Last year, Sam Shepherd’s Floating Points project emerged with something different: the stunning, celestial album-length collaboration with Pharoah Sanders and the London Symphony Orchestra, Promises. It was one of the best albums of 2021. Earlier this year, Shepherd came back with a return to his more straight-up electronic lane, “Vocoder.” It ranked amongst our favorite […]
No/Más – “Interrogation”
Later this month, the DC underground-metal extremists No/Más will release their new album Consume / Deny / Repent. The band recorded the album with Twitching Tongues/God’s Hate member Taylor Young, perhaps the greatest producer currently working in the heavy-music space, and they’ve already shared the early track “Exile.” Today, they’ve released another one, a ripper […]
Sadurn – “icepick”
Next month, the Philadelphia band Sadurn are releasing their debut album, Radiator. We’ve heard “snake” and “golden arm” from it so far, and today we’re getting another single with “icepick,” a wistful strummer that breaks down a relationship into revealing power dynamics. “And your mind is like a fishnet, and mine is like an icepick/ […]
Artificial Brain – “Celestial Cyst”
New York’s Artificial Brain make guttural, expansive death metal. There’s a bit of an astral prog quality to their music, and there’s melody in there, too, but they never let that stuff compromise their ferocity. They’ve got some of the same experimental leanings as a band like Gorguts, but they truly sound like nobody else. […]
Nina Nastasia – “Just Stay In Bed”
It’s been twelve years since the cult singer-songwriter Nina Nastasia released her last album, Outlaster, in 2010. But today she’s announced that she has recorded a new full-length, Riderless Horse, which will be out digitally in the summer and physically in the fall. It was recorded after taking an extended break from music and after […]
Father John Misty – “The Next 20th Century”
In four short days, we get another nice, long look at whatever’s going on inside Josh Tillman’s brain. That’s when Chloë And The Next 20th Century, the long-awaited new Father John Misty album, finds its way into the world. Thus far, the Mist has already shared a generous handful of songs: “Funny Girl,” “Q4,” “Goodbye […]
Kevin Morby – “Swingin Party” (The Replacements Cover)
Kevin Morby launched a Substack newsletter when he released his most recent single “Rock Bottom” last week. For his 34th birthday yesterday, he shared a cover of the Replacements’ “Swingin Party” that he recorded on his phone in between doing press interviews for his upcoming new album This Is A Photograph. “I found myself fiddling […]
Hear New The Smile & Thom Yorke Songs Debuted On Peaky Blinders
Another new Smile song has made it out into the world. Kicking things off in January, the Smile have already given us “You Will Never Work In Television Again,” “The Smoke,” and “Skirting On The Surface.” All have ranked amongst our favorite songs in their respective weeks. Today they’ve unveiled another one via Peaky Blinders. […]
Stream Tree River’s Monstrously Catchy Emo Outpouring Time Being
Brooklyn’s Tree River play a poppy, expansive brand of emo that incorporates everything from rip-roaring pop-punk to twee blog-rock revivalism to twinkly, soaring TWIABP-style epics to late-’90s post-grunge radio hits to bold, breathy dream-pop. Time Being, their new album out today, is produced by Kevin Dye of gates and includes a guest feature from Say […]
Municipal Waste – “Grave Dive”
Take a celebratory Scrooge McDuck-style headfirst leap into the garbage pile because Richmond crossover thrash legends Municipal Waste have announced a new album today. Actually, maybe you should jump into a six-foot hole in the cemetery instead, seeing as their new song out today is called “Grave Dive.” The new album, Electrified Brain, is Municipal […]