Fun fact: Jonathan Melberg’s dramatic art-rock project Shearwater was the first band ever to land two different LPs in Stereogum’s Album Of The Week column. Right now, Meiburg is preparing to release the first new Shearwater album in six years, following up 2016’s Jet Plane And Oxbow with the new LP The Great Awakening. We’ve […]
Beach Rats – “Rat Beat”
Very few people in modern punk rock have resumes as impressive as that of Brian Baker. Baker has played in about a million bands, most famously Minor Threat, and he’s also spent the past few decades in Bad Religion. In 2018, Baker was living in Asbury Park, New Jersey, and he started a new band […]
Another Michael – “Water Pressure”
Last year, Another Michael released their long-in-the-works debut album New Music And Big Pop, which landed the Philadelphia-based band on our list of the Best New Bands Of 2021. Today, they’re back with their first new single since then, “Water Pressure,” which is warm and inviting and has a chorus that celebrates a pastime that’s […]
The Range – “Urethane”
The Range is releasing his first new album in six years, Mercury, this June. We’ve heard already two tracks from it — “Bicameral” and “Ricercar” — and today James Hinton is back with a third, “Urethane,” which builds upon a sample of “Ice Rink” by the UK grime rapper MIK. “The lyrics ‘last year man […]
Ty Segall – “Hello, Hi”
Human psych-rock factory Ty Segall isn’t the type to sit still for long. Last summer, Segall released his surprise LP Harmonizer. Earlier this year, he followed that LP with his soundtrack for the documentary Whirlybird. And now Segall has announced plays to drop a whole new LP on the world this summer, and he’s shared […]
Mach-Hommy Shares Three New Songs: Listen
Last year, the great New Jersey rap enigma Mach-Hommy released two albums, Pray For Haiti and Balens Cho (Hot Candles), and you could actually hear those albums on streaming services when the came out. This was not the way Mach-Hommy normally does things. Over the past few years, Mach-Hommy has treated most of his releases […]
Flume – “Palaces” (Feat. Damon Albarn)
Last weekend, the Australian producer Flume performed at the first weekend of Coachella and brought out a roster of special guests that included Beck, Vince Staples, and Caroline Polachek. Yesterday, he took on Coachella weekend two and brought another guest along with him: Damon Albarn, who last week was busy singing with Billie Eilish at […]
Nine Of Swords – “WITH HELP”
The last time we heard from Nine Of Swords was back in 2016 when the released the visceral and bruised You Will Never Die, home to one of the most harrowing songs that I still revisit all the time in “snow iii.” Today, they’re announcing their first album in six years, BEYOND THE SWORDS, which […]
Stream Thou & Mizmor’s Surprise Collaborative Doom Metal Album Myopia
Louisiana sludge overlords Thou are always working; a couple of months ago, they helped soundtrack the video game NORCO. Thou are often amazing on their own, but they sometimes do their best work with collaborators. In 2020 and 2021, for instance, Thou got together with Emma Ruth Rundle to release the collaborative album May Our […]
Stream Crime Of Passing’s Intense, Driving Self-Titled Post-Punk Debut
Last month, the Cincinnati post-punk band Crime Of Passing impressed the hell out of me with “Tender Fixation,” an early single from the band’s self-titled debut LP. I can happily report that “Tender Fixation” was not an anomaly. Crime Of Passion’s version of post-punk is fully DIY. It’s scratchy and noisy and relatively lo-fi. But […]