Pandemic time is all warped, so even though it’s understandable if you can’t remember whether Black Country, New Road’s debut album For The First Time came out this year or sometime long before this year. In fact, it was released Feb. 5 of this year. So when the British art-rock band drops their next album […]
Hear Another Great Track From Meters Guitarist Leo Nocentelli’s Lost ’70s Folk Album
Last month, reissue label Light In The Attic announced that they had uncovered a lost folk album by the Meters guitarist Leo Nocentelli, which he recorded in the ’70s but shelved to focus on his main band. After the recordings made their way from New Orleans to a Southern California storage facility over the decades, […]
Cate Le Bon – “Running Away”
Cate Le Bon has been great for a long time, but 2019’s Reward cemented her reputation for greatness. So it is fantastic to learn that Le Bon has a new LP on the way this winter. It’s called Pompeii. Le Bon wrote it mostly on bass and recorded it with co-producer Samur Khouja in an […]
James Blake & Slowthai Team Up For New Version Of “Funeral” & Perform It On Fallon
On Friday, James Blake released his drizzly, downbeat new album Friends That Break Your Heart. The album features appearances from stars like SZA and J.I.D. It does not feature the malevolent and intense UK rapper Slowthai, but Blake and Slowthai did record a version of the Friends That Break Your Heart track “Funeral” together. They […]
Sondre Lerche – “Dead Of The Night”
Norwegian indie-pop lifer Sondre Lerche has shared an epic new song “Dead Of The Night.” Clocking in at just over 10 minutes, it’s an expansive follow-up to his 2021 EP, King of Letting Go, and 2020’s Patience. Lerche shared an equally wide-ranging statement on “Dead of the Night,” which you can read in full below: […]
Jeff Tweedy – “C’mon America” & “UR-60 Unsent”
The latest Sub Pop Singles Club 7″ features two new solo tracks from prolific Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy. The A-side is “C’mon America,” a wry classic rocker “from an unreleased group of songs with mostly sci-fi lyrics.” The B-side is “UR-60 Unsent,” one of those drowsy, deconstructed Tweedy ballads, billed as “a pitiful tale of […]
Sally Shapiro – “Forget About You”
Sally Shapiro, the synthpop duo of Swedish producer Johan Agebjörn and the singer pseudonymously also known as Sally Shapiro, returned this summer with the single “Fading Away,” their first new music since they supposedly called it quits in 2016. And today, they’ve announced a whole new album. That album, Sad Cities, will be out early […]
Conway The Machine – “Piano Love” (Prod. The Alchemist)
Conway really is a machine. The Griselda rapper has already released two full-length albums this year, La Maquina and the Big Ghost LTD collab If It Bleeds It Can Be Killed. He’s already announced the next one, God Don’t Make Mistakes, his debut album for Eminem’s Shady Records. And today, he’s sharing its lead single. […]
Stream Glean’s Hooky, Fuzzy New Hardcore EP Things We Must Embrace
Last year, just before the pandemic hit, the young San Diego hardcore band Glean released their demo. Glean’s timing wasn’t the best, but that demo showed a ton of promise. Glean’s sound was melodic and emotive, and it made me reach back to the early ’90s for comparison points like Sugar and Quicksand. Today, Glean […]
Stream London Punk Band Game’s Frantic, Feverish New EP Legerdemain
On the same day that the Chisel and Big Cheese both put out new music, we’ve now got another ripper from another UK punk band. Game — the London punks, not the former G-Unit member — released their debut album No One Wins in 2019. The band features Fucked Up drummer Jonah Falco, a man […]