For the past few years, Phoebe Bridgers has shared a new cover song for the Christmas season. Last year, she did Merle Haggard’s “If We Make It Through December”; other years have seen her covering Simon & Garfunkel, McCarthy Trenching and “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas.” This year’s addition to the Bridgers holiday canon […]
J. Robbins – “Uncle John”
Two years later, the Jawbox frontman and veteran underground rock producer J. Robbins released his first-ever solo album. Robbins’ Un-becoming came out in 2019, the same year that Robbins reunited with Jawbox. Robbins wasn’t done working on his own. As Brooklyn Vegan points out, Robbins will soon release a new split 7″ that’ll also feature […]
Boris – “Drowning By Numbers”
Last year, Japanese rock institution Boris released a new album, NO, their 26th studio album overall. That album ended on a track called “Interlude,” suggesting that there was still more to come, and indeed there is. Today, Boris are announcing another new full-length called W, a continuation of their 2020 album — put them together […]
Stream Arca’s New Album KICK ii
Last month, Arca finally announced KICK ii, the follow-up to KiCk i and the second volume of the Kick project. She then proceeded to announce both KicK iii and kick iiii, and all those albums are set to be released this week. Today, Arca has unveiled KICK ii a few days ahead of its originally […]
Black Country, New Road – “Concorde”
In February of next year, Black Country, New Road will release their sophomore album, Ants From Up There. So far, we’ve heard lead single “Chaos Space Marine” and “Bread Song.” Today they share their latest. Coming in at around six minutes, the bombastic “Concorde” is a stunning showcase of both lead singer Isaac Wood’s baritone […]
Marissa Paternoster – “Black Hole”
This Friday, Screaming Females’ Marissa Paternoster is releasing Peace Meter, her first solo album under her own name (though she’s previously released music on her own as Noun). We’ve heard “White Dove” and “I Lost You” from it already, and today we’re getting one more single, “Black Hole,” a quivering track in which Paternoster sinks […]
Trentemøller – “Dead Or Alive”
A couple months back, the Danish musician Trentemøller announced a new album, Memoria, his follow-up to 2019’s Obverse that’s out in February. He’s shared “In The Gloaming” and “All Too Soon” from it so far, and last week he put out the album’s third single, “Dead Or Alive,” a driving bit of shadowy synth-pop that […]
Stream Saint Etienne’s Lovely New Christmas EP Her Winter Coat
A few months ago, Saint Etienne, the great long-running trio of UK pop adventurers, released an excellent sound-collage album called I’ve Been Trying To Tell You. The group built the LP out of samples drawn from the years between 1997 and 2001, and they paired the album with a long-form music video from director Alasdair […]
Stream Your Old Droog’s Impressive New Album Space Bar
A little less than one year ago, the Brooklyn rapper Your Old Droog released his album Dump YOD: Krutoy Edition. Ever since then, Droog has been on a serious hot streak. Thus far in 2021, he’s released the solo album Time and teamed up with frequent collaborator Tha God Fahim on the projects Tha Wolf […]
Dionne Warwick – “Nothing’s Impossible” (Feat. Chance The Rapper)
After some playful ribbing about his name — “If you are very obviously a rapper why did you put it in your stage name? I cannot stop thinking about this,” Dionne Warwick famously tweeted last year — Chance The Rapper announced that he was teaming up with the octogenarian pop legend for a duet to […]