Memphis rap legend Juicy J started off as his career as half of the production duo behind the great Three 6 Mafia, and his production work for that group and its various offshoots still casts a huge shadow over rap, both in its underground and arena-level forms. But Juicy has also had some serious success […]
Hear Kelly Clarkson’s Full Studio Cover Of Radiohead’s “Fake Plastic Trees”
Kelly Clarkson sings a lot of covers. In fact, she regularly opens her show by doing so. In semi-recent times alone, we’ve heard her sing everything from “How Soon Is Now?” to “Where Is My Mind?” to “Welcome To The Black Parade.” Now, she’s dropping a whole EP called Kellyoke. Kellyoke features Clarkson singing a […]
Dust Star – “Nothing In My Head”
Dust Star are a new band made up of Justin Jurgens, formerly of Sirs, and Cameron Wisch, who we last heard heading up the short-lived band Cende and before that playing with Porches. Jurgens and Wisch decided to start a band together after an LSD-fueled Halloween night out in Joshua Tree a few years back, […]
King Princess – “Cursed” & “Too Bad”
Back in March, King Princess returned with a new song called “For My Friends,” with promise of a forthcoming album called Hold On Baby. Now that’s official: Hold On Baby will arrive at the end of July. King Princess produced the album alongside a ton of collaborators, including Mark Ronson, Ethan Gruska, Aaron Dessner, Bryce […]
Moor Mother – “Woody Shaw” (Feat. Melanie Charles)
Camae Ayewa is back with the announcement of a new Moor Mother album. It’s called Jazz Codes, and it’s billed as a companion piece to last year’s Black Encyclopedia Of The Air. It’s also out in just a few weeks, at the very beginning of July. “It’s poetry that drives this album,” Ayewa said in […]
Kal Marks – “Ovation”
The Boston band Kal Marks has been a going concern for over a decade now, and for most of that time it was the same three people. But in 2020, the group splintered apart. Leader Carl Shane decided to keep Kal Marks together by rounding up a new band: A Deer A Horse’s Dylan Teggart, […]
Stream awakebutstillinbed & for your health’s Exhilarating Split EP hymns for the scorned
Last month the mercurial emo Band To Watch alums awakebutstillinbed and for your health announced a split EP called hymns for the scorned. This was exciting in theory and even more so in practice based on the pair of songs they shared with the announcement. Now, ahead of the project’s official release date Friday, the […]
Fresh – “Why Do I”
The amped-up UK punks Fresh are releasing a new album, Raise Hell, in a few weeks. They’ve shared a chunk of tracks from it already — “Morgan & Joanne,” “Babyface,” and “Going To Bed” — and today they’re back with another one, the album’s rousing closer “Why Do I,” which churns through transformations in shoutalong […]
Bonny Light Horseman – “California”
The folk supergroup Bonny Light Horseman, formed through gatherings of Justin Vernon and the Dessner brothers’ 37d03d collective, had quite the come-up these last few years, including two Grammy nominations for their 2020 self-titled debut. Now Anaïs Mitchell, Josh Kaufman, and Fruit Bats’ Eric D. Johnson are returning with a second album. It’s called Rolling […]
Belle And Sebastian – “A Bit Of Previous”
Last month, Belle And Sebastian released their first new album in seven years, A Bit Of Previous. Today, they’re sharing a new one-off single: the song the record was named after, which didn’t appear on the album itself. “A Little Bit Of Previous” comes along with a hand-drawn video by Graham Samuels and Henrik Appel. […]