Three big dogs in the realm of improvisational experimental music recently got together to make an album. Guitar virtuoso Steve Gunn has already made a few records with drummer and keyboardist John Truscinski as the Gunn-Truscinski Duo. For the new LP Glass Band, the two of them worked with Bill Nace, Kim Gordon’s partner in […]
UNKLE Announce First US Shows In 13 Years
UNKLE, the long-running and collaboration-heavy project from Mo’Wax label founder James Lavelle, will probably always be best-known for Psyence Fiction, the classic 1998 album that Lavelle and DJ Shadow recorded with guests like Thom Yorke, Mike D, and Richard Ashcroft. But Lavelle has kept UNKLE going without Shadow since then, and the project has just […]
Bad History Month – “Breakdown Lane”
Next week, Bad History Month are releasing the True Delusion EP, which the Philadelphia-based project introduced with “Over The Hills” a couple weeks back. Today, we’re getting another single, the fuzzy and squalling “Breakdown Lane.” “It’s about being really bummed out,” Sean Sprecher offers up. “Life has passed you by and day by day continues […]
Stream Massachusetts Hardcore Band Adrienne’s Heavy-As-Hell New EP Summer’s Beginning
In 2021, the Massachusetts heavy hardcore band Adrienne crushed a whole lot of skulls with their self-titled debut EP. Adrienne’s sound has the intensity and dynamic range that bands like Integrity introduced in the ’90s. They’re ominous and brutal at the same time, and they radiate total sincerity in their riff-crunch freakouts. I haven’t seen […]
Ghost Train Orchestra & Kronos Quartet Announce New Moondog Tribute Album Feat. Jarvis Cocker, Rufus Wainwright, Marissa Nadler, & More
Ghost Train Orchestra and Kronos Quartet have arranged a Moondog tribute album, Songs And Symphoniques: The Music Of Moondog, which will be released on September 29. “The first Moondog record I heard was the 1969 orchestra record simply titled Moondog,” Ghost Train Orchestra’s Brian Carpenter said in a statement. “Its cover featured a very striking […]
Mac Krol (Mike Krol & Mac McCaughan) – “For Some Other Reason”
Mike Krol and Mac McCaughan have teamed up for a new project called Mac Krol, and they’re releasing a 7-inch featuring three songs that they worked on together next month via Merge. The songs have a long history: Krol started them back in 2015 when he was recording Turkey with his band but soon discarded […]
Kelsea Ballerini Hit In The Eye With Friendship Bracelet Onstage In Boise
The plague of throwing weird shit onstage at concerts continues. A few months ago, country superstar Kane Brown got nailed in the nuts with a thrown cowboy boot while performing in Wichita. Then there was Bebe Rexha taking a phone to the eye in New York, and people tossing their dead mother’s ashes and a […]
Anjimile – “Father”
In September, Anjimile will release his first full-length since 2020’s Giver Taker. The indie-folk performer has already shared the lead single and title track from The King, and today he’s following that up with “Father” featuring guitar by Brad Allen William. “I wrote this song with my parents in mind as a sort of gesture […]
Michigan Turns 20
The Sufjan Stevens catalog has no shortage of mind-bendingly proggy moments, many of them on the 2010 album The Age Of Adz, one of the most formidable works of auteurist excess of the 21st century. Yet my favorite of all of them comes during “Oh Detroit, Lift Up Your Weary Head! (Rebuild! Restore! Reconsider!),” one […]
Grian Chatten – “All Of The People”
Grian Chatten, the lead singer for Fontaines D.C., is releasing his solo debut album Chaos For The Fly on the last day of June. We’ve already covered singles “The Score,” “Fairlies” (which he played for his solo TV debut on Later… With Jools Holland), and “Last Time Every Time Forever.” Today, we’re getting one more […]