“Game Of Pricks” is arguably the best song on arguably the best Guided By Voices album, Alien Lanes. Inarguably, it has become a standard of sorts in recent years, one of the most common GBV songs to cover. (And a scan through our archives will show you indie artists cover GBV a lot.) Touché Amoré […]
Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy Explains His “100% Celebrity Discount” Chipotle Card
It’s been almost a year since Wilco released their double album Cruel Country, and the band aren’t really doing the whole promo-cycle thing anymore. Instead, Wilco are messing around with other things. Jeff Tweedy produced a Rodney Crowell album. The band has another one of their Sky Blue Sky festivals coming up in Mexico. The […]
’90s Shoegaze Greats Catherine Wheel Are Teasing Something
Shoegaze greats Catherine Wheel have been on a hiatus since 2000 (the same year as the release of their fifth album Wishville). Since then, the band rereleased their 1992 debut Ferment in 2010 and the individual members have gone on to work on various projects (bassist Brian Ellis has played in Serafin and with Iggy […]
Succession‘s Brian Cox Reveals He’s A “Closet Spice Girls Fan” In Carpool Karaoke Segment
The HBO drama and dark satire Succession is back for its fourth and final season, as you’re surely aware if you consume any pop culture media whatsoever. One revelation from this promo cycle has been veteran actor Brian Cox’s taste for pop music at its most playful and sparkly. Though Cox plays the gruff asshole […]
King Krule – “it’s all soup now” & “Flimsier”
Archy Marshall is back out there doing King Krule shows this year, and he’s selling new music at the gigs. Tour-only flexi discs featuring new King Krule tracks “it’s all soup now” and “Flimsier” are making their way into the world, which inevitably means they’ve ended up online. The former song could almost pass for […]
Scowl – “Psychic Dance Routine”
Right now, there is a whole lot of excitement around the Santa Cruz hardcore band Scowl, and Scowl fully justify all of them excitement. Scowl are the best. Next month, they’ll follow their tremendous 2021 full-length How Flowers Grow with the new EP Psychic Dance Routine. We’ve already posted the early singles “Opening Night” and […]
NOIA – “reveal yourself”
At the end of the week, Gisela Fulla-Silvestre is releasing her debut full-length as NOIA, gisela. We’ve heard a handful of tracks from it already — “eclipse de amor,” “didn’t know,” and “verano adentro” — and today she’s sharing one more before the album is out in full, the glossy and pulsating “reveal yourself.” “‘reveal […]
Portrayal Of Guilt Announce New Album Devil Music With Short Film
The Texas band Portrayal Of Guilt made one of the best hardcore albums of 2021 with We Are Always Alone, one of the two albums that they released that year. Today, they’re announcing a new album called Devil Music, made up of five new songs on side A and an orchestral reimagining of those same […]
Danny Brown Says He Turned In New Album Quaranta Two Years Ago But Warp Records And Manager Dart Parker Are Holding It Back
Way back in October 2020, Detroit rap’s weirdo hero Danny Brown tweeted “XXXX,” which seemed like a teaser for a new album. Brown broke through in 2011 with XXX, an album whose double-entendre title partially referred to him turning 30 years old. Many of us presumed the “XXXX” teaser suggested a new album commemorating his […]
Eurythmics’ Dave Stewart Joins Daughter Kaya For American Idol Audition
The initial premise of American Idol was that the show could pluck incredible talents from obscurity and make them pop stars. For a while, it lived up to that ideal. But very few Idol contestants go on to anything resembling stardom these days, and the show had fallen out of the zeitgeist long before it […]