Stephen Malkmus has been on a hell of run, dropping three distinct albums in as many years. First came 2018’s straightforwardly indie-rockin’ Jicks offering Sparkle Hard, then 2019’s loosely electronic solo joint Groove Denied, then this year’s rootsy Traditional Techniques. That’s a lot of music, but given the troves of bonus material that accompanied each […]
Stream Mr. Husband's New Album 'Hey Sufjan, You Took Too Long So I Went Ahead And Made West Virginia'
Sufjan Stevens is never going to finish his 50 States project. He never was. Everyone knows this. Although the legendary singer-songwriter and composer rose to fame largely on the strength of 2003’s Michigan and 2005’s Illinois and an ambitious quest to record an album about each state in the Union, by 2009 he was telling […]
King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard – “Straws In The Wind”
Right now, the Australian psych-rock troupe King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard is in a state of transition. Last month, the band announced that drummer and manager Eric Moore was departing the band, leaving them with only one drummer. (The photo that you see above is the new-look six-member lineup.) But the Lizard Wizard are […]
Sufjan Stevens – "Sugar"
It’s been more than five years since Sufjan Stevens released his last proper solo album, the hushed and ghostly acoustic lament Carrie & Lowell. That drought will end next week with the release of a lengthy and electronically inclined new opus called The Ascension. Sufjan has already shared two songs from the project, the doleful […]
Jeff Tweedy – "Guess Again" & "Love Is The King"
Jeff Tweedy is a prolific man. Since 2018, he has released a memoir, two sister albums, and a new Wilco album — and that’s just the stuff with his name up top, let alone all the production work and extracurricular hijinks he’s up to at any given moment. He’s already got a new book, How […]
Clairo – “You’ve Got A Friend” (Carole King Cover)
Is it possible that the internet-friendly young bedroom-pop stars of today are just the current version of ’70s-style singer-songwriters? That this is just how the people who make circa-now pop are expressing intimacy and sensitivity? Maybe? I don’t know. But today, we’ve got one of the big names in the SoundCloud-pop universe covering one of […]
Lande Hekt – "Whiskey"
Lande Hekt fronts the fearsome Band To Watch Muncie Girls, who have released two albums — 2016’s From Caplan To Belsize and 2018’s Fixed Ideals — and a B-sides EP, The Point, which came out earlier this year. She also puts out music on her own. Last fall, she released her first solo EP, Gigantic […]
Porridge Radio – "7 Seconds"
Porridge Radio, the Brighton, UK indie rock Band To Watch, spent the pre-pandemic segment of 2020 rolling out their phenomenal sophomore album Every Bad. Under lockdown, Dana Margolin’s project has continued to crank out new tunes. They shared “Good For You,” a collaboration with Lala Lala, in July. And now, as Pitchfork points out, they’re […]
The Mountain Goats – "Get Famous"
Next month, the Mountain Goats are releasing a new album, Getting Into Knives, the project’s second new album of the year following the lo-fi Songs For Pierre Chuvin that came out in April. A few weeks ago, we got its lead single, “As Many Candles As Possible,” and today we’re getting another new track, “Get […]
The Avalanches – "Music Makes Me High" & "Take Care In Your Dreaming" (Feat. Denzel Curry, Tricky, & Sampa The Great)
The Avalanches took 16 years to follow-up their classic debut Since I Left You with Wildflower, but it’ll only take four years and some change for them to follow up that. Today, the Australian group are officially announcing their new album, We Will Always Love You — it will be out in December. They started […]