We named idiosyncratic London pop musician Fauness one of the best new artists of 2019 after she caught our attention with her promising EPs Toxic Femininity and Lashes In A Landfill. Today, she’s returning with the new digital single “Dreamcatcher” and its B-side, “Violet Flame,” and it’s just as good. “Dreamcatcher,” unsurprisingly, is the standout, […]
Rhye – "Beautiful"
Rhye, the soft, sensuous indie-R&B project of Toronto-born, Los Angeles-based musician Mike Milosh, is back. The slinky, understated “Beautiful” is Rhye’s first proper single since the release of last year’s piano-focused Spirit. “As we all share in this collective crazy moment that is quarantine, there are many ways to deal with the isolation, many ways […]
Puscifer – “Apocalyptical”
Last year, after making everyone wait for about six eternities, Tool finally came back with the triumphant album Fear Inoculum. This year, they were touring behind it. That’s obviously stopped. (Fans at a tool show in New Zealand in early March may have been exposed to coronavirus.) So now frontman Maynard James Keenan has turned […]
No Joy – "Birthmark"
It’s one of music’s great paradoxes: No Joy inevitably leads to joy. The Montréal shoegazers had a sneaky-great run early last decade, but they haven’t released a proper album in five years, though they did kick out a series of EPs including collaborations with Sonic Boom and Jorge Elbrecht, who is now a member of […]
Cut Copy – "Love Is All We Share"
Cut Copy’s most recent album, Haiku From Zero, came out back in 2017. Today, the Australian electronic band is back with their first new song since then, the hypnotic six-minute track “Love Is All We Share.” “‘Love Is All We Share’ is a song we made using only a handful of sounds, hoping to create […]
Gillian Welch – ''Happy Mother's Day"
Mother’s Day is this weekend, and the Gillian Welch is here to remind you of that by releasing a song called “Happy Mother’s Day.” The song was written back in the early 2000s, but Welch rediscovered it recently while going through some old demos and home recordings. “We can’t always be with the ones we […]
James Blake & Kehlani Team Up On "Grieving": Listen
Kehlani’s new album It Was Good Until It Wasn’t is out now. Advance singles “Toxic,” “Everybody Business,” and “F&MU” have been uniformly great, and the album contains lots of noteworthy guest stars including Megan Thee Stallion, Jhené Aiko, Tory Lanez, Masego, and Lucky Daye. But perhaps most intriguing of all is “Grieving,” a collaboration with […]
St. Vincent – "The Eddy"
The Eddy, Damien Chazelle’s new series about a jazz club in Paris, hits Netflix today. The show’s official soundtrack is also out today, as well. It features original compositions written by Grammy winner Glen Ballard and recorded by the “Eddy house band,” which is made up of real-life musicians Randy Kerber, Ludovic Louis, Lada Obradovic, […]
Justin Bieber & Ariana Grande – "stuck with u"
Justin Bieber and Ariana Grande have collaborated on their first-ever song together, and it only took a pandemic to get them to do it. “Stuck With U” is out now. The two teen-pop titans have adjusted to adulthood pop stardom in different ways. Bieber’s last album, Changes, was something of a flop for him, and […]
Bob Dylan – "False Prophet"
Bob Dylan has announced a new album called Rough And Rowdy Ways. It’ll be out on 6/19. It’s his first album of original songs since 2012’s Tempest. There’s no official tracklist yet, but the two songs that he released over the last couple months are on it, “Murder Most Foul” and “I Contain Multitudes,” as […]