For the better part of a decade, the Portland punks Long Knife have been making fast, ugly, fantastically nasty hardcore punk songs about being drunk and angry. Today, they’ve come out with a couple of new bangers, their first in a few years. Long Knife have two albums to their name, 2013’s Wilderness and 2015’s […]
Dame Release Intense, Gothy Self-Titled Postpunk EP: Stream
Over the years, a whole lot of bands have played around with the sounds of the post-punk and goth bands that came out of the UK in the late ’70s and early ’80s. And yet people are still finding new ways to mess with those sounds. Consider the Boston band Dame, who play dark, cold […]
Agent blå – "Atopos"
In the three years since we last checked in on the revved-up Gothenburg indie-pop band Agent blå, they’ve kept releasing a steady stream of “death pop,” including a whole album called Morning Thoughts last year. Today their consistent output continues with news of a new EP called Atopos, set for release this fall on Kanine. […]
Korn & Yelawolf Covered The Charlie Daniels Band’s “The Devil Went Down To Georgia,” And It Kind Of Rules
Earlier this month, the longtime country-music fixture Charlie Daniels died of a hemorrhagic stroke at the age of 83. Over his lifetime, Daniels had a hell of a journey. In the ’60s and ’70s, he played with Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen. By the end of his life, he was a virulently right-wing Twitter presence. […]
Stream Dorian’s New Project Songs In The Key Of Love (Part 1 & Part 2)
Dorian dropped a two part project titled Songs In The Key Of Love including 14 songs produced in an R&B and pop spirit. Within only an hour he walks us through his secrets, love stories, intimate events, and deepest dreams. Lyrically, Dorain exposes himself as a great storyteller with a talent to deliver honest narrative […]
Angel Olsen – “Whole New Mess”
When Angel Olsen released her staggering All Mirrors last year, it was billed as a symphonically blown-out version of a stripped-down album she’d recorded in Anacortes, Washington with producer Michael Harris. Now that album — Olsen’s first proper solo release since 2012 debut Half Way Home — is set to see release. It’s called Whole […]
Vein Change Their Name To Vein.FM, Share Remix Album 'Old Data In A New Machine Vol. 1'
A couple of years ago, the Massachusetts band Vein released a truly great debut album called Errorzone — a frantic, precise, splatter, extremely intense hardcore LP that suggested the arrival of a major new force within the genre. But today, we get the slightly baffling news that Vein are no more. According to a press […]
Matmos – “lo! Lavendar River Karez” (Feat. Yo La Tengo)
Next month, the long-running experimental electronic duo Matmos will come out with a new album, and it’s a big one. The Consuming Flame: Open Exercises In Group Form is a three-hour triple album, and like every Matmos album before it, it’s built around a playful concept. This time, Matmos brought in contributions from 99 different […]
Madeline Kenney – "White Window Light"
Back in May, Madeline Kenney announced her third album, Sucker’s Lunch. After previously teaming up with Wye Oak’s Jenn Wasner for 2018’s Perfect Shapes, Kenney once more enlisted Wasner — and, this time, her bandmate Andy Stack — as co-producers and players. This seems like it was a good decision. The interaction between Kenney’s songwriting […]
Lisel – "Night And Day"
Last year, Eliza Bagg — of the Brooklyn indie-poppers Pavo Pavo — released her debut album as Lisel, the impressive Angels On The Slope. Earlier this year, she released a new 7″ that was a team-up with Angel Olsen associate Ben Babbitt, and today she’s announcing another new 7″. For this one, Bagg collaborated with […]