Eve Owen is a 20-year-old British singer-songwriter whose debut album Don’t Let The Ink Dry is coming out next week on Justin Vernon and Aaron Dessner’s 37d03d label. Dessner also produced the album at his Long Pond Studio in the Hudson Valley, and judging from early singles like “Blue Moon,” it’s going to be good. […]
Dashboard Confessional – "Circles" (Post Malone Cover)
Back in the before times, Dashboard Confessional stopped by New York’s famed Electric Lady Studios to participate in the Spotify Singles series, in which artists perform one of their own songs and a cover. The results of that session have gone live today. Dashboard’s Spotify Singles happen to touch on two recent musical milestones: The […]
Nick Cave – "Cosmic Dancer" (T. Rex Cover)
A few weeks ago, Saturday Night Live sketch music producer Hal Willner passed away from coronavirus. For many years, he had been working on a star-studded T. Rex tribute album, in the same vein as many other compilations that Willner had put together over the last couple decades honoring various artists. Today, that compilation is […]
Big Thief – "Love In Mine"
In U.F.O.F. and Two Hands, Big Thief released two of 2019’s finest albums, and it turns out they had even more great music from that era in the can. Two weeks ago, the band released a set of 2018 demos to benefit their road crew, who are out of work right now with coronavirus halting […]
Four Tet Shares New Loosies On Soundcloud, Including Destiny's Child & Erykah Badu Edits
Four Tet just released a new album last month, Sixteen Oceans — it’s pretty good! — and today Kieran Hebden is back with a whole bunch of loose new tracks that he’s uploaded to his SoundCloud page. There are new versions of existing songs, like a different take on the There Is Love In You […]
Bell Witch & Aerial Ruin Announce Collaborative Album 'Stygian Bough Volume I', Share New Song "Heaven Torn Low II (The Toll)": Listen
Back in 2017, the Seattle doom duo Bell Witch released the huge, immersive album Mirror Reaper — one single 84-minute track inspired by the death of former drummer Adrien Guerra. That album was a monster. In a couple of months, Bell Witch will return with a follow-up, but they aren’t coming back alone. On the […]
Retirement Party Shares New Song "Compensation": Listen
Just a couple weeks ago, Band To Watch honorees Retirement Party announced their sophomore album, Runaway Dog, the follow-up to 2018’s Somewhat Literate. Its lead single and title track made our best songs of the week list, and today the Chicago band are already back with another new song from the album. “Compensation” is bashing, […]
Painted Zeros – “Break”
In about a month’s time, Painted Zeroes — the project of the Brooklyn-based musician Katie Lau — are releasing a new album, When You Found Forever, the follow-up to 2015’s Floriography. We heard one song from it, “Commuter Rage,” last month, and today we’re getting another one, “Break,” a gorgeous swirl of guitars and muted […]
Mykki Blanco – "You Will Find It" (Feat. Devendra Banhart)
Late last year, Mykki Blanco returned with their first new song since their 2016 debut Mykki, “Lucky (Live In London).” Earlier this month, they returned with another new one called “Patriarchy Aint The End Of Me.” Both were supposedly examples of a whole bunch of new music Blanco had been working on in the last […]
Infant Island – “Content”
Infant Island absolutely rule. The Fredricksburg, Virginia band draws from late-’90s screamo to make an urgent, noisy, towering form of cathartically bugged-out basement rock. Earlier month, they released a towering EP called Sepulcher. That was the first part of a deluge. The second part will arrive next month, when Infant Island follow up their great […]