These days, David Byrne is everywhere. He’s on Brodway. He was a big part of Miley Cyrus’ New Year’s Eve special. He’s Oscar-nominated for “This Is A Life,” the song that he recorded with Mitski and Son Lux for the Everything Everywhere All At Once soundtrack. My daughter tells me that “Psycho Killer” is all […]
John Vanderslice – “Crystals 26”
In recent years, former Bay Area indie rock super-producer John Vanderslice has moved to LA, gotten way into psychedelic drugs, and started releasing electronic music. His new album CRYSTALS 3.0 — named after a method of synthesizing pure LSD — sees him funneling those experiences back into the artisanal indie-pop singer-songwriter fare he made his […]
Thus Love – “Centerfield”
The new Thus Love song is not a John Fogerty cover. The Vermont trio’s “Centerfield” is a composition of their own, a gloomy new wave slow jam that sounds like it maybe could have come out in 1985, the same year as the other “Centerfield,” but also sounds nothing like CCR. “Dark day/ Centerfield,” goes […]
MSPAINT – “Titan Of Hope”
Mississippi synt-punk freaks MSPAINT, a Stereogum Band To Watch, are less than a month away from releasing their full-length debut Post-American, and people are amped for this one. MSPAINT are a weird, experimental band with a whole lot of ideas, but they’re also tough and physical enough to catch on within hardcore circles, which are […]
Who Is She? Release The Jeff Bezos-Dissing Song That Got Them Disinvited From Amazon-Affiliated Arena
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 […]