Last week, Iggy Pop announced he’d recently signed with producer Andrew Watt’s Atlantic Records imprint Gold Tooth Records. “I’m the guy with no shirt who rocks; Andrew and Gold Tooth get that, and we made a record together the old-fashioned way,” Pop said in a statement at the time. “The players are guys I’ve known […]
SZA – “Shirt”
SZA has finally released “Shirt,” a single that she first teased on Instagram in early 2021; that snippet ended up going viral with an accompanying dance on TikTok, and SZA preformed the track for the first time in a livestream later that year. The track was also teased in the music video for SZA’s last […]
Rihanna – “Lift Me Up”
The Rihannasance is upon us. Almost seven years after her most recent album ANTI, more than five since she was a regular fixture on the pop charts, and well over two since her last appearance on a song (PartyNextDoor’s “Believe It,” a song released before COVID-19 was declared a pandemic), pop star-turned-fashion mogul Rihanna is […]
Sour Widows – “I-90”
Over the summer, Bay Area band Sour Widows shared their first new track — “Witness” — since last year’s Crossing Over EP. Now, Maia Sinaiko, Susanna Thomson, and Max Edelman are back with another new track, “I-90,” which they produced in collaboration with engineer Maryam Qudus. As Maia Sinaiko explains, “I-90” was written in 2017 […]
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith – “I Wanna Dance With Somebody” (Whitney Houston Cover)
In August, electronic composer Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith released her latest album, Let’s Turn It Into Sound. Today, Smith is sharing two new Spotify singles, including a revamp of Let’s Turn It Into Sound‘s “Unbraid: The Merge” and a cover of Whitney Houston’s classic “I Wanna Dance With Somebody.” “Whitney Houston’s voice is like no other […]
Boldy James – “Could Be Worse”
Boldy James just never stops working. Last week, we posted the Detroit underground rap great’s Evidence-produced single “Drop An Album,” and its title seemed like a joke. After all, Boldy had just dropped his second album of 2022, teaming up with Montreal producer Nicholas Craven on the excellent Fair Exchange No Robbery. Next month, Boldy […]
The Go! Team – “Look Away, Look Away” (Feat. The Star Feminine Band)
Last month, the Go! Team announced Get Up Sequences Part Two, the follow-up to last year’s Part One. Out next February, Part Two features guest appearances from Apples In Stereo’s Hilarie Bratset, Lucie Too’s Kokubo Chisato, Neha Hatwar, the Star Feminine Band, Nitty Scott, and more. We’ve already heard “Divebomb” featuring Detroit rapper IndigoYaj, and […]
White Reaper – “Pages”
Garage-punk saviors White Reaper have announced a new album, Asking For A Ride. The follow-up to 2019’s You Deserve Love will be out January 27 via Elektra and comes with a Lance Bangs-directed music video for the lead single, “Pages.” Recorded and self-produced in Nashville with the help of engineer Jeremy Ferguson, Asking For A […]
SpiritWorld – “Relic Of Damnation”
SpirtWorld, the metallic hardcore head-crushers from Las Vegas, know how to make a music video. Next month, SpiritWorld will follow their 2021 debut Pagan Rhythms with a new album called DeathWestern. We’ve already posted “Moonlight Torture,” which features Integrity legend Dwid Hellion, and the title track, which has a truly bugged-out Western horror-movie video. Today, […]
Tancred – “Mirepoix” (Feat. Jenny Owen Youngs)
Jess Abbott is back her first new Tancred track since her album Nightstand was released back in 2018. “Mirepoix” is a flickering acoustic number featuring backing vocals from Jenny Owen Youngs, and it finds Abbott setting a delicate table for two. “Mirepoix is about how important people are to each other,” she explained in a […]