Who Is She?, the Seattle indie supergroup featuring members of Tacocat, Chastity Belt, and Lisa Prank, were in the midst of a three-game stint as the house band for new NHL franchise the Seattle Kraken when they performed a Seattle-specific update on Le Tigre’s “My My Metrocard” retitled “My My Orca Card.” The tweaked lyrics […]
Watch Snail Mail Cover Talking Heads’ “This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)” With Mac DeMarco
Last year Snail Mail and Mac DeMarco teamed up on a loosie called “A Cuckhold’s Refrain” under the name Peppermint Patty. Monday, on the fourth night of Lindsey Jordan’s Valentine Fest at Baltimore’s Ottobar — which already yielded an Avril Lavigne cover with Soccer Mommy over the weekend — DeMarco showed up during Snail Mail’s […]
Island Of Love – “Grow” & “Blues 2000”
Island Of Love are the first band signed to Third Man Records London. As the story goes, the London rock trio was the first act besides Jack White himself to play Third Man’s new London venue the Blue Basement, and the label signed them during the first cigarette break after their set. A self-titled album […]
Heriot – “Demure”
Heriot are theoretically a hardcore band, the same way Code Orange and Vein.fm and Jesus Piece are hardcore bands — that is, they sound a whole hell of a lot like a metal band, even a nu-metal band at times. Their instruments tuned so low that each power chord sounds like an entire city block […]
B. Cool-Aid – “Wassup” (Feat. Devin Morrison, Pher, & MoRuf)
Next month, B. Cool-Aid, the duo of rapper Pink Siifu and producer Ahwlee, will release Leather Blvd., their first project together since 2019. We’ve already posted first single “Cnt Go Back (Tell Me),” which features a whole bunch of guests. Today, they’ve followed that single with a new one called “Wassup,” and this one has […]
Gonerfest Announces 2023 Lineup With Osees, Gories, Mummies, & More
The 20th edition of Gonerfest, the ultra-scuzzy garage-rock festival put on by Goner Records, will also celebrate 20 years of the label, one of the world’s foremost purveyors of such tunes. It’s going down Sept. 28 through Oct. 1 at Railgarten in Memphis, with headliners Osees (Thursday), the Gories (Friday), and the Mummies (Saturday). Also […]
Avey Tare – “Invisible Darlings”
Animal Collective’s Avey Tare will release his new solo album 7s at the end of this week. Today he’s sharing one last single to go along with dual lead tracks “The Musical” and “Hey Bog.” Built around a delicately glimmering piano riff, “Invisible Darlings” is sort of a sophisti-pop spin on the woozy sound Avey […]
Watch Snail Mail & Soccer Mommy Cover Avril Lavigne At Valentine Fest
Last year, Snail Mail’s Lindsey Jordan announced something special for her Baltimore hometown. At the event dubbed Valentine Fest in honor of Snail Mail’s 2021 sophomore album Valentine, Jordan and her band would headline five nights of shows at the Ottobar, one of the best indie venues in the world. (I met my wife there […]
The Number Ones: Fergie’s “London Bridge”
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. What hath “Hollaback Girl” wrought? In the first half of the ’00s, when rap and R&B utterly dominated the pop charts, it […]
Zulu – “We’re More Than This”
Tonight, the Show Me The Body/Jesus Piece/Scowl/Zulu tour touches down in Richmond. Reports from last night’s Philly opener have been tremendous, and I will tell you what, I am ready for this shit. I need it. A bunch of the bands on that tour have new music coming out, and LA hardcore avengers Zulu have […]