Washed Out, the chillwave-pioneering synthpop project of Georgia native Ernest Greene, has just shared a new song called “Too Late.” And although the planned music video shoot for the track had to be cancelled in the wake of the pandemic, Greene ended up with a surplus of crowd-sourced footage after putting a call out to […]
Gorillaz – "Aries" (Feat. Peter Hook & Georgia)
After Damon Albarn revived Gorillaz with 2017’s Humanz, the project has been pretty consistently active. The Now Now quickly followed in 2018, and then in the beginning of this year Gorillaz began teasing something called Song Machine. The premise: a direct feed of new “episodes,” or singles, featuring a characteristically broad array of collaborators and […]
Phoebe Bridgers – "Kyoto"
It’s been a little over a month since Phoebe Bridgers released “Garden Song,” the first single from her upcoming sophomore album, and a lot has happened in Phoebeland (and the real world) since then. For Bridgers in particular, she’s guested on a Hayley Williams song alongside her Boygenius comrades (Williams covered a song of hers […]
Angel Olsen – "All Mirrors (Johnny Jewel Remix)"
Angel Olsen is keeping up a busy schedule during quarantine. The Asheville-based indie star has been regularly posting live covers to her Instagram, including songs by Roxy Music and Tori Amos, and this Saturday at 6PM ET she’ll present a ticketed online performance called Still At Home: An Evening Of Songs On Piano And Guitar. […]
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith – "The Steady Heart"
Experimental composer Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith announced her new album The Mosaic Of Transformation last month with a hell of a lead single, the 10-minute album-closing suite “Expanding Electricity.” She followed that up with a song that’s not on the album, an Adult Swim single called “Becoming Ferromagnetic.” And now she’s back to rolling out the […]
EOB – “Cloak Of The Night” (Feat. Laura Marling)
Way back in December, Radiohead guitarist Ed O’Brien announced his first-ever solo album. O’Brien’s new LP Earth, recorded under the name EOB, is coming out next week. Thus far, O’Brien has shared a number of solo songs: “Santa Teresa,” “Brasil,” “Shangri-La,” “Olympik.” Today, O’Brien has dropped a new one called “Cloak Of The Night,” and […]
Gotti Banxx Finally Shares New Album Titled Very Special
Montrealese Hip-Hop artist Gotti Banxx just dropped his debut album, Very Special, a carefully chosen catalogue of songs that include the previously released singles “See U Later” and “Sometimes”. The album is a coherent collection of tracks that ideally reflect the place Banxx finds himself in life, having found his signature sound, a blend of […]
PUP’s Stefan Babcock Shares New Song Written In Quarantine, “Waiting For Something To Happen”
PUP leader Stefan Babcock has shared a new song that he wrote while in quarantine. It’s called “Waiting For Something To Happen.” He posted it earlier today alongside a video that shows him playing it on acoustic guitar and accompanied by PUP drummer Zack Mykula on a sampler pad and French horn player Rachel O’Connor. […]
Coronavirus Music: Randy Newman Wrote A Song About Social Distancing
Recently, KPCC, a public radio station in Southern California, asked the songwriting legend Randy Newman to say a few words about social distancing — “because of my scientific background,” says Newman. So Randy Newman just went ahead and wrote a whole song on the subject. Newman sent in a video of himself sitting at his […]
Gotti Banxx Finally Shares New Album Titled Very Special
Montrealese Hip-Hop artist Gotti Banxx just dropped his debut album, Very Special, a carefully chosen catalogue of songs that include the previously released singles “See U Later” and “Sometimes”. The album is a coherent collection of tracks that ideally reflect the place Banxx finds himself in life, having found his signature sound, a blend of […]