Bartees Strange has been around for a couple years now, releasing genre-fluid and often not-quite-classifiable music. Earlier this year, he embarked on a unique project, releasing Say Goodbye To Pretty Boy, an EP featuring only covers of the National. (He followed it up with a couple more.) Maybe it was a good move, bringing more […]
Bully – “Prism”
The third Bully album, SUGAREGG, comes out next week. We’ve heard a handful of songs from it already — “Where To Start,” “Every Tradition,” and “Hours And Hours” — and today Alicia Bognanno is sharing one more before the whole thing is out in full. “Prism” is a delightfully fuzzy build-up, melodic and warm and […]
Cardi B Is On OnlyFans Now
“Man, we should sell that porn.” That was Cardi B, rapping on the Migos track “Motor Sport,” way back in 2017. Today, Cardi is once again a topic of a whole lot of conversation thanks to her extremely horny new single “WAP.” And so it only makes sense that Cardi has just started an account […]
Marie Davidson & L'Œil Nu – "Renegade Breakdown"
The Montreal musician Marie Davidson has been making dance music for the better part of a decade, most recently with 2018’s Working Class Woman, which was grounded by the stunning breakout single “Work It.” Today, she’s announcing a new full-length album called Renegade Breakdown, and it’s attributed to Marie Davidson & L’Œil Nu, the name […]
Future Islands – "Thrill"
The Far Field, the most recent album from the beloved Baltimore synth-pop outfit Future Islands, arrived back in the spring of 2017. Though the band kept busy in the years since, it was beginning to feel like we were about due for another album — especially once they debuted a bunch of new songs onstage […]
Holy Motors – "Endless Night"
A couple years ago, the Estonian band Holy Motors caught a lot of people’s ears Stateside thanks to their convincing evocation of a kind of filmic, hazy Americana. We named their debut Slow Sundown Album Of The Week then, and now they’re about to return with a sophomore outing titled Horse. So far we’ve heard […]
Michel Gondry Directed IDLES' New "Model Village" Video
IDLES, the extremely popular British rock band with big reply-guy energy, are ramping up to the release of their new album Ultra Mono. They’ve already shared three songs from the LP — “Mr. Motivator,” “Grounds,” and “A Hymn” — and today they share a fourth, complete with a video by legendary director Michel Gondry. Gondry, […]
Slow Pulp – "Falling Apart"
Last year, Slow Pulp impressed us with their ability to take the aesthetics and moods of shoegaze and bring it into a poppier songwriting mold. We named them a Band To Watch, and their EP Big Day was one of the best of the year. So it was exciting news when, last month, they announced […]
The Goodbye Party – "Unlucky Stars"
Michael Cantor’s power-pop project the Goodbye Party hasn’t released an album since 2014’s Silver Blues, but today the Philadelphia-based musician is announcing a new full-length called Beautiful Motors, which will be out on Double Double Whammy in a couple months. It features contributions by a number of notables from the Philly scene: Yowler’s Maryn Jones, […]
Eels – “Baby Let’s Make It Real”
Mark Oliver Everett has now been making music with his sharp, personal studio-pop project Eels for a quarter century. Two years ago, Everett came out with the album The Deconstruction, his first in four years. Today, with no prior warning, Eels have come out with a new single called “Baby Let’s Make It Real,” and […]