In the early ’00s, the UK producer Bobby Krlic started releasing stark, ominous electronic music as the Haxan Cloak. This man really altered some zones. Early Haxan Cloak records came out on labels like Aurora Borealis and Tri Angle, and then Krlic started working with other artists — first with experimental noise-metal due the Body, […]
Yumi Zouma – “be okay”
New Zealand indie-pop greats Yumi Zouma returned last month with the splendid, shoegazy “KPR.” It was the first preview of an upcoming EP, and they’re giving us another taste today. New single “be okay” begins with the pristine clarity that characterized last year’s brilliant Present Tense, but by the chorus the distortion sets in. There’s […]
Fuming Mouth – “I’ll Find You”
The recent history of Fuming Mouth is a real triumph of the human spirit. In 2021, Mark Whelan, frontman of the Massachusetts hardcore/death metal band, was diagnosed with leukemia. After chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant, Whelan is now on the mend. Last year, Fuming Mouth returned at the America’s Hardcore fest. Next month, they’ll […]
Coldplay Countersue Former Manager For $17M, Citing Useless Bespoke Pylons
Back in August, Coldplay’s former manager Dave Holmes — not the MTV guy, or the DJ/composer, or my lifelong concert buddy — sued the band for $12 million worth of unpaid commission from their 10th album, 2021’s Music Of The Spheres, and their still-unreleased 11th LP. (A new Coldplay album is coming soon, I guess. […]
Madi Diaz – “Same Risk”
“What the fuck do you want? Cause I’ll give you all that I’ve got/ I’ll let you clean out my closet and I’ll let you try on all my dirty thoughts/ If you lay in my bed, I know we’re gonna have sex/ It’ll happen so fast, make a suicide pact, and you can’t take […]
Watch Wilco Elegantly Chug Through “Evicted” On Kimmel
The writers’ strike threw everything into chaos. Major movies’ release dates were pushed back to 2024. TV shows halted production. Studio heads are now forced to contend with a new reality where writers will know just how many people are watching the things that they’re making. And Wilco didn’t make their first late-night appearance behind […]
Watch Incubus Bring Out Lizzo And Play Morning View Deep Cuts In LA
On Friday, Incubus released a re-recorded version of Morning View for its 23rd anniversary, and they celebrated it by performing the album in full at the Hollywood Bowl that night. They did a couple of the deep cuts on the album live for the first time in a while — they hadn’t played “Under My […]
Watch Japanese Breakfast Play Little Big League’s “Lindsey” And Talk Crying in H Mart Movie At The New Yorker Festival
Japanese Breakfast’s Michelle Zauner was in conversation with writer Hua Hsu for The New Yorker Festival on Saturday night. She talked about the movie adaptation of her bestselling memoir Crying In H Mart, which she wrote the screenplay for. “I think I took it really far to, like, one direction where I wanted it to […]
Megan Thee Stallion – “Out Alpha The Alpha”
Megan Thee Stallion has a role in the new movie Dicks: The Musical, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival last month and is hitting select theaters this weekend. The film, which is based on a show from Aaron Jackson and Josh Sharp called F***ing Identical Twins, “follows two self-obsessed businessmen who discover they’re […]
Trust Fund – “our american tour”
Last year, Ellis Jones revived his Trust Fund project after putting it to bed back in 2018 following the release of his most recent full-length Bringing The Backline. He’s since been dropping stray tracks every few months, most recently “London” back in June. Trust Fund are currently supporting Mitski on a leg of her intimate […]