This year’s Newport Folk Festival is currently in the midst in Rhode Island. The lineup has Hozier, Elle King, Gillian Welch, Brittany Howard, Orville Peck, and more. And Beck gave a surprise covers-heavy performance on Friday. Beck opened up with Dylan’s 1965 track “Maggie’s Farm,” which Dylan himself first debuted to open his set at […]
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Faye Webster, Fabiana Palladino, & Goat Girl Have Simlish Songs In The Sims 4 Lovestruck Expansion Pack
Today, artists like Faye Webster, Fabiana Palladino, and Goat Girl have done the important work of translating one of its songs into Simlish, the nonsense language used by the characters in the video game franchise The Sims. In the process, they join a long, proud tradition of indie-adjacent musicians doing Simlish songs — a tradition […]
Navy Blue – “Low Threshold”
Sage Elsesser, the rapper, producer, skateboarder, artist, and model known as Navy Blue, will have a new album out very soon. This morning Elsesser revealed that Memoirs In Armour, his first independent release since signing with Def Jam in 2021, will be out one week from today. He also shared lead single “Low Threshold,” a […]
Stream Nightshift’s Perfectly Imperfect New Guitar-Pop Album Homosapien
The Glasgow band Nightshift play a carefully honed yet slightly off-kilter form of indie rock, matching straightforward guitar-pop in the post-punk and college rock lineage with vocals from Eothen Stearn that sound like a more lithe and agile Nico or a more melodious Florence Shaw from Dry Cleaning. Stearn’s keyboards add a lot of color […]
Lil Yachty & Ian – “Hate Me”
I guess the time has come to acknowledge Ian, our latest white rap YouTube phenomenon. Ian is a good-looking 19-year-old from Dallas who dresses preppy and raps in the melodic gurgle-blur Atlanta trap style. His sound is a perfectly OK hybrid of stuff like Young Thug and Chief Keef, and it’s nowhere near as obnoxiously […]
Ice Spice’s Debut Album Y2K! Is Both Inessential And Fun
It finally happened. Ice Spice released an album. Nearly two years after she first blew up with the viral hit “Munch,” Ice Spice has been through wave after wave of internet fame and backlash. She’s made a bunch of hits, nabbed herself a Dunkin Donuts signature drink, and logged a whole lot of Super Bowl […]
“I Was Singing About The ‘Film Of Sky,’ Whatever That Is”: ML Buch Brings Her Singular Sound World To LA
This was Buch’s first time in LA. While everyone else tuned out the sound of the homeless person on the street, Buch listened distractedly, her eyes bulging. They narrowed as a Tesla Cybertruck drove by. She shook her head in its direction, and simply said “no,” then went back to eating her Cubano sandwich with […]
My Brightest Diamond – “Have You Ever Seen An Angel”
My Brightest Diamond last released an album in 2018 with A Million And One. Today, the project of New York singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Shara Nova is announcing its follow-up, Fight The Real Terror. The single “Have You Ever Seen An Angel” is out now. “‘Have You Ever Seen An Angel’ is a reflection on some […]
Calvin Harris & Ellie Goulding – “Free”
Last weekend, Ellie Goulding made an appearance at Calvin Harris’ performance in Ibiza and the pair debuted a new song titled “Free.” Since then, they’re been teasing the track with clips on social media, and now it’s finally out. “Free” is far from Harris and Goulding’s first collaboration. They joined forces for 2023’s “Miracle,” 2014’s […]