In one month, the frantic and chaotic Philadelphia punk band Soul Glo will release their new EP Songs To Yeet At The Sun, the follow-up to the hard and confrontational 2019 album The Nigga In Me Is Me. Touché Amoré frontman Jeremy Bolm is putting the new EP out on his revived Secret Voice label, […]
Buck Meek – "Second Sight"
The members of Big Thief really don’t fuck around. Last year, they released their third album as a band, U.F.O.F., a massively acclaimed level-up that they wasted no time in following up with Two Hands, an album some fans liked even more. After releasing two of the best albums of 2019, the very prolific members […]
Anderson .Paak – “Jewelz”
Since quarantine began, Anderson .Paak has stayed productive. He’s played a funk troll in Trolls World Tour. He’s appeared on tracks from Nas, Busta Rhymes, and Big Sean. And he’s released a couple of his own singles: The Juneteenth protest song “Lockdown,” the Rick Ross collab “Cut Em In.” Today, he’s shared another one. .Paak’s […]
John Cale – "Lazy Day"
John Cale is always around — just recently, in fact, he popped up on the excellent Kelly Lee Owens track “Corner Of My Sky.” He’s always working on something or another, but now it’s been a bit since he’s released a new album. (His last, 2016’s M:FANS, was a reimagining of his 1982 album Music […]
Future Islands – “Born In A War”
This Friday, Baltimore synth-rock dramatists Future Islands will release their new album As Long As You Are. The album comes three years after The Far Field, their last one, and after the members of the band have been devoted attention to side projects like frontman Samuel T. Herring’s pretty-great rap debut Back At The House. […]
Jeff Tweedy's "Gwendolyn" Video Features A Whole Bunch Of Famous Faces — Sort Of
A couple weeks back, the ever-prolific Jeff Tweedy announced that he’d gone and made a quarantine-era album called Love Is The King. At the time, he also shared two new songs, the album’s title track and “Guess Again.” Today, he’s back with another one called “Gwendolyn.” Musically, “Gwendolyn” is a bit sweeter and rollicking than […]
The War On Drugs Announce Live Album
Just over three years ago, the War On Drugs released their fourth album A Deeper Understanding, a monumental work that felt like the culmination of the band’s sonic trajectory as well as their steady ascension. Drugs mastermind Adam Granduciel has popped up a couple times this year, remixing the Rolling Stones and previewing new material. […]
The Antlers – “Wheels Roll Home”
This year has been full of surprises — most of them, it goes without saying, being pretty shitty ones. But perhaps you will feel more positively about this one: The Antlers have released a new song. For a long time, this didn’t seem like a possibility. The Antlers’ last album, Familiars, came out all the […]
Jay Electronica Finally Releases His Long-Shelved Album 'Act II: The Patents Of Nobility': Stream
For many, many years, it looked like Jay Electronica would never release an album. This year, we’ve got two. Allah works in mysterious ways. In 2010, following the success of his 2007 mixtape Act I: Eternal Sunshine: The Pledge and his monstrous 2009 single “Exhibit C,” the hyped-up rap mystic Jay Elec signed with Jay-Z’s […]
BlessedKingTheArtist Impresses On Debut Single And Music Video “Tennessee”
Franck Yvan Njonkou Seudio, known as BlessedKingTheArtist, has just released his new song and music video “Tennessee,” recorded in Baltimore at Wright Way Studios. Frank was born and raised in Yaounde, Cameroon, and moved to the United States in 2017, as soon as he graduated from University in Cameroon. He then transferred to the University […]