Toronto quartet Little Kid are led by Kenny Boothby, who was raised Pentecostal and whose music continues to be seasoned with reflections on the Christian faith. The band’s forthcoming album is called Transfiguration Highway, and its opening track is called “I Thought That You’d Been Raptured.” Yet new single “Losing” is probably not most people’s […]
Spielbergs – "Go!"
Norwegian Band To Watch Spielbergs play huge, anthemic, punch-the-sky indie rock. And now they’re back with their first new music since 2019’s Running All The Way Home EP, a new installment in Adult Swim’s 2019-2020 Singles series. “Go!” — pretty much the perfect Spielbergs song title — reunites the band with Tord Øverland Knudsen, the […]
The 1975 – "Guys"
Can you believe it? We are this close to the arrival of the 1975’s new album Notes On A Conditional Form. The much-anticipated followup to 2018’s A Brief Inquiry Into Online Relationships finally comes out next week and, as you are likely aware, there have been a whole bunch of songs shared in advance. Starting […]
Inter Arma Announce Covers Album 'Garbers Days Revisited', Share Version Of Neil Young's "Southern Man": Listen
Hey, some good news! Inter Arma, the great Richmond metal destroyers, released Sulphur English, an absolute rib-crusher of an album, just over a year ago. Today, they’ve announced plans to follow it up with an all-covers album called Garbers Days Revisited, which they recorded in between Sulphur English tours. Garbers Days Revisited — clearly a […]
Bing & Ruth – "Live Forever"
Last month, Bing & Ruth — the compositional project led by David Mooe — announced a new album, Species, with the lead single “I Had No Dream.” Today, they’re sharing the album’s centerpiece, a 13-minute slow burn called “Live Forever,” which glides through its long runtime with a preternatural calm. “Depending on how you’re registering […]
Luke Jenner – “If There Is A God”
Just before the pandemic hit, Luke Jenner, frontman of reunited New York dance-punk greats the Rapture, announced his intentions to drop a solo album. He also released the spare and vulnerable “You’re Not Alone,” that album’s first single. 1, Jenner’s first record without the Rapture, was supposed to come out this month. Like so many […]
CHAI – "Ready Cheeky Pretty"
Last year, CHAI released a really great album, PUNK — it was our Album Of The Week when it came out — and they re-emerged a couple months ago with a new single, “No More Cake.” Today, they’re back with another one, “Ready Cheeky Pretty,” a densely-layered track built around the Japanese band’s endlessly positive […]
Omni – "The Stranger" (Billy Joel Cover) & "Art For Art's Sake" (10cc Cover)
Atlanta post-punk trio Omni have made their second contribution to Lagniappe Sessions, the covers series maintained by OG music blog Aquarium Drunkard. Back in 2016, they tackled Alice Cooper’s “Identity Crisis” and the Boys Next Door’s “Somebody’s Watching Me.” Since then they’ve released a pair of great albums for a pair of venerable indie labels […]
Amnesia Scanner – “AS Tearless” (Feat. Lalita)
These are bad times for many, many things, but they’re good times for pieces of art related to the apocalypse. Case in point: Amnesia Scanner, a Finnish experimental electronic duo based in Berlin, are getting ready to release their sophomore album Tearless, and it’s a sort of concept album about living in a dying world. […]
JME & Skepta's "Nang" Video Is The Coolest Thing On The Internet Today: Watch
The London rapper JME has been making records for more than a decade. He’s a fixture in the grime world. With his brother Skepta, JME co-founded the Boy Better Know collective. He’s made a whole lot of bangers, both alone and with Skepta. And yet it’s possible that JME has never done anything cooler than […]