New Zealand pop singer Benee had a TikTok hit earlier this year with the topical “Supalonely,” a song about loneliness recorded before the pandemic. Today, she’s releasing a single directly inspired by being in isolation called “Snail,” which comes on the heels of last month’s Kenny Beats collab “Night Garden.” “Snail” is bright and bouncy. […]
Lo Tom – "Start Payin"
A few years ago, members of Pedro The Lion and Starflyer 59 teamed up for a new group called Lo Tom and released their debut album, also called Lo Tom, in 2017. Those musicians — Pedro’s David Bazan and TW Walsh and Starflyer’s Trey Many and Jason Martin — have recorded another album together, which […]
No Joy – "Dream Rats" (Feat. Arch Enemy's Alissa White-Gluz)
No Joy’s first new album in 5 years, Motherhood, is out at the end of the month. We’ve heard three tracks from it already — “Birthmark,” “Nothing Will Hurt,” and “Four” — and today we’re getting a fourth. “Dream Rats” features vocals from Alissa White-Gluz, the current lead vocalist of the Swedish death metal band […]
Bill Callahan – “Breakfast”
Next month, Bill Callahan will follow up last year’s Shepherd In A Sheepskin Vest with a new album called Gold Record. You can already hear most of it. Leading up to the Gold Record release, Callahan has been sharing one new song from the album every Monday morning. Last week, for instance, he dropped a […]
Hovvdy – "I'm Sorry"
Last month, Hovvdy released a new track, “Runner,” the Austin band’s first new material since last year’s great full-length Heavy Lifter. Today, they’re sharing another new song, which was also recorded with Bon Iver/Big Thief producer Andrew Sarlo. “I’m Sorry” continues down the duo’s path toward smeary, pop-leaning tracks. “Give me one good reason/ To […]
Best Coast Rerecord “Boyfriend” With More Inclusive Pronouns For Charity
Best Coast’s debut album Crazy For You just turned 10. And to celebrate, the band is releasing a new version of its classic opener “Boyfriend,” one of the best songs of the past decade. They rerecorded the track with new pronouns to make it more inclusive, and all proceeds will go to the Trevor Project. […]
Stream Terminal Nation’s Ridiculously Heavy New Album Holocene Extinction
The Arkansas band Terminal Nation make some brutally heavy and intense music. Terminal Nation have been releasing music since 2014, and they’ve left behind a bloody trail of grimy, nasty EPs. Listening back through their Bandcamp, you can hear a whole aesthetic evolution at work, as the band has moved from short, fast bursts of […]
Gag Announce New Album 'Still Laughing', Share Title Track: Listen
The Olympia, Washington band Gag make a ferociously ugly form of hardcore punk. You could be listening to them on headphones in a sterilized, empty Apple Store, and you’d still feel like you had basement-show funk accumulating in your pores. Gag have been around for the better part of a decade, and they’ve spun off […]
Krallice Release Surprise Album 'Mass Cathexis': Stream
For more than a decade, the New York band Krallice have combined forbidding, atmospheric black metal fury with experimental math-rock complexity. Most of the time, they’ve been wildly prolific. In 2017, for instance, Krallice released two albums — Go Be Forgotten on their own, and Loüm in collaboration with Neurosis member Dave Edwardson. But they’ve […]
Year Of The Knife Release Hellacious Debut Album 'Internal Incarceration': Stream
The young Delaware band Year Of The Knife make an absolutely brutal form of metallic hardcore. They play fast and ugly, bu they’re not a basement band. Instead, YOTK’s sound has the grand-scale ferocity of some of the best death metal. It’s a truly satisfying form of pulverization. Today, we get to hear it in […]