One Band To Watch teaming up with another: It’s a beautiful thing. Porridge Radio, the Brighton indie-rockers who made a big splash with this year’s Every Bad, have linked up with their Chicago contemporaries Lala Lala on a new song called “Good For You.” Porridge Radio’s Dana Margolin and Lala Lala’s Lillie West recorded it […]
Soccer Mommy – “Drive” (The Cars Cover) & SASAMI – “Toxicity” (System Of A Down Cover)
Soccer Mommy released the great sophomore album color theory earlier this year, just before everything went to shit. Since she can’t tour behind it, she’s been doing something else: A series of split releases with friends that sends all proceeds to Oxfam’s COVID-19 relief fund and National Bail Out. In the Soccer Mommy & Friends […]
Black Marble Announces Covers EP 'I Must Be Living Twice', Shares New Version Of Wire's "In Manchester": Listen
Chris Stewart is a Los Angeles resident who releases stark, twitchy music under the name Black Marble. Musically, Black Marble draws on postpunk and synthpop, as well as the personal and lo-fi music that’s become its own internet-based underground phenomenon in the past couple of decades. Last year, Stewart released the Black Marble album Bigger […]
Shirley Collins – "Sweet Greens And Blues"
Last month, Shirley Collins announced her new album Heart’s Ease. It’s the followup to the legendary folk singer’s 2016 collection Lodestar, which in turn was her first album since the late ’70s. Now that she’s back to making music, apparently she’s not wasting any time. Along with the announcement of Heart’s Ease, Collins shared a […]
Mr Muthafuckin' eXquire – "Black Mirror" (Prod. Madlib)
It’s been a minute since we checked in with Brooklyn rapper Mr. Muthafuckin’ eXquire, but hopping on a new Madlib beat is cause for attention. “Black Mirror,” eXquire’s new Madlib-produced track out today, is as sun-baked and trippy as you’d hope, with bars that hit with steadiness and agility. It’s full of vivid and sometimes […]
Ty Dolla $ign's "Ego Death" Features Kanye, Skrillex, FKA twigs, & serpentwithfeet
Ty Dolla $ign has often functioned as a human crossroads for various corners of the musical mainstream. On his new single, he brings many of those corners together for a superstar posse cut. “Ego Death,” Ty’s new single out now, features a fascinating and impressive array of contributors. There is Kanye West, who has often […]
Emma Ruth Rundle – “Staying Power”
The Louisville musician Emma Ruth Rundle makes dark, heavy, beautiful music that doesn’t quite conform to any one particular genre. She’s probably closer to goth or folk than she is to metal, but she’s still plenty comfortable operating within the metal world. Last month, Rundle, for instance, teamed up with members of bands like Mastodon, […]
Stream The Grateful Dead's New Outtakes Collection 'Workingman's Dead: The Angel's Share'
Next week the Grateful Dead will release a 50th anniversary deluxe reissue of their 1970 country-folk pivot Workingman’s Dead, one of the legendary studio albums from a band known mostly for its live show. That release comprises a new remaster of the original LP plus a full-length concert recorded on February 21, 1971 at the […]
Jason Molina – “The Mission’s End”
Jason Molina, the beloved songwriter behind the long-running indie rock projects Songs: Ohia and Magnolia Electric Co., battled alcoholism for his entire career, and he died of organ failure in 2013, when he was just 39. In his lifetime, Molina was a truly prolific songwriter, and he left behind troves of unreleased material when he […]
Fear Of Men – "Into Strangeness"
We haven’t heard from Fear Of Men since the band released their sophomore album, Fall Forever, back in 2016. That record made our Best Albums Of The Year So Far list when it came out, and in the time since it seems that the band has only become more glowering and precise. Today, they’re releasing […]