A few weeks ago, King Krule played some live shows where he was selling some flexi-discs featuring new songs. Today, Archy Marshall has announced a new King Krule album called Space Heavy, his follow-up to 2020’s Man Alive! He wrote it over the past few years while commuting between London and Liverpool, the two cities […]
The Tallest Man On Earth – “Looking For Love”
This week, Swedish singer-songwriter Kristian Matsson aka The Tallest Man On Earth, will release his new album Henry St. We’ve already written about lead single “Every Little Heart” and the project’s title track. Today, Matsson is sharing one more album preview, “Looking For Love,” which comes with a video directed by Jeroen Dankers (who also […]
Bob Dylan Debuts Cover Of Grateful Dead’s “Truckin’” In Tokyo
Bob Dylan has a long history with the Grateful Dead. The two acts toured together in 1987, a putting on collaborative performances that led to the live album Dylan & The Dead. In his recent book The Philosophy Of Modern Song, Dylan wrote about the Dead’s American Beauty highlight “Truckin’,” noting, “It’s got a fantastic […]
Spy – “Big Man”
The Bay Area band Spy makes a raw, fast, frantic form of hardcore punk, and they do it with so much style and charisma that they’ve become one of the biggest bands on the underground in the past few years. Spy formed during the pandemic, and they’ve only been playing shows for a couple of […]
Crumb – “Crushxd”
Before today, the New York indie band Crumb hadn’t released a song in two years. That changes with “Crushxd,” a hallucinatory new track that reminds me a bit of Broadcast and Men I Trust. Produced by Jonathan Rado and Johnscott, the song is inspired by an incident that haunted Crumb’s first big US tour in […]
The Number Ones: Leona Lewis’ “Bleeding Love”
In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. Remember Jesse McCartney? It’s fine if you don’t. Nobody’s judging. McCartney — no relation to any other famous McCartney — was one […]
Ariana Grande Asks Fans To Stop Commenting About Her Appearance
Ariana Grande has posted a TikTok where she speaks directly to fans about the comments she’s been receiving about her appearance. “I just wanted to address your concerns about my body and talk a little bit about what it means to be a person with a body and to be seen and to be paid […]
Juan Wauters – “Modus Operandi” (Feat. Frankie Cosmos)
Uruguayan indie singer-songwriter Juan Wauters has a new album called Wandering Rebel on the way. Today he’s sharing its latest single, a duet with Frankie Cosmos’ Greta Kline called “Modus Operandi.” The song is a string-laden ’70s pop throwback, and it has a video by Fatos Marishta featuring Wauters and Kline wandering Montevideo and NYC […]
Midwife & Vyva Melinkolya – “Miss America”
Next month, Midwife and Angel Diaz, leader of the Louisville screamo band Vyva Melinkolya, will release their new collaborative LP Orbweaving. The two of them met when Diaz came to New Mexico for a recording residency at Madeline Johnston’s studio. We’ve already posted the lush eight-minute lead single “NMP,” and now Midwife and Vyva Melinkolya […]
Jesus Piece Rise Again
It’s two hours before doors and the parking lot of San Diego’s preeminent metal club has turned into a makeshift gym. This is hardly a surprise on a night where Brick By Brick is hosting the World War Tour; all five bands on the bill, from SoundCloud rap opener Trippp Jones to headliner Show Me […]