Last year, the great English folk musician Michael Chapman passed away at age 80. Today, on what would have been his 81st birthday, the label Tompkins Square has released a surprise new posthumous album from Chapman. It’s called Another Fish, and Chapman recorded it in 2019, intending it to be the follow-up to his 2015 […]
Ty Segall – “Story Of The Century”
Two years ago, director Matt Yoka’s documentary Whirlybird premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. The film tells the story of Zoey Tur and Marika Gerrard, a married couple of videojournalists who captured tons of sensationalistic helicopter footage — including the OJ Simpson Bronco chase — during the ’90s. Whirlybird still hasn’t gone into wide release, […]
Dropper – “Ok Ok Ok”
Dropper, the band led by Brooklyn’s Andrea Scanniello, impressed us with the early singles from new album Don’t Talk To Me. Today the group has returned with another exemplary slice of retro-tinted indie rock. Dropper’s music tends to include shades of country, pop, garage rock, and psych, and the new “Ok Ok Ok” is certainly […]
Stream Songs: Ohia’s Previously Unreleased “VU Anxiety”
Secretly Canadian has announced Live: Vanquishers, a newly unearthed Songs: Ohia live album recorded in the Netherlands in 2000 that’s being released exclusively to members of the Secretly Society subscription series and Static & Distance, an official fan club dedicated to the late Jason Molina. Ben Swanson, co-founder of Secretly Group, says: Jason created such […]
Beachheads – “Change”
Beachheads are such a weird band. Two of the four members of this Norwegian group are also in Kvelertak, the heroically burly metal band. Musically, though, Beachheads are light-years removed from Kvelertak. Instead, they make jangly, catchy power-pop that’s full of soft textures and assured hooks. They’re really good at it! Whenever you find some […]
Stream The New Ergs! EP Time And The Season, Their First Record In Six Years
After a great eight-year run, New Jersey pop-punk cult heroes the Ergs! broke up in 2008. Since then, frontman Mikey Erg has picked up the band’s banner, cranking out a bunch of his own snotty, garagey records. But the Ergs! are now a going concern once again. The band has reunited intermittently over the years, […]
Stream Age Of Apocalypse’s Stomp-Ass Debut Album Grim Wisdom
Age Of Apocalypse come from the busy hardcore scene in New York’s Hudson Valley, and they made a name for themselves during the pandemic. They released their debut EP The Way last year, and they followed it with a split with Long Island’s Pain Of Truth. Age Of Apocalypse’s sound is based in hardcore, but […]
Katie Dey – “unfurl” & “real love”
Katie Dey, the experimental bedroom-pop mastermind from Melbourne, has kept busy since the 2020 release of her great album mydata. She’s teamed up with Black Dresses’ Devi McCallion on the collaborative album Magic Fire Brain, she’s released a remix LP, and she’s covered Laugh & Peace’s “In The Sky.” Today, Dey has announced that she’s […]
Hot Water Music – “Collect Your Things And Run”
Later this year, the gruff and grizzled Gainesville punk veterans Hot Water Music will follow their 2017 album Light It Up with a new LP called Feel The Void. For this album, the band reunited with their old producer Brian McTernan for the first time since 2004. (McTernan, the former Battery frontman who now leads […]
Stream Jana Horn’s Remarkable, Mesmerizing Debut Album Optimism
Optimism has taken its time edging its way into the world — fitting for an album that will creep up on you rather than grandly gesture for your attention. Austin singer-songwriter Jana Horn recorded it in 2018 and originally released in a small run of vinyl in 2020. Today it’s out widely via No Quarter […]