Next month, the crushingly heavy Pittsburgh hardcore band Unreal City will release their new album Cruelty Of Heaven. It’s their first new LP in the 13 years since they released their debut Ephemeral Subsistence. A few weeks ago, the band shared their song “War Behind Bars,” the kind of track that makes you want to […]
Touché Amoré Announce New Album 'Lament', Team With Manchester Orchestra's Andy Hull On Single "Limelight": Listen
Four years ago, the grand and clangorous Los Angeles post-hardcore band Touché Amoré released their devastating, monumental album Stage Four. Bandleader Jeremy Bolm sang, screamed, and sobbed about watching his mother die of cancer. It was a crowning achievement for a band who’d already made a lot of powerful music. In the time since, there […]
Marilyn Manson – “We Are Chaos”
Just this week Marilyn Manson was spotted in the studio with A$AP Ferg, and now he’s gone and announced an album produced by Shooter Jennings. The man has range! We Are Chaos is out on 9/11, because of course Marilyn Manson is going to release an album on 9/11 when he has the chance. He […]
Get Lost In Sprain's 10-Minute Post-Rock Epic "Constant Hum"
A month ago the LA post-rock band Sprain shared “Worship House,” an impressive introduction to their new album As Lost Through Collision. Now they’ve revealed the album’s closing track, a 10-minute slow-build called “Constant Hum.” Slowly but surely, the music expands from its creeping, spidery genesis into harrowing noisy outbursts. It’s the sort of song […]
Sumac – “The Iron Chair”
As the former frontman for Isis — a Boston band whose name is really only unfortunate in retrospect — Aaron Turner helped establish the idea of drawn-out, sensitive interior music in the world of underground metal. Isis were a hugely influential band in their day, and Turner has remained a towering presence with other projects […]
Mina Tindle – "Give A Little Love" (Feat. Sufjan Stevens)
French folk-pop singer Mina Tindle, aka Pauline de Lassus Saint-Geniès, previewed her new album Sister last month with a pair of early singles, “Lion” and “Belle Pénitence.” Today she shares a third, “Give A Little Love,” which features the voice of Sufjan Stevens, who, like Tindle, is a longtime associate of the National. Like the […]
Shearwater/Cross Record Side Project Loma Announce New Album 'Don't Shy Away', Share New Single "Ocotillo": Listen
In 2017, Emily Cross and Dan Duszynski, the two members of the Texan indie rock duo and circa-2015 Stereogum Band To Watch Cross Record got together with Shearwater frontman Jonathan Meiburg, who’d taken Cross Record on tour as openers, and formed a new trio called Loma. In 2018, Loma released a self-titled album and toured, […]
Lomelda – "It's Infinite"
Hannah Read’s latest Lomelda album rollout started off with a bang in the form of “Wonder,” an absolute stunner of a lead single that infused Read’s tender and idiosyncratic indie-pop with a joyous bashed-out energy. Today she shares the second single from new album Hannah, a gentler but no less pretty offering called “It’s Infinite.” […]
Trevor Powers, Formerly Youth Lagoon, Releases Surprise Album 'Capricorn': Stream
For about six years, the Boise space cadet Trevor Powers recorded ambitious and psychedelic indie rock under the name Youth Lagoon. In 2016, Powers retired the Youth Lagoon project. (You can’t really say Youth Lagoon broke up, since it was never really a band.) Soon afterward, Powers began putting out music under his own name. […]
Long Knife – “Night Of The Hunter” & “Rough Liver”
For the better part of a decade, the Portland punks Long Knife have been making fast, ugly, fantastically nasty hardcore punk songs about being drunk and angry. Today, they’ve come out with a couple of new bangers, their first in a few years. Long Knife have two albums to their name, 2013’s Wilderness and 2015’s […]