After releasing his album Western Cum in June, Wand’s Cory Hanson returned early this month with new single “Western Cum.” Today the digital single is officially out, so we get to hear the B-side. “I Can’t Keep My Eyes Open” soars ahead with a real sense of purpose, backing its guitar theatrics with breathlessly bashed-out […]
Room On Fire Turns 20
In the wake of the Strokes’ debut, any band with messy haircuts and “the” in their name could count on the public’s attention for at least 15 minutes. It didn’t matter if you’d been toiling in the trenches for years or if “New York City Cops” had inspired you to form your first band. These […]
Marnie Stern & Fred Armisen – “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper” (Blue Öyster Cult Cover)
Marnie Stern is preparing for her comeback with her aptly titled album The Comeback Kid arriving next month on Joyful Noise. That label is celebrating the spooky holiday season with the Joyful Noise Halloween Party, Vol. 1 compilation album, out now, and it includes a collaboration between Stern and Fred Armisen for a cover of […]
Everything Everything – “Cold Reactor”
Last year, UK band Everything Everything shared their sixth album Raw Data Feel. They reissued their debut album Man Alive in August, giving it the deluxe treatment. And today, they’ve announced a new record titled Mountainhead and shared the single “Cold Reactor” with a video. “’Cold Reactor’ is about striving for an advanced future and […]
San Fermin – “Didn’t Want You To”
Brooklyn eight-piece San Fermin’s last record was 2019’s The Cormorant I & II. Today, they’ve announced their fifth studio album Arms, and released the single “Didn’t Want You To.” They’ve also shared 2024 tour dates. “I had this feeling after going through a breakup, like, ‘well screw you, if you don’t want to be with […]
Watch Doja Cat Cover Hiatus Kaiyote In The BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge
Last month, Doja Cat released a new album, Scarlet. She recently stopped by BBC Radio 1’s Live Lounge, where she played two tracks from it — the chart-topper “Paint The Town Red” and “Agora Hills” — and did a cover, standard for these sorts of performances. Doja opted to do a song by the Australian […]
Aesop Rock – “Infinity Fill Goose Down”
Next month, the great indie rap eccentric Aesop Rock will release his new album Integrated Tech Solutions. The LP is almost entirely self-produced, and its got contributions from folks like billy woods, Hanni El Khatib, Rob Sonic, Nikki Jean, and Lealani Teano, though the advance singles have all been entirely solo. We’ve already posted the […]
DIIV Share New Song “Soul Net” On Mysterious Website
It’s been four years since DIIV’s most recent album Deceiver, and it looks like the band is gearing up for something new. Today, they shared the link to a mysterious website on their social media pages: soul-net.co. Click through and enter and you’ll find a long Geocities-looking page filled with memes and New Age platitudes […]
bar italia – “worlds greatest emoter”
Earlier this year, the idiosyncratic London indie rock trio bar italia made a name for themselves with their debut album Tracey Denim. They haven’t wasted any time in following that LP up. Next week, bar italia will release The Twits, their second full-length of 2023. We’ve already posted the early singles “my little tony” and […]
MF DOOM’s Widow Sues Former Stones Throw Manager For Stealing Rapper’s Notebooks
Three years ago, the great indie-rap enigma MF DOOM died at the age of 49. Earlier this week, DOOM’s widow Jasmine Dumile Thompson filed a lawsuit against Eothen “Egon” Alapatt, the former general manager and A&R rep of the indie label Stones Throw Records, for allegedly stealing 31 of DOOM’s notebooks, which include lyrics that […]