Dua Lipa released Future Nostalgia, a collection of killer dance-pop songs and one of the best albums of 2020 so far, earlier this year. And last week, she announced Club Future Nostalgia, a full-length remix album created in collaboration with the Blessed Madonna, the DJ and producer formerly known as the Black Madonna. The remix […]
Elvis Costello – “We Are All Cowards Now”
Right before the pandemic hit, Elvis Costello travelled to Helsinki and recorded several songs alone in the studio, playing every instrument by himself. We’ve already heard two songs from that solo session, “No Flag” and “Hetty O’Hara Confidential.” Today, he’s shared the third and final bulletin from “the Helsinki Sound,” a track called “We Are […]
Alice Glass – “Nightmares”
NYC experimental electronic label Sermon 3 Recordings is celebrating its fourth birthday with Sermon 4 Anniversary, a compilation featuring the 83rd, DJ Deeon, Via App, NETER//MRTRU3LOV3, and more. It opens with a new track from Alice Glass, an intense churn of grinding digital noise that somehow sill manages to resemble a pop banger. “If this […]
Reunited Mr. Bungle Announce Their First Record In 21 Years, A Re-Recorded Version Of Their 1986 Thrash-Metal Demo
Before he joined Faith No More, Michael Patton was the singer for the Eureka, California avant-metal band Mr. Bungle. Patton kept Mr. Bungle going even after he’d found stardom with Faith No More, releasing some of the weirdest major-label music of the ’90s. Mr. Bungle broke up in the early ’00s, but they came back […]
Svalbard – “Listen To Someone”
The Bristol band Svalbard make a towering, beautiful, pummeling sound that doesn’t really fit into any particular genre. They pull from hardcore, from shoegaze, from post-rock, and from black metal, and they transform all of it into a majestic, cathartic blur. Next month, the band is coming back with a new album called When I […]
Sufjan Stevens – “Video Game”
Next month, Sufjan Stevens will return with The Ascension, his first proper album since 2015’s Carrie & Lowell. Stevens has already shared “America,” the massive 12-minute closing song that perversely stands as the album’s first single, as well as the non-album track “My Rajneesh.” Today, Stevens has followed it up with the new song “Video […]
Ciara Shares Striking Video For Her New Protest Song "Rooted": Watch
A few weeks ago, Ciara gave birth to her son Win. Last night, she shared a video that she evidently recorded while she was very, very pregnant. Ciara’s new song “Rooted” is a statement of Black pride, a clear statement of solidarity with the protest movement that’s swept across America and the rest of the […]
The Japanese House – "Dionne" (Feat. Justin Vernon)
Last year, the English musician Amber Bain released Good At Falling, her debut full-length as the Japanese House, which was full of slick and dreamy pop songs that paid off the promise of Bain’s early EPs. Today, she’s returning to the format she started out with by releasing a new EP called Chewing Cotton Wool. […]
Blue Hawaii – "I Felt Love"
Raphaelle Standell-Preston certainly keeps busy. A couple months ago, she released an excellent new full-length with her band Braids, Shadow Offering, which was our Album Of The Week when it came out. At the beginning of the year, she put out two new songs as Blue Hawaii, her duo with Alex “Agor” Kerby, and those […]
Knot – "Horse Trotting, The Feet Not Touching The Ground"
Last month, the former members of Krill announced they were reforming (and expanding their lineup) as a new band called Knot. Their self-titled debut is out at the end of the month, and so far we’ve heard two tracks from it, “Foam” and “The World.” Today, the quartet returns with another, “Horse Trotting, The Feet […]