Grizzly Bear might’ve started off as an Ed Droste solo project in its earliest days, but drummer and multi-instrumentalist Christopher Bear joined up shortly thereafter, becoming the first full non-Droste member of the band. Bear has been in Grizzly Bear for about 16 years now, and he’s also done work outside the band, doing the […]
Stream Girls Rituals' New Album 'Crap Shit'
Since Devi McCallion released the last Girls Rituals album, Im Desperate, two years ago, she’s put out three albums with Black Dresses — most recently Peaceful As Hell just last month — and one with Katie Day. Yesterday, on her 29th birthday, she released a new Girls Rituals called Crap Shit, which she says is […]
G-Eazy Is Now Out Here Covering Bob Dylan & The xx
Last month, G-Eazy made the, um, curious choice to cover Radiohead and the Beatles. The Oakland rapper is at it again. He’s just put out two more covers. One is of Bob Dylan’s “Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right,” from 1963’s The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan. The other is of the xx’s “VCR,” from their debut […]
Everything Everything – "Arch Enemy"
UK art-rock band Everything Everything have announced Re-Animator, their first new album since 2017’s A Fever Dream. Recorded over the course of two weeks with producer-to-the-indie-rock-stars John Congleton, Re-Animator was in part inspired by frontman Jonathan Higgs’ fascination with psychologist Julian Jaynes’ theory of the bicameral mind. “This idea of the divided self captivated me,” […]
Brockhampton – “M.O.B.” & “twisted”
Several members of the prolific rap boy band Brockhampton are quarantined together, and they’re hopping on a password-protected Twitch livestream called Technical Difficulties Radio every Friday to talk to fans and debut new music. Last Friday, we got the new songs “Things Can’t Stay The Same” and “N.S.T.” Yesterday, we got two more. The first […]
Regional Justice Center – “Don’t Talk To Me” & “Escape From LA”
Within the fast, brutalist hardcore subgenre known as power violence, the Los Angeles-based collective Regional Justice Center are one of the most interesting things currently going. Self Defense Family member Ian Shelton, the man behind Regional Justice Center, got the project going as a way to rage about his teenage younger brother being sent to […]
Stream Kamasi Washington’s Score To Netflix’s Michelle Obama Doc Becoming
Contemporary jazz great Kamasi Washington wrote and recorded the score for Becoming, Netflix’s new documentary about Michelle Obama based on her bestselling book of the same name. “Working with Kamasi Washington on the musical score for Becoming was a dream come true,” says director Nadia Hallgren. “Not only is Kamasi a masterful musician, he also […]
ZHU & Tinashe – "ONLY"
The electronic producer ZHU stays steadily working, but we haven’t checked in on him since two years ago, when he teamed up with Tame Impala on “My Life,” which later got a video starring Willow Smith. Today he’s got a new collaboration with Tinashe out, so we’ve tuned back in. “ONLY” is a dark electronic […]
Kohti Tuhoa Release New EP 'Ela Totuudesta': Stream
The Finnish band Kohti Tuhoa make frantic, unforgiving punk rock, and their feral political broadsides are consistently rousing even if they’re singing in Finnish. Those of us who don’t speak Finnish still get the speed, the apocalyptic rage, and the general vibe of the thing. Last year, the band released a furious album called Ihmisen […]
Stream Dave Sitek & Daniel Ledinsky's Debut Neverly Boys Album
Dave Sitek will probably always be known as the formidable sonic architect behind TV On The Radio, but he’s had his hand in a whole bunch of other projects over the years. Back in 2017, he formed a new band called the Neverly Boys with fellow producer and songwriter Daniel Ledinsky. And three years later, […]