Long-sideburned Texas-based singer-songwriter Jerry David DeCicca announced his new album The Unlikely Optimist And His Domestic Adventures over the summer with the ominously thudding lead single “I See Horizons.” The project’s second advance track is much more light and playful. It’s a rootsy jaunt called “Texas Toad,” over before you can finish DeCicca’s charming anecdote: […]
Total Revenge – "Jeep Cherokee"
At the end of the week, Ryan Pollie is releasing his debut album as Total Revenge, his scrappy new pop-punk project. He’s shared two singles from it already, “The Fair” and “The Lawn,” and today he’s sharing one last track before the whole thing’s out in full. “Jeep Cherokee” is dense and bittersweet, a chugging […]
Respire Announce New Album 'Black Line', Share New Single "Tempest": Listen
These days, a lot of DIY bands are exploring the place where the tectonic plates of screamo, black metal, and post-rock all rub up against one another, producing some huge and impressive musical earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. If you’re into bands like Deafheaven and Envy and Infant Island, then you owe it to yourself to […]
Dev Hynes, Porches, & Lydia Ainsworth Remix Girlpool's "Like I'm Winning It"
Earlier this year, Girlpool released the one-off single “Like I’m Winning It,” which brought the band’s sound in a moodier, dancey direction. It sounded primed for a remix, and today the band has shared an EPs worth of three different ones. Dev Hynes, Porches, and Lydia Ainsworth all provided their own versions of the track. […]
JPEGMAFIA – “Last Dance!”
Last year, the Baltimore rap expressionist JPEGMAFIA released his frantic, jagged album All My Heroes Are Cornballs. Since then, Peggy has been releasing a steady string of one-off singles that have shifted his sound in a more melodic direction, singing through Auto-Tune without losing his fundamental unpredictable weirdness. In recent months, he’s released tracks like […]
Stream Deli Girls' New Album 'BOSS'
Over the last few years, the Brooklyn-based duo Deli Girls — made up of Danny Orlowski and Tommi Kelly — have put out a series of aggressive and antagonistic electronic releases, including last year’s full-length I Don’t Know How To Be Happy and their especially great self-titled EP from 2016. This past week, they released […]
Saweetie – "Tap In" (Feat. Post Malone, DaBaby, & Jack Harlow)
Santa Clara rapper Saweetie has a hit on rap radio with the bass-bombed hyphy track “Tap In,” the follow-up to her 2019 breakthrough “My Type” and the lead single from her forthcoming debut album Pretty Bitch Music. The swaggering, Too Short-sampling “Tap In” has climbed as far as #40 on the Hot 100, and with […]
Stream Bbymutha’s New Album Muthaland
Chattanooga rapper Bbymutha recently popped up as the featured MC on producer Black Noi$e’s song “Mutha Magick,” which topped one of our Best Songs Of The Week lists earlier this month. And now she’s back with a new project of her own, Muthaland, a 25-track album with five skits threaded throughout. On Twitter, Bbymutha says […]
Andrew Bird Reunites With Squirrel Nut Zippers After 22 Years
Before he became a mainstay of the tasteful, NPR-friendly indie firmament, the whistling, violin-wielding chamber-pop king Andrew Bird was a member of the quirky ’90s swing revival band Squirrel Nut Zippers. That band is still going more than two decades later, and today they’ve shared their first song with Bird in 22 years. “Train On […]
ME REX's 'Triceratops' EP Has The Anxiously Wordy British Guitar Anthems You Didn't Know You Needed
Myles McCabe is a guitarist for the punchy, poppy London emo band Fresh. His solo project ME REX is a bit darker and wordier but shares Fresh’s penchant for surging gargantuan hooks. The resulting indie guitar tracks split the difference between the anxious euphoria of Los Campesinos! and the hearty catharsis of Frightened Rabbit — […]