The Melbourne-based singer-songwriter Julia Jacklin released her great sophomore album Crushing in 2019. Since then, Jacklin has released one-off singles, collaborated with Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever and Christian Lee Hutson, and covered artists like Avril Lavigne, Björk, and Bill Fay. Today, Jacklin has announced that she’ll follow Crushing with her new album Pre-Pleasure, set to […]
Black Midi Announce New Album Hellfire, Share “Welcome To Hell”
Last year, Black Midi released their sophomore album, Cavalcade. They’re already ready with another one: Hellfire will be out on July 15. “If Cavalcade was a drama, Hellfire is like an epic action film,” said the band’s Geordie Greep in a press release. Today, they’re sharing the album’s lead single, “Welcome To Hell.” Here’s Greep […]
Young Guv – “Nowhere At All”
Just a couple months ago, Ben Cook released his third full-length album as Young Guv, GUV III, and he’s already gearing up to release another album, GUV IV, next month. He announced it with “Change Your Mind” a couple weeks ago, and today he’s back with another new single, “Nowhere At All.” Here’s what he […]
POLIÇA – “Violence”
The Minneapolis synth-pop crew POLIÇA are releasing a new album, Madness, next month. They’ve shared “Rotting” and “Alive” from it so far, and today they’re sharing the new single “Violence.” It features a bunch of people in the POLIÇA orbit. As the group’s Channy Leaneagh explains: “Along with the core members of the band, the […]
Lande Hekt – “Romantic” & “Octopussy” (The Wedding Present Cover)
In January 2021, Muncie Girls’ Lande Hekt released her debut solo album, Going To Hell, which we named our Album Of The Week when it came out. She’s back with her first new single since then, “Romantic,” a gauzy and sentimental one which Hekt says is “about struggling to fit in, feeling down, and finding […]
The Smile – “Thin Thing”
This week, the Smile are releasing their debut album, A Light For Attracting Attention, just about a year after Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, and Sons Of Kemet drummer Tom Skinner unveiled the project live for the first time at Glastonbury. Since then, we’ve gotten a whole lot of singles from the album, including “The Smoke,” […]
Stream Future Girls’ Sincerely Catchy Pop-Punk EP Year Long Winter
The Halifax pop-punk band Future Girls started out in 2015 as the songwriting vehicle for Matty Grace, who’s also been in bands like Weekend Dads and Cluttered. Over the years, Future Girls became a four-piece, and they’ve released a handful of records, including the 2018 full-length Motivation Problems. On Friday, Future Girls followed Motivation Problems […]
Supercrush – “Trophy”
In recent years, we’ve seen a whole wave of bands like Angel Du$t and Webbed Wing, coming out of the worlds of punk and hardcore but embracing the sounds of ’90s power-pop and bubblegrunge. The Seattle trio Supercrush absolutely fits the bill. Collectively, the members of Supercrush have played in heavier bands like Black Breath, […]
Stream Judy And The Jerks’ New Album Music To Go Nuts
Judy And The Jerks come from Hattiesburg, Mississippi, and they make an extremely fun form of cranked-up lo-fi hardcore punk. The band’s style has a whole lot of hooky garage-rock adrenaline to it, but it’s also got the speed and rawness of full-on basement punk. Back in 2019, the band really impressed me with their […]
Kendrick Lamar – “The Heart Part 5”
Right before he dropped DAMN., Kendrick Lamar released a non-album track called “The Heart Part 4,” the fourth in a long-running series of loosies. And now, five days before the release of his apparent double-LP Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers, Kendrick is back with “The Heart Part 5.” It’s a decidedly sparse and funky […]