Chattanooga rapper Bbymutha recently popped up as the featured MC on producer Black Noi$e’s song “Mutha Magick,” which topped one of our Best Songs Of The Week lists earlier this month. And now she’s back with a new project of her own, Muthaland, a 25-track album with five skits threaded throughout. On Twitter, Bbymutha says […]
Andrew Bird Reunites With Squirrel Nut Zippers After 22 Years
Before he became a mainstay of the tasteful, NPR-friendly indie firmament, the whistling, violin-wielding chamber-pop king Andrew Bird was a member of the quirky ’90s swing revival band Squirrel Nut Zippers. That band is still going more than two decades later, and today they’ve shared their first song with Bird in 22 years. “Train On […]
ME REX's 'Triceratops' EP Has The Anxiously Wordy British Guitar Anthems You Didn't Know You Needed
Myles McCabe is a guitarist for the punchy, poppy London emo band Fresh. His solo project ME REX is a bit darker and wordier but shares Fresh’s penchant for surging gargantuan hooks. The resulting indie guitar tracks split the difference between the anxious euphoria of Los Campesinos! and the hearty catharsis of Frightened Rabbit — […]
Olympia Punk Band Gag Releases New Album 'Still Laughing': Stream
The Olympia band Gag make fast, grimy, gloriously ugly hardcore punk; if you listen to their music with your headphones on and your eyes closed, you can practically smell the mildewy basement-space venues where nobody ever cleans up the spilled beer. It’s been four years since Gag released America’s Greatest Hits, their last album, though […]
Cartalk – "Las Manos"
Last year, Cartalk — the project of the Los Angeles-based musician Chuck Moore — released three stellar singles — “Noonday Devil,” “Wrestling,” and “Sleep.” All three songs appear on their upcoming debut album, Pass Like Pollen, which will be out in October and, like those singles, it was produced by Illuminati Hotties’ Sarah Tudzin. Today, […]
The Flaming Lips – "Mother Please Don't Be Sad"
The Flaming Lips are releasing a new album, American Head, in a couple of weeks. They’ve shared a ton of tracks from it already: “My Religion Is You,” “Dinosaurs On The Mountain,” “You N’ Me Sellin’ Weed,” “Will You Return/When You Come Down,” and the Kacey Musgraves-featuring “Flowers Of Neptune 6.” Today they’re sharing another […]
Necrot Release Bloodthirsty New Death Metal Album 'Mortal': Stream
This one is for all my death metal posers out there — all my people who are at least theoretically into the blastbeats-and-grunts genre spawned by Floridian goons like Death and Morbid Angel and Obituary but who barely keep up with the stuff. There are people who stay up on every new development in the […]
The National's Bryan Devendorf Just Surprise Released His Solo Debut
After the relatively quick one-two of Sleep Well Beast and I Am Easy To Find, it seemed as if the National had closed a specific chapter of their career. So now, as they did between Trouble Will Find Me and Sleep Well Beast, it appears they’re taking some time for their own projects. Aaron Dessner […]
Hear Tears For Fears' Previously Unreleased "Rhythm Of Life"
Last week, Tears For Fears announced a super deluxe box set reissue of their 1989 studio album The Seeds Of Love featuring 22 unreleased tracks of demos, live jams, studio sessions, B-sides, and rare mixes. And today, they’re sharing the first of those, a previously unreleased demo of “Rhythm Of Life.” The song took over […]
Hear The Replacements' Previously Unreleased "I.O.U." Demo
The Replacements’ deluxe reissue of late-career gem Pleased To Meet Me contains 29 previously unreleased tracks. A slew of rough mixes were revealed when the project was announced, and today another unheard recording has emerged: a demo version of album opener “I.O.U.” Earlier this month they also dropped the demo for “I Don’t Know.” You […]