Secret’s out: Secret Machines will return this summer with their first album in 12 years. Upon releasing some new tracks back in 2010, the proggy space-rock cult favorites teased an LP called The Moth, The Lizard And The Secret Machines. This is not that. The group’s fourth full-length is instead titled Awake In The Brain […]
Burna Boy – ''Wonderful''
Last year, Burna Boy released a really great album, African Giant, which propelled the popular Nigerian musician into a different stratosphere and garnered him his first Grammy nomination for Best World Music Album. He’s gearing up to release a new album called Twice As Tall, later this year, and today he’s released a single from […]
Ben Folds Shares New Song "2020": Listen
If you can believe it, 2020 is not even halfway over. (Almost there, but as we’ve found out, a lot can change in a week!) Ben Folds is feeling the same way, and today he’s released a song called “2020” reflecting on how hellish this year has been so far. “We’re not repeating history, just […]
Hear Prince's Previously Unreleased "Witness 4 The Prosecution (Version 1)" From Massive New 'Sign O' The Times' Deluxe Edition
Following last year’s super deluxe expanded reissue of 1999, the Prince estate is once again partnering with Warner Records to give the Purple One’s 1987 double album Sign O’ The Times the same treatment. Sign O’ The Times was born out of the sessions for three different shelved albums, Dream Factory, Camille, and Crystal Ball, […]
Tigers Jaw – “Warn Me”
While Adam McIlwee, Dennis Mishko, and Pat Brier of the classic Tigers Jaw lineup recently started a new band called Pray For Pain and put out their debut EP, the actual current Tigers Jaw recently finished working on their sixth full-length album, once again collaborating with longtime producer Will Yip. They’ve also signed to Hopeless […]
Dixie Chicks Change Name To The Chicks, Share New Song "March March"
When pop-country stars Lady Antebellum changed their name to Lady A earlier this month — recognizing the word “antebellum” as a racially insensitive reference to the pre-Civil War era when slavery remained legal in the United States — two immediate questions arose. One was: What about the Black singer who was already using the name […]
Le Tigre's JD Samson & Faith No More's Roddy Bottum Launch New Band Crickets, Share New Single "Elastic": Listen
There’s a new supergroup out in the world. Last year, Le Tigre’s JD Samson formed a new trio called Crickets. The group also features Roddy Bottum, the Faith No More keyboardist and Imperial Teen leader, as well as Michael O’Neill, Samson’s bandmate in MEN, a band that released a couple of electro-pop albums in the […]
Bent Arcana – “Misanthrope Gets Lunch”
Bent Arcana is a new improvisatory collective led by Oh Sees leader John Dwyer and featuring an eclectic roster of musicians including Ryan Sawyer, Peter Kerlin, Brad Caulkins, Tom Dolas, Marcos Rodriguez, Laena “Geronimo” Myers-Ionita, Joce Soubiran, Andres Renteria, and TV On The Radio’s Kyp Malone. They introduced their self-titled debut album earlier this month […]
Eric Church – “Stick That In Your Country Song”
For the past decade-plus, the country superstar Eric Church has carved out a niche for himself as a sort of outsider’s Nashville insider, a rebel who fills arenas while operating within the pop-country system. That’s been working out for him. Church released Desperate Man, his last album, a couple of years ago, but right now […]
Oceanator – “A Crack In The World”
Brooklyn-based musician Elise Okusami has announced Things I Never Said, her debut album as Oceanator. The album was originally supposed to come out on Tiny Engines a few months ago, but after the label came under fire last year, it’s now being released this summer via Okusami’s own Plastic Miracles imprint. And today, she’s sharing […]