Kelela is back. It’s been five years since the release of her magnificent debut album Take Me Apart, and she has been quiet for most of that time. Over the weekend, she popped back up on social media with some very funny videos chronicling all of the people asking where she’s been at over the […]
Algiers – “Bite Back” (Feat. Backxwash & billy woods)
The shit-starting Atlanta band Algiers has refused to fit into any sort of genre or pigeonhole. Instead, they make furious resistance music, drawing from sounds across the landscape and following their own ideas of how to do it. Today, Algiers have followed up their 2020 album There Is No Year, coming back hard with a […]
Colleen Green Launches Tape Label, Releases Split With Beat Awfuls
After spending a decade in California, Colleen Green relocated back to her hometown in Massachusetts in 2020. She released a new album, Cool, in the fall of last year, and today she’s back with a pair of new singles, “College Rock” and “I Hate Art,” which are being released via Cocoa Beach Tapes, a new […]
Weyes Blood – “It’s Not Just Me, It’s Everybody”
Natalie Mering has announced a new Weyes Blood album called And In The Darkness, Hearts Aglow, her follow-up to 2019’s Titanic Rising. She co-produced it primarily with Foxygen’s Jonathan Rado, and it features guest appearances from Meg Duffy, Daniel Lopatin, and Mary Lattimore. “Well, here we are: Still making it all happen in our very […]
Lil Ugly Mane – “Blue Sand”
Strange things are afoot with Lil Ugly Mane, the Richmond, Virginia artist who helped pioneer the SoundCloud-rap style about a decade ago. In the past year or so, Lil Ugly Mane has been quietly releasing a lot of music that’s closer to indie rock than to any version of rap. Late last year, he self-released […]
Daphni – “Arrow”
Next month, Caribou’s Dan Snaith is releasing Cherry, his first new full-length album as his dance project Daphni in five years. He’s already shared four singles from it — “Mania,” “Clavicle,” “Cloudy,” and the title track — and today he’s back with one more, a twitchy and meditative song called “Arrow,” which comes along with […]
Bill Callahan – “Coyotes”
How was there not already a Bill Callahan song called “Coyotes”? Well, there is now, and it’s his first public offering from the forthcoming YTI⅃AƎЯ album. “Yes I am your loverman,” Callahan sings gently over a lush acoustic groove spiked with jazzy post-rock touches. “The coyotes are getting bolder/ They come to watch the dogs […]
METZ – “Come On Down” (Feat. IDLES’ Joe Talbot) & “Heaven’s Gate”
Next month, METZ are headed out on a tour to celebrate the 10th anniversary of their self-titled debut album. Today, they’re sharing two tracks: “Come On Down,” a brand-new one featuring IDLES frontman Joe Talbot, and “Heaven’s Gate,” which was previously only officially available on a radio station in the video game Cyberpunk 2077 under […]
Luke Haines & Peter Buck – “Psychedelic Sitar Casual”
On October 28, Auteurs’ Luke Haines and R.E.M.’s Peter Buck will share their second collaborative album, All The Kids Are Super Bummed Out. It follows 2020’s Beat Poetry For Survivalists. It’s got Buck on guitar and, according to their label website, it “feeds LSD to a broken Moog synthesiser.” The description goes on to say […]
Hear Miles Davis’ Previously Unreleased “Code 3” From New 1982-1985 Comp
Next Friday, Columbia Records/Legacy Recordings will release Miles Davis – That’s What Happened 1982-1985: The Bootleg Series Vol. 7. The set features three albums — including two discs of previously unreleased studio material from the jazz great’s Star People, Decoy, and You’re Under Arrest sessions. There is also a third disc of Miles Davis Live […]