Bridget Stiebris and Haley Blomquist are OK Cool, a Chicago-based indie band with a new EP on the way. It’s called fawn, and it blows through eight songs in 17 minutes. Lead single “normal c,” out today with a video by Justin Sheehan and Brian Garbrecht of Roadhouse Productions, is full of snaking riffs and […]
Watch Margo Price & Sharon Van Etten Play “Radio” On The TV
Strays, the splendid new Margo Price album, features Sharon Van Etten on a song called “Radio.” (Hook: “Only thing I have on is the radio.”) Last night, Price and Van Etten played that one on James Corden’s Late Late Show, backed by a pulsing synth and a rollicking rock band. Check out their performance below.
Depeche Mode – “Ghosts Again”
Depeche Mode will return next month with Memento Mori, their first album since 2017’s Spirit and the first since keyboardist Andy Fletcher’s death last year. The band, now officially just Dave Gahan and Martin Gore, has shared the new album’s lead single today. It’s called “Ghosts Again, and it’s… fantastic? Like better than I expected […]
Civic – “Fly Song”
Last year, the Melbourne rockers Civic came out of nowhere with their stomp-ass debut album Future Forecast. They didn’t waste any time building on that momentum. Civic signed with ATO, and tomorrow — less than a year after the release of Future Forecast — they’ll release their sophomore LP Taken By Force. We’ve already posted […]
K-Pop Company HYBE Buys Atlanta Rap Giant Quality Control
One of the great Atlanta rap success stories in recent years has been the rise of Quality Control Music, the Atlanta-based record label and management company that Kevin “Coach K” Lee and Pierre “P” Thomas founded in 2013. In the past decade, QC has discovered, developed, and pushed artists like the Migos, Lil Baby, Lil […]
Hearts Of Oak Turns 20
Ted Leo has a hell of a voice. Upon discovering his music two decades ago, the first thing I noticed about Leo — because how could you not — was the way he whipped around that wild falsetto, deploying it in piercing bursts and explosive roars. He was a kamikaze pilot guided by musicality as […]
Dougie Poole – “Beth David Cemetery”
With Dougie Poole nearing the release of new album The Rainbow Wheel Of Death, the esteemed city-bred country troubadour has shared one last teaser single. It’s called “Beth David Cemetery,” and he has this to say about it: Beth David is the cemetery in Queens where my Mom’s side of the family is buried. I’ve […]
Moreish Idols – “Nocturnal Creatures”
Last year, the London-based band Moreish Idols — I bet that name gets changed sooner rather than later — signed to Dan Carey’s culty indie label Speedy Wunderground and released their debut EP Float. Today, Moreish Idols drop a new single, and it’s called “Nocturnal Creatures.” Moreish Idols recorded ‘Nocturnal Creatures” with Dan Carey, and […]
Esther Rose – “Chet Baker”
Country-folk performer Esther Rose is announcing an album with her new label home, New West Records. Safe To Run is the follow-up to 2021’s How Many Times and will come out in April. Written over two years after leaving New Orleans for Santa Fe, Safe To Run is produced by Ross Farbe and features contributions […]
Jessie Ware – “Pearls”
In recent weeks, the great British singer Jessie Ware has been teasing something on her various social-media accounts. All that was leading up to a big announcement, and the announcement has now arrived. This spring, Ware will follow her excellent 2020 album What’s Your Pleasure? with the new LP That! Feels Good! You already know […]