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 […]
Jordana – "Forgetter"
Back when Jordana Nye re-released her debut Classical Notions Of Happiness early in the year, it came with a couple extra songs that suggested she was expanding beyond her initial bedroom pop aesthetics. “Crunch” and “Sway” began to establish a whole new fleshed-out, heavier, ’90s-indebted style, and then Jordana announced the Something To Say EP, […]
Alex Kapranos & Clara Luciani – “Summer Wine” (Lee Hazlewood & Nancy Sinatra Cover)
One of the great working partnerships in all of ’60s pop was the one between Lee Hazlewood, the spaced-out cowboy libertine who may have been America’s closest thing to a Serge Gainsbourg figure, and Nancy Sinatra, a rare example of show-business royalty who firmly established herself as something other than a famous last name. Together, […]
Skullcrusher – "Trace"
Recent singles “Places/Plans” and “Day Of Show” have marked out Skullcrusher as a plaintive and slightly celestial folk project. “Trace,” the latest from LA-based Helen Ballentine’s debut EP, does not significantly undermine that perception. It’s just as glimmeringly pretty, with intriguing medieval visuals to match via directors Silken Weinberg and Jeremy Reynoso. “If I stay […]
Half Gringa – "Afraid Of Horses" (Feat. Gia Margaret)
Next month, the Chicago musician Isabel Olive will release a new album as Half Gringa, Force To Reckon, the follow-up to her 2017 debut Gruñona. A couple weeks ago, she shared lead single “1990” from it and today she’s back with “Afraid Of Horses,” a gorgeous and billowing song that features contributions from fellow Chicago […]
Oh Sees Announce New Album 'Protean Threat': Hear "Dreary Nonsense"
If you’re like me, you have trouble keeping track of all the new music garage-rock don John Dwyer is constantly releasing into the world. It’s a good problem to have. Dwyer’s solo project Damaged Bug released an album of Michael Yonkers covers earlier this year, and now he’s ready to roll out a new album […]
Wye Oak – “Spitting Image”
Jenn Wasner and Andy Stack, the two members of the great Baltimore-bred indie duo Wye Oak, have been hellaciously busy lately. Last year, the band released a run of one-off tracks. Last month, Wasner’s solo project Flock Of Dimes released the EP Like So Much Desire. And later this week, Wye Oak will follow up […]
Lana Del Rey Releases Spoken Word Album 'Violet Bent Backwards Over The Grass', Shares Sample Track "LA Who Am I To Love You?": Listen
For more than a year, Lana Del Rey has been talking about publishing books of poetry and releasing spoken-word albums. The first of those efforts is called Violet Bent Backwards Over The Grass, and it’ll eventually be available as both a book and an album. Today, as promised, the album is out. Right now, Violet […]
A.K. Paul – "Be Honest"
Back in May, A.K. Paul released a new song called “Hungry Beat,” a track he’d worked on during quarantine. It was the first time we’d heard from Paul in a bit, with he and his brother Jai maintaining similarly unpredictable release patterns. But it looks like Paul has some big plans for the rest of […]