Way back in 2016, the New York guitar-pop band Free Time released their album In Search Of Free Time. Six years later, they finally found enough hours to follow it up. According to the Bandcamp description, the forthcoming Jangle Jargon was recorded in two main bursts of activity starting in 2017: first with Woods’ Jarvis […]
Rhys Langston – “Afro-Eccentric Character Creation Screen” (Feat. The Koreatown Oddity)
LA rap oddball Rhys Langston launched the rollout for his new album Grapefruit Radio with the Fatboi Sharif team-up “Progressive House, Conservative Ligature.” Today he’s back with another colorfully titled track. Backed by crisp yet woozy minimalist production from Whose, “Afro-Eccentric Character Creation Screen” gives me the same off-kilter buzz I used to get from […]
Heaven’s Gate – “Jerusalem Syndrome”
Heaven’s Gate are a new band whose lineup goes like this: Municipal Waste’s Tony Foresta, Warthog’s Mike Goo, Reversal Of Man’s Jeff Howe, and Cannibal Corpse’s Paul Mazurkiewicz. “Long story short, Mike G, and I both moved to St Pete a few years ago and were dying to have some sort of fun creative outlet […]
Kiwi Jr. – “The Extra Sees The Film”
Next month, the Canadian band Kiwi Jr. are releasing their third album, Chopper. They’ve shared “Night Vision” and “Unspeakable Things” from it already, and today they’re back with another one, the mellow and dreamy “The Extra Sees The Film,” which features some fun and darkly tragic lyrical allusions, including “There’s a soft opening, she’ll be […]
Jessie Ware – “Free Yourself”
Jessie Ware starts her next era today. She does so with “Free Yourself,” a jubilantly funky disco-house track co-produced by Stuart Price and Clarence Coffee Jr. Ware debuted the song at Glastonbury last month, and now the studio version is out, replete with stabbing brass, stuttering programmed drums, and a strut-worthy bass groove. In a […]
Daphni – “Clavicle”
Dan Snaith, the mastermind behind Caribou, has also spent years releasing dance tracks under his Daphni alter-ego. After releasing the 2020 Caribou album Suddenly and the 2021 single “You Can Do It,” Snaith is coming back this fall with a new Daphni LP called Cherry. We’ve already posted the title track and “Cloudy,” and now […]
PVA – “Hero Man”
The London trio PVA made waves back in 2019 when they released their debut single, “Divine Intervention,” which was produced by Speedy Wunderground’s Dan Carey and provided a similar bent as their contemporaries like Squid and Black Midi but to dancier ends. They followed that up in 2020 with the Toner EP, their first for […]
Lil Ugly Mane – “Low Tide At The Dryin’ Out Facility”
About a decade ago, the Richmond, Virginia rapper Lil Ugly Mane arguably helped pioneer the whole SoundCloud-rap wave with his album Mista Thug Isolation. But Lil Ugly Mane didn’t stick with that sound long enough to capitalize on it. Recently, the artist seems to have gone off on his own personal spiritual quest. After a […]
Johanna Warren – “I’d Be Orange”
Florida-born, LA-based indie-folk performer Johanna Warren has announced the follow-up to her 2020 album, Chaotic Good. Her forthcoming sixth studio album, Lessons For Mutants, will be out October 7 via Wax Nine / Carpark Records. Warren has also shared an uptempo lead single, “I’d Be Orange,” which has a music video co-directed by Warren and […]
Titus Andronicus – “(I’m) Screwed”
Last month, New Jersey art-punk standard-bearers Titus Andronicus announced their return with a cover of Cock Sparrer’s “We’re Coming Back,” their first new music since 2019’s An Obelisk. At the time, they only hinted at more new material, but now they’ve shared that their seventh studio album, The Will To Live, will arrive Sept. 30 […]