This year, Johnny Noble and Amber Alexander, the two architects of the utopian rock project Blakk Mantra, have once again struck with the release of a new album Welcome To El Rey Blvd, and its main single , ‘Queen Of Infinite Space.’ This contemporary rock record was recorded in Austin, TX with The Machine. The […]
Ashley Sienna Releases New Pop Track Titled ‘When I’m Single’
Young singer and songwriter Ashley Sienna stepped up her game and dropped an electrifying song ‘When I’m Single.’ On the single, with an effortless approach, she explains why she needs no man, and is here for quite some time. Ashley delivered a liveful track that infects you with its positivity, feel-good vibe, and young power. […]
Badge Époque Ensemble – "Sing A Silent Gospel" (Feat. Meg Remy & Dorothea Paas)
Badge Époque Ensemble is an adventurous outfit out of Toronto led by Maximilian Turnbull, who used to record for DFA under the name Slim Twig. The band — which also features lots of musicians linked with U.S. Girls and Andy Shauf — is preparing to release its second album, Self Help, a set of jazzy, […]
ANOHNI – "R.N.C. 2020"
ANOHNI is no stranger to direct political statements. Her 2016 album Hopelessness included songs like “Obama” and “Drone Bomb Me,” intense offerings that eschewed subtlety in favor of high drama and no-holds-barred urgency. Today ANOHNI is back with “R.N.C. 2020,” a song inspired by last week’s Republican National Convention. It forgoes the bellowing experimental club […]
Anaiah Lei's One-Man Hardcore Project Zulu Releases New EP 'My People… Hold On': Stream
Zulu is a one-man project from Anaiah Lei, drummer of the LA rock duo the Bots and the Orange County hardcore band DARE. On his own, as Zulu, Lei makes frantic, intense, punishing hardcore, and he does it from a raw and vital perspective. Lei has said that he wants Zulu to be “a band […]
A. G. Cook – “Xxoplex”
Only a month after his massive 49-track septuple album 7G, producer and PC Music head honcho A. G. Cook is already getting ready to follow it up with a new, slightly more bite-sized LP called Apple. “Apple is my own take on Personal Computer Music,” Cook explains in a statement. “I’ve always been interested in […]
Hot Snakes – “Not In Time”
Anytime the convulsive Californian rock rippers Hot Snakes are in action, it’s good news. In 2000, Rick Froberg and John Reis formed Hot Snakes out of the ashes of their old band Drive Like Jehu. The band released three albums before breaking up in 2005. But two years ago, the reunited Hot Snakes released a […]
Japanese Breakfast's Michelle Zauner & Crying's Ryan Galloway Team Up On New Surprise EP
Some people spend lockdown doing absolutely nothing (me) and others spend it doing this. Japanese Breakfast’s Michelle Zauner and Crying’s Ryan Galloway started sending tracks back-and-forth to each other earlier this summer, and as Rolling Stone points out, today they’re releasing some of the fruits of those efforts: a four-song EP called pop songs 2020 […]
Devendra Banhart – “Franklin’s Tower” (Grateful Dead Cover)
In July, Devendra Banhart released Vast Ovoid, an EP of outtakes from his 2019 album Ma. He recently announced OLA: Devendra Banhart plays songs in the order they were written, a series of live concerts streaming every Wednesday. And now he’s back with an Amazon Original cover of the Grateful Dead’s “Franklin’s Tower” in honor […]
John Jeffrey – "Leaving Franklin"
John Jeffrey, the drummer for space-rockers Moon Duo — whose most recent album Stars Are The Light was named an Album Of The Week last year — has announced his debut solo album, Passage, made up of four expansive and improvisational instrumentals that he recorded with engineer Colin Stewart at the British Columbia-based studio The […]