Early on Thursday morning, Taylor Swift announced a new album and just like that, it’s here. Her follow-up to last year’s Lover was recorded over the last few months during lockdown, and the majority of the tracks were co-written and produced by the National’s Aaron Dessner. The rest were handled by Jack Antonoff and someone […]
Thundercat Wrote A Song For The 'Thundercats' Reboot
Thundercat’s namesake ThunderCats returned for a new Cartoon Network series called ThunderCats Roar a few months ago. Today, the show held a virtual [email protected] panel, where it was revealed that Thundercat himself has a role in an upcoming episode as a villain known as Grune The Destroyer, who was also in the original ’80s series. […]
J Balvin, Dua Lipa, Bad Bunny, & Tainy – "Un Día (One Day)"
J Balvin has been steadily rolling out videos from his Colores album since last year, but today he has one for a wholly new song not on the LP. It’s got a hell of a guest list, too. “Un Día (One Day)” features a hook from Dua Lipa, fresh off her own recent album Future […]
Fruit Bats – "Today" (Smashing Pumpkins Cover)
Eric D. Johnson revived his longstanding indie-folk project Fruit Bats in 2015, just two years after discontinuing it. Lately he’s busied himself with Bonny Light Horseman, his supergroup alongside Hadestown creator Anaïs Mitchell and sideman extraordinaire Josh Kaufman (Craig Finn, the National, Muzz, etc.). But now he has a new Fruit Bats project on the […]
Jaga Jazzist – “Tomita”
Norwegian experimental jazz collective Jaga Jazzist are releasing their new album Pyramid next month. They’ve already shared one single, the sprawling, synthed-out “Spiral Era.” And now we’re getting another. “Tomita,” a blissfully spacey groove named after the Japanese synthesizer music pioneer Isao Tomita, comes with an animated music video directed by Jengo. “The upbeat pace […]
Bartees Strange – “Mustang”
Bartees Strange is a young musician based in Washington, DC. He makes intense emo-punk records and works as an environmental lobbyist, and he’s spent much of 2020 covering the work of the National. Back in March, Strange released Goodbye To Pretty Boy, an album of reimagined versions of songs by the National. Earlier this month, […]
Ricky Reed, Jim James, & Duendita – "Us (How Sweet It Was)"
Although he spent many years in the late ’00s and early ’10s attempting to break through with his Oakland-based pop-leaning hip-hop project Wallpaper., Ricky Reed found his true calling this past decade as a go-to producer for acts such as Lizzo, Twenty One Pilots, Meghan Trainor, the Weeknd, Jason Derulo, and Halsey. He’s worked with […]
Andy Shauf – “Judy” & “Jeremy’s Wedding”
Canadian singer-songwriter Andy Shauf released his latest LP The Neon Skyline, a concept album about a guy who goes to his local dive bar, finds out that his ex is back in town, and eventually runs into her, earlier this year. We named it Album Of The Week when it came out in January. And […]
Kylie Minogue Announces New Album 'Disco', Shares New Single "Say Something": Listen
Today, the long-tenured Australian dance-pop queen Kylie Minogue — the one true Kylie, no matter what anyone else might say — has announced that she’s got a new album called Disco coming out this fall. The new LP follows 2018’s Golden, and Minogue recorded it with longtime producer Biff Stannard, who co-wrote the Spice Girls’ […]
J. Cole – “The Climb Back” & “Lion King On Ice”
Fresh off of his recent single “Snow On Tha Bluff” and its attendant unnecessary quasi-beef with Noname, J. Cole is back with more new music. Cole has been working on and teasing his upcoming album The Fall Off for a couple of years now, and today he’s finally sharing the first two tracks from it. […]