The last time we heard from the Men, the grimy Brooklyn band who have long mixed noise-damaged punk with swaggering classic rock, they were throwing their album Mercy into the world. That was one month before the pandemic hit and New York became a ghost town. Today, the Men have announced plans to release a […]
Philip Selway – “Check For Signs Of Life”
You might know Philip Selway as the drummer for a little-known band called Radiohead, and in the past decade he’s started to put out music under his own name. His debut album, Familial, was released in 2010, and that was followed by Weatherhouse in 2014. He’s worked on a couple soundtracks since then, but otherwise […]
Algiers – “Irreversible Damage” (Feat. Zack de la Rocha)
Last month, the expansive Atlanta band Algiers gave us a taste of some new material with “Bite Back,” a single featured billy woods and Backxwash. Today, they’re announcing a whole new album called SHOOK, their follow-up to 2020’s There Is No Year. It includes contributions from Big Rube (The Dungeon Family), Samuel T. Herring (Future […]
Andrew Bird – “I Felt A Funeral, In My Brain” (Feat. Phoebe Bridgers)
Earlier this year, Andrew Bird released a new album, Inside Problems, and he also scored Judd Apatow’s COVID comedy The Bubble. Today, he’s teamed up with Phoebe Bridgers for a track called “I Felt A Funeral, In My Brain,” which finds the folky pair setting the Emily Dickinson poem of the same name to music. […]
Leland Whitty – “Awake”
Leland Whitty of BADBADNOTGOOD has announced his debut solo album, Anyhow, due December 9 via Innovative Leisure. Whitty has also shared its lead single, “Awake,” which is a jazz-rock cascade of cinematic strings, horns, woodwinds, and synths. According to a press release, Anyhow is primarily inspired by jazz improvisation and features Whitty on guitar, synthesizer, […]
Anxious – “Where You Been”
Earlier this year, the great young Connecticut emo band Anxious released their full-length debut Little Green House. Last month, they followed that LP with the stand-alone single “Sunsign.” Today, Anxious have dropped another single, and it’s another absolute jam. As with “Sunsign,” Anxious recorded the new single “Where You Been” with producer Mike Sapone, who’s […]
Quicksand – “Feliz”
Fucking Quicksand, man. What a band. I can’t imagine it’s easy to break up and then get back together 20+ laters, picking up like you never left, but that’s what these New York post-hardcore heroes have done. Since reuniting, Quicksand have made two more albums — the same number that they released back when they […]
Fucked Up – “One Day”
For a band that seems only intermittently active, whose members are often focused on other gigs — from podcasting to production to side projects galore — Fucked Up sure do release a lot of music. Things seemed to slow down for a while after the release of 2018’s Dose Your Dreams, their last proper album. […]
Amber Arcades – “Just Like Me”
It’s been a while since we’ve heard from Dutch musician Annelotte de Graaf and her Amber Arcades project; European Heartbreak, the last Amber Arcades project, came out back in 2018. Early next year, Amber Arcades will return with the new LP Barefoot On Diamond Road. Annelotte de Graaf recorded the new LP with producer Ben […]
Unknown Mortal Orchestra – “I Killed Captain Cook”
After a three-year absence, Unknown Mortal Orchesta reemerged last year with a pair of singles, “Weekend Run” and “That’s Life.” Now the vibey, funky psych-pop project is back with something a bit different. The acoustic “I Killed Captain Cook” has its roots in Ruban Nielson’s cultural heritage. His mother, Deedee Aipolani Nielson, is a Kanaka […]