Not long after they released their latest album Phantom Island back in June, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard announced they were taking their massive catalog off of Spotify — one of many such cases this year. Now, the unfortunately inevitable has happened: Somebody impersonated King Gizz on Spotify, allegedly using generative AI to do so. […]
Album Of The Week: This Is Lorelei Holo Boy
Double Double Whammy 2025 Nate Amos might be an actual genius. The NYC-based musician has been humbly but voluminously demonstrating his talents for years, piling up records across a range of aliases for some of the best labels in independent music. He partnered with Rachel Brown to make deadpan mad-scientist avant-pop in Water From Your […]
Dry Cleaning – “Let Me Grow And You’ll See The Fruit”
Dry Cleaning will kick off 2026 with the release of their third album Secret Love. We’ve heard “Hit My Head All Day” and “Cruise Ship Designer,” and today the post-punks are sharing the sprawling spoken-word flourish “Let Me Grow And You’ll See The Fruit” along with some sad news. The group was supposed to be […]
Guv – “Warmer Than Gold”
Warmer Than Gold, the new album from Guv (fka Young Guv), is arriving next month. Ben Cook announced the return of his power-pop band with the lead single “Let Your Hands Go,” and today he’s back with the album’s title track. Cook has evidently been aiming for a psychedelic Britpop inspired on this record, and […]
The 10 Best Metal Albums Of 2025
I didn’t think too hard about dedicating the second-ever edition of this column to Ragne Wahlquist. The late Heavy Load frontman left an indelible mark on heavy metal, in his native Sweden and beyond, so writing about him after learning he’d died unexpectedly at the age of 69 just made sense. I stand behind that […]
Primal Scream Break Out Live Rarities At XTRMNTR 25th Anniversary Show In London
Primal Scream released their aggro electronic rock masterpiece XTRMNTR in 2000, which means it turned 25 this year. The band celebrated that quarter-century anniversary tonight with a full-album performance at the Roundhouse in London. For the main set, Bobby Gillespie and his band — which, sadly, did not feature the dearly departed Mani or XTRMNTR […]
Sleep Token Unleash Debut Coloring Book
Last year, the masked, anonymous, post-Ghost British quasi-metal duo Sleep Token merited a great deal of discussion in Eli Enis’ great Stereogum piece about the new class of stadium-metal acts. Since then, Sleep Token have had a banner year. They scored their first-ever #1 album with Even In Arcadia. They landed three songs on the […]
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The 10 Best Jazz Albums Of 2025
So… what kind of a year was 2025 for jazz? Well, it marked the centennial of saxophonist Gene Ammons, drummer Roy Haynes, critic Nat Hentoff, pianist Jutta Hipp, saxophonist Art Pepper, pianist Oscar Peterson, drummer Dom Um Romão, and all-around performer Sammy Davis, Jr. Haynes almost lived to see it; he died last year at […]
Golden Globes 2026: Nominees Include Nick Cave, Jonny Greenwood, HUNTR/X
The cinematic awards race kicked off in earnest this morning, when Marlon Wayans and Skye P. Marshall announced the nominees for next year’s Golden Globe Awards. As usual, the nominations included a bunch of big musical names, and not just in the Best Original Song and Best Original Score categories. Because I’m writing this blog […]