Earlier this year, Australian studio wizards the Avalanches put out two new tracks, “Running Red Lights” (with Rivers Cuomo and Pink Siifu) and “We Will Always Love You” (with Blood Orange). They had a whole big billboard put up in Melbourne and everything, though chances are that whatever they had planned got derailed because of, […]
Fenne Lily Recruits Lucy Dacus For New Single "Berlin": Listen
Bristol upstart Fenne Lily will release BREACH, her second album and first since signing to Dead Oceans, two months from now. She’s shared some impressive selections from the album thus far, as well as “Hypochondriac,” which isn’t on the album but is also impressive. Today she released “Berlin,” billed as the new album’s focal point, […]
Madeline Kenney – "Picture Of You"
Next week, Madeline Kenney is releasing her third album, Sucker’s Lunch. It’s her second one in a row that was produced with Wye Oak’s Jenn Wasner (and, this time, her bandmate Andy Stack), and we talked to Wasner about what it was like to work with Kenney in our recent interview with her. Today, we’re […]
H.C. McEntire – “Final Bow”
Next month, H.C. McEntire is releasing her sophomore solo album, Eno Axis, the follow-up to 2018’s LIONHEART. Last month, we got its lead single “Time, On Fire,” and today she’s sharing “Final Bow” from it, an evocative character portrait of someone who is “slinging bottles of gin” and “in the alley now smoking cigarettes.” “Mirror […]
Sinead O'Brien – "Strangers In Danger"
A couple months ago, the Limerick singer/poet Sinead O’Brien announced Drowning In Blessings, her debut EP. After a couple of early singles, she teamed up with the English producer Dan Carey for this material — making her the latest exciting artist to come out of the Speedy Wunderground orbit. Along with the announcement, she shared […]
Hannah Georgas – "Just A Phase"
Last month, the Canadian songwriter Hannah Georgas announced her new album All That Emotion. Georgas had been working on the album with Aaron Dessner as her producer, amidst the same period of time in which she joined the National’s touring band for I Am Easy To Find. So far we’ve heard a couple singles, including […]
Metz Share Their Epic New Album Closer "A Boat To Drown In"
Toronto noise-rock heroes Metz have a new album dropping this fall, their first set of new music since 2017’s Strange Peace (though last year they also released their Automat rarities compilation). The new one, Atlas Vending, is out in October on Metz’s longtime label Sub Pop. Its epic lead single and closing track “A Boat […]
Lydia Loveless – "Love Is Not Enough"
The four years since Real have been a time of constant personal change for sharp-tongued country-rocker Lydia Loveless. She got divorced from her husband and longtime bassist. She moved from her home state of Ohio to North Carolina. She parted ways with Bloodshot Records after accusing the label of enabling sexual harassment. All that upheaval […]
Smino, J.I.D, & Kenny Beats – “Baguetti”
A few months ago, Smino, the melodic and quick-tongued Chicago-via-St. Louis rapper, came out with his Already Decided mixtape. Today, he’s followed up that mixtape by packing a whole lot of exciting young starpower onto one single. On the new song “Baguetti,” Smino teams up with his fast-rapping Atlanta peer J.I.D and with the producer […]
Sylvan Esso – "Ferris Wheel"
Sylvan Esso returned last Friday with “What If,” their first new song in two years. It was a short and sweet track that seemed to tease something more, and today the North Carolina synth-folk duo has revealed that’s exactly what’s happening: A third Sylvan Esso album called Free Love is on the way, and they’re […]