Just last March, experimental electronic collective P.E. released The Leather Lemon LP. Today, they’re announcing the 100% improvised NOPE Tapes Vol 1, which the band recorded live in Brooklyn last November. The full tape will be available next month, and P.E. have shared a track from it called “Branding Crisis.” As a press release outlines, […]
Detroit’s Movement Fest 2023 Lineup Has Underworld, Caribou, Moodymann, & More
Movement Music Festival is set to go down in Detroit over Memorial Day Weekend, from May 27-29 inside Hart Plaza. Today, the fest is sharing a teaser lineup featuring headliners Underworld and Belgian techno performer Charlotte De Witte. Also on the docket: Caribou, Moodymann (performing at Movement for the first time in 10 years), DJ […]
Skrillex & Bladee – “Real Spring”
Skrillex has kicked off the year in overdrive, putting out a string of new singles ahead of his rumored double album. So far he’s shared “Rumble” (with Fred again.. and Flowdan), “Way Back” (with PinkPantheress and Trippie Redd), and “Leave Me Like This” (with Bobby Raps). Today, he’s back with yet another new song, “Real […]
Katie Gately – “Fawn” & “Brute”
Soundscape connoisseur Katie Gately is back with a new album, Fawn / Brute, her follow-up to 2020’s Loom. The album was inspired by Gately’s decision to have a child and her experience so far with motherhood. “When I got pregnant I started to get creative again,” she said. “I had a lot of energy at […]
Fall Out Boy Attempt To Kidnap Rivers Cuomo In “Heartbreak Feels So Good” Video
Last week, stadium-emo veterans Fall Out Boy announced their new album So Much (For) Stardust and shared first single “Live From The Other Side.” On the same day, founding guitarist Joe Trohman let the world know that he’d be taking a break from the band to focus on his mental health. Trohman recorded the new […]
SXSW Announces Hundreds More Artists Including New Order, Killer Mike, & Militarie Gun
SXSW 2023 has announced its third wave of performers, which features hundreds more artists from across the globe. Taking place this year from March 13-18, the Austin-based fest will feature performances by New Order, Killer Mike, and Militarie Gun, plus Protomartyr, THUS LOVE, Tangerine Dream, Frankie Rose, Anwan “Big G” Glover, Coco & Clair Clair, […]
The Number Ones: Ne-Yo’s “So Sick”
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. In January of 2006, the Wu-Tang Clan were getting back together for their first tour since the death of their comrade Ol’ […]
London’s Field Day Fest Has Aphex Twin’s First Show In Four Years
A few days back, Warp Records — plus this cryptic website — posted video teasing a date and location. Well, now we know that Aphex Twin will be playing his first show in four years at Field Day Fest on August 19 at Victoria Park in London. Aphex Twin also headlined the festival back in […]
Samia – “Honey” & “Breathing Song”
This week, Samia is releasing her sophomore album, Honey. She’s shared a handful of tracks from it already, including “Kill Her Freak Out,” “Mad At Me,” and the pair of singles “Pink Balloon” and “Sea Lions.” Today, she’s back with another pair of songs from the album, Honey‘s title track and one called “Breathing Song.” […]
R. Ring – “Hug”
This week, the Breeders’ Kelley Deal and Ampline’s Mike Montgomery are releasing their second album together as R. Ring, War Poems, We Rested. They’ve shared “Still Life” and “Def Sup” from it already, and today they’re back with “Hug,” a jagged and driving song that Deal dedicates to “all the daytime drunks of the world… […]