Back in May, the Canadian musician Hannah Judge released her debut album as fanclubwallet, You Have Got To Be Kidding Me. Today, she’s back with her first new track since then, a Halloween holiday-appropriate one in “Roadkill.” “‘Roadkill’ is basically about the way men put female musicians or just women in general up on strange […]
Vatican Voss – “I’m Out”
In 2017, Ian Shelton started his project Regional Justice Center as a way to deal with a traumatic event. Max, Ian’s brother, was in prison — sentenced to six years for assault. Max’s experience gave Ian a new perspective on the inhumanity of the carceral state, and he put those feelings into the frantic, unhinged […]
Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds – “Pretty Boy”
Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds are back with a new single, “Pretty Boy.” It’ll appear on a new album that’s due out next year, though details on that have yet to be announced. The track was co-produced with Paul “Strangeboy” Stacey, and it features guitar-playing from Johnny Marr. “For this new record it was the […]
Coma Regalia – “E. Texas Ave.” (The Promise Ring Cover) & “Blue Boy” (Texas Is The Reason Cover)
In 1996, emo pioneers the Promise Ring and Texas Is The Reason released a split 7″ featuring “E. Texas Ave.” by the former band and “Blue Boy” by the latter. In 2022, screamo greats Coma Regalia have covered both songs from that record as a sort of audio Halloween costume. The artwork parodies the original […]
The HIRS Collective Announce New Album Feat. Members Of Garbage, Melt Banana, Fucked Up, Soul Glo, My Chemical Romance, Converge, & More
For a decade, the Philadelphia punk crew the HIRS Collective have put out a few sprawling albums, including 2018’s Friends, Lovers. Favorites. and last year’s The Third 100 Songs. Today, they’re announcing a new album called We’re Still Here that features a whole lot of collaborators, among them members of Melt Banana, Fucked Up, Soul […]
Stream Backxwash’s New Album His Happiness Shall Come First Even Though We Are Suffering
For Halloween, the rapper and gothic world-builder Backxwash has gifted us with a new album, His Happiness Shall Come First Even Though We Are Suffering. It’s described as the final album in a trilogy that started with 2020’s God Has Nothing To Do With This Leave Him Out Of It and continued with last year’s […]
Celebrate Halloween With Bad Manor’s Campy Lo-Fi Metal Behemoth THE HAUNTING
In the April edition of our monthly metal column The Black Market, we profiled the Ordo Vampyr Orientis, a mysterious collective who seem to be having a fucking blast making spooky lo-fi metal albums with delightfully elaborate fictional backstories. Here’s how they explained themselves in the interview: There are many active participants in our Circle […]
Fousheé – “Supernova”
New York alt-soul artist Foushée, who memorably collaborated with Steve Lacy on “Sunshine,” has announced her debut album, softCORE, coming November 18 via RCA. As a press release lays out, softCORE is a “punk record in the most pointed sense of the word” and hones in on Foushée’s genre-rich presentation. It also features a guest […]
Hear John Mellencamp’s Previously Unreleased ’80s Cut “Smart Guys” From New Scarecrow Reissue
John Mellencamp has released the previously unheard song “Smart Guys” ahead of the forthcoming reissue of his classic 1985 album, Scarecrow, which arrives November 4. “Smart Guys” follows the previously shared “Carolina Shag.” The reissued album is set arrive in four different formats: Super Deluxe edition (2 CDs, 180-gram LP, 7″ Single, Blu-ray with ATMOS […]
Stream BabyTron’s New Album Bin Reaper 3: Old Testament
The Detroit rapper and Artist To Watch BabyTron emerged as part of the scam-rap wave but has carved out his own weird little lane. Locking into variations on the same deadpan flow, the ShittyBoyz member rides rippling, booming Michigan production, spitting boasts, jokes, and narratives from a quirky perspective all his own. He might have […]