Gladie — the new-ish project fronted by Cayetana’s Augusta Koch — released their debut album, Safe Sins, at the beginning of the year. They followed it up a few months later with the Orange Peel EP and now, a couple months after that, Gladie have put out another new EP, Thank You Card., which contains […]
New Jersey Punks Teenage Halloween Release Soaring Self-Titled Debut Album: Stream
Teenage Halloween are a band from Asbury, New Jersey who make big, hearty, hooks-out punk rock. The band’s style is grand and sincere, and it recalls gruff pop-punk overlords like Hot Water Music and Alkaline Trio, as well as ’90s Jersey greats like Lifetime and the Bouncing Souls. Per their Bandcamp page, Teenage Halloween write […]
Armani Caesar Releases Griselda Records Debut Album 'The Liz': Stream
The Buffalo rap label and crew Griselda Records has been on an absolute tear lately, carving out a mainstream-adjacent space for raw and guttural ’90s-style neck-jerk music. Griselda has also gone into overdrive on releasing new music. Last month, new Griselda recruit Boldy James released The Versace Tape, his first effort for the label. Last […]
Puscifer – "The Underwhelming"
Now that the new Tool and A Perfect Circle albums are out of the way, Maynard James Keenan is back to focusing on Puscifer, the one-time bizarre sideshow that now seems like the project he’s most invested in. The first Puscifer album in five years, Existential Reckoning, is set to drop at the end of […]
Napalm Death Release Killer New Album 'Throes Of Joy In The Jaws Of Defeatism': Stream
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, […]