Norwegian pop singer shared “Too Much,” and today she’s releasing the title track. Girl In Red has evolved a lot since its conception; her hits “we fell in love in october” and “i wanna […]
Vampire Weekend Talk OGWAU Influences, Ska, Real World Vs. Road Rules On New Podcast Vampire Campfire
Ezra Koenig has always insisted that Time Crisis, his conversational “online radio show” on Apple Music, is not a podcast, despite that show’s big podcast energy. Now, with Vampire Weekend readying new album Only God Was Above Us, Koenig and bandmates Chris Baio and Chris Tomson have released the first episode of Vampire Campfire, which […]
We’ve Got A File On You: Kim Gordon
In your memoir, Girl In A Band, you revisit different eras of your life and your experiences within your different bands. Were there any memories that you had almost forgotten about until sitting down to write your book? GORDON: Probably. It’s not like I remember it now though. Writing does help me think, though, and […]
Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes Turns 20
They were bigger than the room. That’s what I remember. TV On The Radio came through Baltimore a couple of months after they released their full-length debut Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes, and they played at a DIY venue that I’m pretty sure was a converted auto-body shop. (That venue, like so many other Baltimore […]
Yaya Bey – “sir princess bad bitch”
Last month, the Queens musician Yaya Bey announced a new album, Ten Fold, her follow-up to 2022’s Remember Your North Star and its 2023 companion EP Exodus The North Star. She’s shared “chasing the bus,” “crying through my teeth,” and “the evidence” from it so far, and today she’s back with another single, the silkily […]
Kurt Russell Is Still Pretty Sensitive About Accidentally Destroying A Priceless Martin Guitar In The Hateful Eight
Kurt Russell has been a movie star for longer than most of us have been alive. He’s a beloved pillar of the Hollywood establishment, and he’s got more than a few classics on his resume. (The Thing? Come on.) But a long public life comes with its share of regrets, and some of those regrets […]
Wild Pink – “Air Drumming Fix You”
Wild Pink have released a new single, “Air Drumming Fix You,” their first for Fire Talk Records. The John Ross-led project’s most recent album was 2022’s ILYSM, and last year he teamed up with Laura Wolf for a new collaboration called Lilts. “Air Drumming Fix You” is an warm extended poetic ramble, on that Advance […]
Watch Charli XCX Debut SOPHIE Tribute Song “So I” At Billboard Women In Music
Charli XCX is getting ready to release her new album Brat, and she dropped the single “Von Dutch” last week. We don’t know too much about the new album just yet, but last night Charli debuted another track that’ll presumably appear on the LP. “So Do I” is her tribute to her late friend and […]
Amen Dunes – “Boys”
The rollout for Amen Dunes’ new album Death Jokes kicked off swimmingly with “Purple Land,” a rich text that landed on our 5 Best Songs Of The Week list. It continues today with “Boys,” the album’s second single. This one makes great use of electronic beats around a warm yet bleary folk-rock spirit, like a […]