Since her 2020 album I’m Your Empress Of, synthpop performer Lorely Rodriguez has hopped on tracks with other artists, notably last year’s “Note To Self” by Jim-E Stack, “Love In Reverse” by MNDR, and “Vacío” by Jarina De Marco. Now, Rodriguez is sharing her first new music of 2022 in the form of a dramatic, […]
Maggie Rogers – “That’s Where I Am”
Last week, Maggie Rogers announced her sophomore album, Surrender, which was written after she took a step back from music and started studying at Harvard Divinity School. But she’s back now, with an album that’s due out in July that was co-produced by Rogers and Kid Harpoon and was recorded in three studios: Electric Lady […]
Stream Yung Lean’s New Mixtape Stardust Featuring FKA Twigs, Skrillex, Bladee, & More
The Swedish rapper Yung Lean has been doing his thing for a while now and has cultivated a dedicated fanbase, but earlier this year he had his first real flirtation with the mainstream when his debut 2013 single “Ginseng Strip 2002” had a moment on TikTok. (That led to Lean hanging out with the likes […]
Stream Pavement’s Deluxe Terror Twilight Featuring 28 Previously Unreleased Tracks
Matador Records released deluxe reissues of the first four Pavement albums between 2002 and 2008, but for a long time it looked like the band’s fifth and final LP, 1999’s under-appreciated Terror Twilight, would never get the same treatment. That finally changes with today’s release of the 45-track compendium Terror Twilight: Farewell Horizontal. Farewell Horizontal […]
Arca – “Cayó”
Late last year, Arca released the final four albums of her five-album KICK series in one whirlwind week. Today, she’s announced that those — along with 2020’s KiCk i — will be packaged together in a box set that comes out in May. To celebrate that announcement, she’s officially releasing “Cayó,” a track that she […]
Porridge Radio – “The Rip”
Back in February, the cathartic Brit-rockers Porridge Radio returned with the announcement of their new album Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder To The Sky . At the time, they also shared the appropriately titled “Back To The Radio,” which topped our list of favorite songs that week. Today, they’re back with another song. Porridge Radio’s latest […]
Slang – “Cockroach In A Ghost Town”
Slang is one of many Portland bands featuring drum legend Janet Weiss (formerly of Sleater-Kinney and wild Flag and the Jicks) behind the kit. This particular configuration also includes Modern Kin’s Drew Grow, former Thermals member Kathy Foster, and Viva Voce’s Anita Lee Elliot. We heard their single “Wilder” over the winter, and today they’re […]
Cola – “Water Table”
Back in November, the great post-punk group Ought announced they were no more. But, former Ought members Tim Darcy and Ben Stidworthy also announced they’d formed a new band called Cola alongside US Girls/Weather Station drummer Evan Cartwright. In February, Cola returned with news of their debut album Deep In View and shared lead single […]
Melody’s Echo Chamber – “Alma”
Later this month, the French psych-pop great Melody Prochet, better known to most of us as Melody’s Echo Chamber, will release Emotional Eternal, her third album. Prochet recorded the LP with Dungen’s Reine Fiske and the Amazing’s Fredrik Swahn, the same collaborators who worked with her on 2018’s Bon Voyage, her last album. We’ve already […]
Terror – “Boundless Contempt”
It’s not easy for a hardcore band to remain together for 20 years and to stay vital for that entire time, but that’s what Southern California legends Terror have done. Terror are indisputable OGs in the hardcore world, and you can still catch them playing transformative shows small clubs or VFW Halls, usually with a […]