T.I. and Young Thug are both vastly influential Atlanta rap hitmakers, but the two come from vastly different generations, and they have vastly different aesthetics. Still, Tip and Thug have always made a weird kind of sense together. Way back in 2014, they teamed up on “About The Money,” a great single that helped propel […]
James Blake Releases His Cover Of Frank Ocean's "Godspeed": Listen
If you had helped Frank Ocean make a classic, you would probably take every available opportunity to remind people of that fact. James Blake helped Frank Ocean make a classic. Back in 2016, Ocean released his album Blonde, and James Blake co-produced and played on a handful of songs from the LP. One of those […]
Annie – "The Streets Where I Belong"
Annie, who was every indie music blogger’s favorite pop singer back in 2004 on the strength of debut album Anniemal, is emerging out of Norway next month with Dark Hearts, her first album in 11 years. She has already shared three songs from the project — “American Cars,” “The Bomb,” and the title track — […]
Nothing – "Say Less"
Nothing have just announced a new album called The Great Dismal, the Philadelphia shoegaze band’s followup to 2018’s Dance On The Blacktop. They’ve once again teamed up with Will Yip, who produced their sophomore album Tired Of Tomorrow, and there’s contributions on the new one from Alex G, Mary Lattimore, and Shelley Weiss. “The Great […]
Kacey Musgraves Joins Flaming Lips On "God And The Policeman": Stream
Way back in May, longtime Oklahoma City psych-rock travelers the Flaming Lips teamed up with an unexpected collaborator: Grammy-anointed country star and fellow LSD enthusiast Kacey Musgraves. Musgraves sang on the Lips’ single “Flowers Of Neptune 6,” and though the band hadn’t announced their new album American Head yet, that Musgraves duet was the the […]
Gillian Welch – "Beautiful Boy" & "I Just Want You To Know"
And the Gillian Welch archival releases keep on coming. A couple months ago, Welch and her partner David Rawlings released Boots No. 2: The Lost Songs, Vol. 1, the follow-up to her 2016 double album Boots No. 1: The Official Revival Bootleg, made up of songs that were written in between 2001’s Time (The Revelator) […]
Disturbed – "If I Ever Lose My Faith In You" (Sting Cover)
Disturbed have released a cover of Sting’s 1993 Grammy-winning track “If I Ever Lose My Faith in You.” The band had quite a bit of success with a cover of Simon & Garfunkel’s “The Sound Of Silence” a few years ago — it became their highest-charting song on the Billboard Hot 100 when it came […]
Cloud Nothings – “American Idiot” (Green Day Cover)
i did an upsetting cover song for @stereogum 's covers compilation – it, uh, wasn't really in the spirit of the tunes on the comp, so here it is all by its lonesome. gonna leave it up for a couple days, all proceeds going to the save stereogum cause https://t.co/LF8SVk6sOs — Cloud Nothings (@cloudnothings) September […]
Miranda Winters – “Little Baby Dead Bird”
Melkbelly’s Miranda Winters released her debut solo tape Xobeci, What Grows Here? a couple of years ago. In a few weeks, she’s putting out a new 7″ single, her first new music written since the birth of her daughter. And today, she’s sharing the B-side, a stark, powerful piece of music called “Little Baby Dead […]
TOBACCO – “Jinmenken”
In addition to his work as the frontman of Black Moth Super Rainbow, Tom Fec takes the BMSR synth-psych aesthetic into scuzzier directions under the auspices of his solo project Tobacco. But with his new album Hot, Wet & Sassy, his first since 2016’s Sweatbox Dynasty (not counting last year’s Aesop Rock collab Malibu Ken), […]