Former Wild Beasts singer Hayden Thorpe has released one solo album, last year’s Diviner, since his band broke up a few years ago. And now, BrooklynVegan reports that he’s teaming up with Hot Chip’s Joe Goddard, his Domino labelmate, for a brand new single called “Unknown Song.” “The lockdown has really made it apparent how […]
The Magnetic Fields – “I’ve Got A Date With Jesus”
Next week, Stephin Merritt’s Magnetic Fields will release the new project Quickies, the latest in a long line of records written around a particular idea. This time, we’re dealing with a five-EP box set — 28 new songs, each under three minutes long, most with pretty funny song titles and concepts. We’ve already posted the […]
Deap Vally – "Space Age Love Song" (A Flock Of Seagulls Cover)
Martha Coolidge’s 1983 movie Valley Girl starred Nicolas Cage and Deborah Foreman as star-crossed SoCal lovers in a storyline inspired by Romeo And Juliet. Just in time for the film’s 35th anniversary in 2018, director Rachel Lee Goldenberg remade Valley Girl as a jukebox musical featuring hits from the ’80s. The film was shelved at […]
Fauness – "Dreamcatcher" & "Violet Flame"
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 […]