This week, Westerman is releasing his sophomore album, An Inbuilt Fault, the follow-up to his 2020 debut Your Hero Is Not Dead. He started rolling it out slowly last fall with “Idol; RE-run” and officially announced it back in February with “CSI: Petralona,” and then “Take” followed. Today, he’s back with one last advance preview […]
Alan Palomo – “Nudista Mundial ’89” (Feat. Mac DeMarco)
We are coming up on eight years since Vega Intl. Night School, the last album Alan Palomo released as Neon Indian. In the interim, all he’s given us is 2019’s “Toyota Man,” a pro-immigrant protest song that saw Palomo singing entirely in Spanish for the first time. But lately Palomo has been teasing new music […]
King Krule Announces 2023 Tour Dates
Archy Marshall is releasing a new King Krule album, Space Heavy, at the beginning of June. A few weeks ago, he shared its lead single “Seaforth” and a few weeks before that he handed out some flexi-discs at a run of live shows that featured even more new songs. Now, he’s announced an extensive tour […]
The Number Ones: Pink’s “So What”
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. Does Pink count as a rock star? The term “rock star” has been basically meaningless for as long as I can remember, […]
Watch Caroline Polachek Bring Out Charli XCX, Weyes Blood, & Sudan Archives In LA
Caroline Polachek performed at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles on Saturday night, and she brought along some special guests. Charli XCX came out to perform her remix of the Desire, I Want To Turn Into You single “Welcome To My Island,” which she also did at Coachella. Echoing Charli’s back-up dancers at the festival, […]
Jenn Grant & Bahamas – “All Of This Time”
“All Of This Time” is a new duet between Halifax singer-songwriter Jenn Grant and her Toronto-based peer Bahamas, aka Afie Jurvanen, from Grant’s upcoming album Champagne Problems. The song is a slow, sparse, waltzing love ballad that feels almost timeless in its approach. Here’s what Grant has to say about it: It was so wonderful […]
Bamboozle 2023 Has Been Canceled
From 2003-2012, the New Jersey music festival known as the Bamboozle emerged as a showcase for the rising-and-then-cresting MySpace emo wave, and it was successful enough to spin off sister festivals and the touring Bamboozle Roadshow. (Our own Tom Breihan reflected on his experience at the 2006 edition of the festival in a column a […]
Garbage – “Cities In Dust” (Siouxsie And The Banshees Cover)
Garbage’s contribution to last weekend’s Record Store Day festivities was a new EP called Witness To Your Love. The record backed Garbage’s 2008 rarity “Witness To Your Love” with three previously unreleased tracks: a pair of originals called “Blue Betty” and “Adam And Eve,” both culled from the sessions for 2021’s No Gods, No Masters, […]
Harry Styles And Tom Cruise Ushered James Corden’s Late Late Show Into Final, Blissful Silence
Breathe. You’re OK. It’s done. It’s over. Great Britain’s most insufferable musical-theater dork will no longer darken the American airwaves. We can all pretend the last eight years were a disturbing hallucination, like we all took tainted shrooms and then fell asleep watching Glee highlights on YouTube. There will be no more James Corden Late […]
XTC’s Andy Partridge Has A New Band Called The 3 Clubmen — Hear Their Debut Single “Aviatrix”
Recently, while reflecting on how nice a Kate Bush-style viral comeback would be, XTC’s Andy Partridge said he no longer writes new songs and is “waiting for my music mojo to return, in between researching UFO events.” I guess his music mojo returned? Patridge has a new band called the 3 Clubmen, and their debut […]