Back in January, Andy Shauf released his great new album The Neon Skyline. We named it Album Of The Week and it made our list of the best albums of 2020 so far. And since then, Shauf’s kept little bits of new music coming, a couple last words from the world of Neon Skyline. Starting […]
Hear Bill Callahan's New Version Of Smog's Classic "Let's Move To The Country"
Smog’s 1999 masterwork Knock Knock — which turned 20 years old last year and happens to be this week’s Sunday Review over at Pitchfork — begins with a spare, tense, flickering ballad called “Let’s Move To The Country,” presumably inspired by Bill Callahan’s residence in a South Carolina farmhouse with Cat Power’s Chan Marshall, a […]
Future & Lil Uzi Vert – “Over Your Head” & “Patek”
Yesterday was Lil Uzi Vert’s 26th birthday. Happy birthday, Lil Uzi Vert! To celebrate, he dropped two new tracks with Future, “Over Your Head” and “Patek.” The former is basically a melodic Uzi song over a burbling synthetic beat, while “Patek” — not to be confused with Uzi’s 2018 song “New Patek” — is basically […]
Róisín Murphy – “Something More”
In the years since the dissolution of her ’90s trip-hop duo Moloko, Irish singer Róisín Murphy has become one of the most dependably great dance-pop auteurs around. And today, she’s announcing a new album called Róisín Machine, the disco-house diva’s first full-length project since 2016’s Take Her Up To Monto. Murphy recorded Róisín Machine with […]
Stream Fall Of Messiah’s New Album Senicarne
For more than a decade, the French post-rock band Fall Of Messiah have made tingly, majestic post-rock that draws on screamo and metal, doing everything in their power to sound as huge as possible. Their songs are long and dynamic, and they build to whirling, crushing climaxes. Most of the time, there aren’t any vocals, […]
Black Noi$e – “Mutha Magick” (Feat. bbymutha)
Detroit producer Black Noi$e has signed to Earl Sweatshirt’s Tan Cressida imprint for his upcoming project Oblivion, making it the label’s first non-Earl Sweatshirt release ever. In a statement, Earl says: WE AT TAN CRESSIDA ARE BEYOND EXCITED TO ANNOUNCE OUR FIRST NON-SWEATSHIRT RELEASE EVER!!! BLACK NOI$E PRESENTS THE APTLY TITLED OBLIVION TO A RESTLESS […]
The Notwist – "Ship" (Feat. Saya)
German computer-pop greats the Notwist haven’t released new music since their Sub Pop-abetted 2014 comeback album Close To The Glass. But they’ll drop a new EP called Ship in August via Morr Music — billed as the precursor to a new LP — and today we’re hearing its title track. “Ship” is a pulsing, heavily […]
Hear The Stooges' "Fun House" From Unearthed Last Concert With Original Lineup
The Stooges’ original lineup played its final show on August 8, 1970 at the Goose Lake International Music Festival in Leoni Township, Michigan, an hour outside their native Detroit. As the legend goes, bassist Dave Alexander freaked out in front of the 200,000-strong audience and did not play a note on stage that night, which […]
Robert Plant – “Charlie Patton Highway (Turn it Up, Pt. 1)”
Robert Plant has announced a new career-spanning anthology called Digging Deep: Subterranean to celebrate the third season of his Digging Deep With Robert Plant podcast. The two-disc, 30-track set will feature three unreleased tracks including “Charlie Patton Highway (Turn It Up, Pt. 1),” which will also appear on Plant’s upcoming album Band Of Joy Volume […]
Former Operation Ivy Frontman Jesse Michaels' Band Classics Of Love Releases 'World Of Burning Hate' EP: Stream
Operation Ivy broke up in 1989, but the Berkeley ska-punk band’s influence lingered long after that. When I was in high school, copies of Op Ivy’s one album were basically issued to every teenager who showed the slightest interest in punk rock. After Op Ivy broke up, guitarist Tim Armstrong and bassist Matt Freeman went […]