A couple weeks ago, Bob Dylan dropped a 17-minute song called “Murder Most Foul” out of nowhere. It was an extended rumination on the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and it topped our list of the best songs of the week. When it came out, he said that he and his band had recorded the […]
Stream Fiona Apple's New Album 'Fetch The Bolt Cutters'
For years, Fiona Apple fans were starved for information about the follow-up to 2012’s The Idler Wheel… Then, a month ago, Apple dumped just about everything we could want to know about the new album into one massive interview feature: the creative process, the song titles, the backstory, the collaborators. Just about the only thing […]
Big Thief Share Unreleased Demos To Support Tour Crew During Pandemic
Big Thief have shared a collection of unreleased demos that were recorded during the same sessions that produced last year’s double whammy of U.F.O.F. and Two Hands. They include three new Big Thief songs — “Mermaid,” “Over,” and “Live Young” — and two full-band versions of tracks that appeared on Adrianne Lenker’s 2018 solo album […]
Alice Bag – "Spark"
Next week, Alice Bag is releasing a new album, Sister Dynamite, the follow-up to her 2018 sophomore solo album Blueprint. The Los Angeles punk has shared “Breadcrumbs” and the title track from it so far, and today she put out another one, “Spark,” a rousing track about individuality and refusing to be beaten down. “Even […]
Tom Misch & Yussef Dayes – "Nightrider" (Feat. Freddie Gibbs)
London singer-songwriter Tom Misch and jazz drummer Yussef Dayes are teaming up for a collaborative album called What Kinda Music, out next week via Beyond The Groove/Blue Note. Early instrumental tracks already “Lift Off” and “Kyiv” already showcased their intoxicating blend of jazz, funk, and hip-hop idioms. And now they’re upping the rap quotient with […]
Kehlani – “Everybody Business”
Last month, the Californian R&B star Kehlani released her single “Toxic,” a not-so-fond farwell to a bad relationship. (She’d just broken up, contentiously, with YG.) In the early days of quarantine, Kehani also shot her own grainy solo video for the track, which caused a stir in some of the hornier corners of the internet. […]
Playboi Carti – "@ MEH"
Playboi Carti sent Rap Twitter into a frenzy this week when he tweeted what appears to be an album cover. This image, viewable above, seemed to hint that the follow-up to Carti’s great and influential 2018 debut album Die Lit was near. (At one point Carti’s next album was supposed to be called Whole Lotta […]
Hayley Williams – "Why We Ever"
At this point Paramore’s Hayley Williams has already released eight songs from her solo debut album Petals For Armor. If the rollout method has diffused the anticipation a bit, it has also given each track its own chance to shine. Today, the spotlight turns to “Why We Ever,” a synth ballad that gorgeously transforms into […]
Self Defense Family – "Florida Trip" & "Tissue Thin"
Albany post-hardcore collective Self Defense Family put out their Performative Guilt EP nearly a year ago to the day. And now, after trawling through their archives, they’re back with two songs collected in a new release called Kitten Beach. As the band explain in a statement on Bandcamp: We’re cleaning out our hard drives for […]
The Magnetic Fields – “(I Want to Join A) Biker Gang”
Next month, the Magnetic Fields will release an album that isn’t an album at all. Quickies, the new collection from Stephin Merritt’s longtime cleverness-pop project, is a box set that’ll feature 28 songs — all under three minutes — spread over five EPs. We’ve already posted the early tracks “The Day The Politicians Died” and […]