Longstanding Chicago experimentalists Bitchin Bajas will return very soon with a new EP called Bajascillators. Out less than two weeks from now, the project brings together four lengthy instrumentals designed to play off each other as “phases in perfect flow… wave after wave of analogue synth tones and zones extending into a stratospheric arc.” That […]
Innumerable Forms – “Thrall”
The members of the Boston-based band Innumerable Forms mostly come from hardcore; different people in the band have played in groups like Mind Eraser, Power Trip, Iron Lung, and Red Death. But Innumerable Forms generally go for a straight-up old-school death metal sound, and they’re really good at it. Next month, the band will release […]
Alice Boman – “Feels Like A Dream” (Feat. Perfume Genius)
The Swedish singer-songwriter Alice Boman has been putting out music for nearly a decade, and Mike Hadreas, the musician known to most of us as Perfume Genius, is a fan. This fall, Boman will release The Space Between, the new album that she recorded with Charli XCX/Robyn collaborator Patrik Berger. For the new single “Feels […]
Danny Brown – “Winter”
It’s been nearly three years since Detroit rap great released uknowhatimsayin¿, his most recent album. Since then, we’ve heard rumbling of other new projects — things like a collaborative project with JPEGMAFIA and the long-awaited XXXX album. But in the past few years, Brown has mostly been launching his Detroit crew Bruiser Brigade, and he’s […]
Nicholas Craven & Boldy James – “Power Nap”
Over the past year or so, Montreal hip-hop producer Nicholas Craven has been teaming with Detroit rapper Boldy James on a series of one-off tracks, most recently “Death & Taxes.” Today they’ve got a floaty, meditative offering that they’ve appropriately titled “Power Nap.” Not that this will put you to sleep, but Craven’s drum-free loop […]
JID Tells His Story With Help From His Dad, J. Cole, & More On “2007”
You know those origin-story songs rappers include on their albums, usually at the end, to celebrate how far they’ve come? “2007” was supposed to finish out JID’s forthcoming The Forever Story, but he had to cut it due to sample clearance issues. Instead, the song has emerged as a loosie. On the track — produced […]
Hear Dr. John’s Posthumous Traveling Wilburys Cover Featuring Aaron Neville
Dr. John’s posthumous album Things Happen That Way is out next month. The latest teaser from the project is a cover of “End Of The Line” by the classic-rock elder-statesman supergroup Traveling Wilburys. Rather than George Harrison, Jeff Lynne, Roy Orbison, and Tom Petty singing the song (Bob Dylan sat that one out), this cover […]
The Comet Is Coming – “Lucid Dreamer”
“CODE,” the lead single from The Comet Is Coming’s new album Hyper-Dimensional Expansion Beam, was a tense and frenetic joyride through the dance-rock side of hybrid jazz. We loved it. The London trio is back today with another advance track, “Lucid Dreamer.” This one presents different definitions of similar descriptors like “jazzy” and “syncopated,” trading […]
Eddie Vedder – “Long Shadow” (Joe Strummer And The Mescaleros Cover)
This Sunday marks 70 years since the birth of John Graham Mellor, who’d grow up to become the Joe Strummer. Dark Horse Records is commemorating the anniversary by releasing one of the final songs by the late Clash and Mescaleros frontman, as well as an Eddie Vedder cover of “Long Shadow,” ahead of a larger […]
Aidan Noell & Nancy Whang – “Sharevari” (A Number Of Names Cover)
Every year, we post one new solo track from Nation Of Language member Aidan Noell. In 2020, it was “Prepositional Phrase.” In 2021, it was “Selective Service.” In 2022, it’s a cover of A Number of Names’ early Detroit techno classic “Sharevari.” It’s a collaboration with LCD Soundsystem’s Nancy Whang, produced and mixed by Nick […]