Anytime the convulsive Californian rock rippers Hot Snakes are in action, it’s good news. In 2000, Rick Froberg and John Reis formed Hot Snakes out of the ashes of their old band Drive Like Jehu. The band released three albums before breaking up in 2005. But two years ago, the reunited Hot Snakes released a […]
Japanese Breakfast's Michelle Zauner & Crying's Ryan Galloway Team Up On New Surprise EP
Some people spend lockdown doing absolutely nothing (me) and others spend it doing this. Japanese Breakfast’s Michelle Zauner and Crying’s Ryan Galloway started sending tracks back-and-forth to each other earlier this summer, and as Rolling Stone points out, today they’re releasing some of the fruits of those efforts: a four-song EP called pop songs 2020 […]
Devendra Banhart – “Franklin’s Tower” (Grateful Dead Cover)
In July, Devendra Banhart released Vast Ovoid, an EP of outtakes from his 2019 album Ma. He recently announced OLA: Devendra Banhart plays songs in the order they were written, a series of live concerts streaming every Wednesday. And now he’s back with an Amazon Original cover of the Grateful Dead’s “Franklin’s Tower” in honor […]
John Jeffrey – "Leaving Franklin"
John Jeffrey, the drummer for space-rockers Moon Duo — whose most recent album Stars Are The Light was named an Album Of The Week last year — has announced his debut solo album, Passage, made up of four expansive and improvisational instrumentals that he recorded with engineer Colin Stewart at the British Columbia-based studio The […]
Sun June – "Singing"
The Austin-based band Sun June released their debut album, Years, back in 2018. It’s filled with lilting and dreamy and wonderfully considered rock songs, and today they’ve announced their signed to Run For Cover and have shared a new single called “Singing,” a lovely and calm-sounding track that has a gnaw of disappointment. “I heard […]
Osees – “Scramble Suit II”
In a few weeks, Osees — the bugged-out psychedelic garage-punk band variously known as Thee Oh Sees and Oh Sees — will release a new album called Protean Threat. Frontman John Dwyer remains relentlessly prolific, even during a pandemic, and we posted video of the band ripping through songs from the new album in an […]
Shygirl – "FREAK"
So far this year, the London artist Shygirl has popped up in relation to some other notable people. She’s on the Arca album, the Georgia album (albeit with a track that’s a couple years old), and SOPHIE played a new collaboration with her in a recent DJ set. On her own, she put out a […]
Wilco Announce 'Summerteeth' Deluxe Reissue With Previously Unreleased Material
Wilco are releasing a deluxe reissue of their 1999 album Summerteeth, a key entry in the string of masterpieces that cemented them as one of the greatest bands in American history. The ornately poppy and darkly depressive collection is getting the elaborate treatment it deserves, with 4xCD and 5xLP versions containing lots of previously unreleased […]
Hundredth Announce New Synthpop Album 'Somewhere Nowhere', Share New Single "Bottle It Up": Listen
The Myrtle Beach, South Carolina trio Hundredth started out making intense melodic hardcore a decade ago. In the years since then, they’ve been doing everything in their power to evolve. On their last album, 2017’s great RARE, the band took on a pronounced shoegaze influence, marrying big melodies to vast, crashing sounds. In the singles […]
Colin Meloy – "Slint, Spiderland"
The Decemberists leader Colin Meloy has released a lovely new song called “Slint, Spiderland.” He wrote it for the Morning Edition Song Project, for which NPR is asking musicians “to capture life in the era of COVID-19 by writing an original song that describes this turbulent moment.” Meloy’s song, an acoustic ballad that reminds me […]