British extreme-metal veterans Napalm Death are a true rarity: A band that remains vital and beloved, even though they’re decades past their most famous era and even though none of the people currently in the band are original members. Napalm Death were grindcore pioneers back in the ’80s, and they persist as brutalist elder statesmen […]
Vallyre Announces The Release Of Her Latest Single “Bloodsweat”
Vallyre’s passion for pop music is coming from her childhood when she used to take singing lessons at TrueVoice NYC Academy and by continuing to take vocal lessons at Iron Work Studios, she eventually dedicated her whole life to music. So today, this Boston-native singer and songwriter with her strong musical background, releases her latest […]
Stream Tyler Childers’ Protest-Minded Surprise Album Long Violent History
Ever since he released his 2017 album Purgatory, the Kentucky singer and songwriter Tyler Childers has been one of the biggest stars in the world of rootsy country music. (Childers doesn’t like the word “Americana”; he likes to be known as a country musician. But Childers is a lot closer on the spectrum to his […]
Aimee Mann – “Avalanche” (Leonard Cohen Cover)
Aimee Mann covered Leonard Cohen’s “Avalanche” for the theme music of HBO’s I’ll Be Gone In The Dark. The show is a documentary about Michelle McNamara, the true-crime author (and Patton Oswalt’s wife) whose posthumous book of the same name detailed her investigation into the Golden State Killer. McNamara died in 2016 of an accidental […]
Busta Rhymes – “YUUUU” (Feat. Anderson .Paak)
Sometime soon, the eternally energetic rap legend Busta Rhymes will release the new album Extinction Level Event 2: The Wrath Of God. Last month, Busta got Chris Rock to announce the album’s existence. On lead single “The Don & The Boss,” a song that’s mostly notable for the way Busta pronounces the phrase “Megan Thee […]
Pallbearer – “The Quicksand Of Existing”
Arkansas doom metal overlords Pallbearer are giving us their new album Forgotten Days, the follow-up to 2017’s masterful Heartless, in a little over a month. They recorded the LP with Sunn O)))/Earth producer Randall Dunn, and since announcing it in July, they’ve shared the title track and “Rite Of Passage.” Today they’re sharing one more, […]
Stream Kamaiyah & Capolow’s New Collaborative Mixtape Oakland Nights
It feels like a million years ago, but it was only seven months ago that the great Oakland rapper Kamaiyah released her extremely enjoyable mixtape Got It Made. That tape came out in Feburary, and Kamaiyah has since spent the pandemic era cranking out a stream of solid singles: “Go Crazy,” “Extravagant,” “Black Excellence.” Today, […]
Lykke Li – "I Will Survive" (Gloria Gaynor Cover)
Do you ever think about how Lykke Li released an album called so sad, so sexy? A little on the nose, don’t you think? It’s certainly a succinct summation of Li’s signature vibe, the aesthetic she has ably applied to a classic cover song today. Gloria Gaynor’s resilient disco anthem “I Will Survive,” a #1 […]
Osees Announce New LP 'Metamorphosed', Share New Single "Electric War": Listen
There’s a new Osees album out today. John Dwyer’s long-running Californian psychedelic-punk institution — also known as Oh Sees and Thee Oh Sees, among many other names — have just released the playfully frantic LP Protean Threat. They’ve been building up to that release for months. So now that Protean Threat is out in the […]
SALEM – "STARFALL"
Earlier this week, SALEM popped back into all of our lives when they used their official channels to post their recent STAY DOWN mixtape, which originally aired on NTS Radio back in May. The mix contained new material from the group, including an isolated track called “CAPULETS,” and it marked the first new proper SALEM […]