Foo Fighters released their latest album But Here We Are a little over a year ago, and tonight they kicked off the UK leg of their Everything Or Nothing At All tour. The band surprised fans in Manchester with a debut of “Unconditional,” a lost song they’d recently rediscovered. A rep for Foo Fighters tells […]
Joan As Police Woman – “Long For Ruin”
American rock veteran Joan As Police Woman has been making music for three decades and has performed with artists like Lou Reed, Rufus Wainwright, Damon Albarn, John Cale, and more. Today, she announced her tenth studio album Lemons, Limes And Orchids. The lead single “Long For Ruin” is out now. “This song refers to the […]
Higher Power – “Stillpoint” (Feat. Never Ending Game)
Higher Power, the great Leeds hardcore band that sometimes sounds like Perry Farrell singing for the Smashing Pumpkins, had the misfortune to release the really good album 27 Miles Underwater just before the pandemic shut everything down in 2020. Earlier this year, they released the single “Absolute Bloom,” their first in a while. Now, they’ve […]
Songwriter Mark James (“Suspicious Minds,” “Hooked On A Feeling”) Dead At 83
Mark James, a songwriter who’s responsible for some truly iconic hits, has died. The Houston Chronicle reports that James passed away at his Nashville home on Saturday. No cause of death has been reported. James was 83. Mark James was born Francis Zambon in Houston, where his father worked as a contractor and his mother […]
Watch Bonny Doon Cover Eddy Current Suppression Ring At Sydney Tour Kickoff
Detroit indie rockers and former Waxahatchee backing band Bonny Doon just kicked off their tour of Australia. With the setting in mind, they chose to cover a song by Melbourne’s beloved Eddy Current Suppression Ring at the first gig, never mind that it was in Sydney. As a fellow American, I say: Close enough! Watch […]
Nap Eyes – “Demons”
Nap Eyes, the ramshackle Canadian folk-rock poets, returned last month after three years away with a pair of new songs. Today they have another new single out. “Demons,” adapted from a phantasmagorical poem by Russian Romantic poet Alexander Pushkin (and not the hall of fame Trouble Will Find Me track), is a remarkable accomplishment. It […]
Chappell Roan Chokes Up At Raleigh Show As Bonnaroo Announces They’re Moving Her To A Bigger Stage: “My Career Is Going Really Fast, And It’s Really Hard To Keep Up”
Music-festival lineups and plans are usually locked into place long before they’re announced, and those festivals can struggle to respond when they’ve booked an artist who’s suddenly surging in popularity. That’s happening right now with Chappell Roan, currently on the kind of meteoric rise that we don’t see too often. Roan’s current tour was meant […]
GUM / Ambrose Kenny-Smith – “Dud”
Last month, Jay Watson of Tame Impala and Pond announced his project GUM was doing a collaborative album with Ambrose Kenny-Smith of King Gizzard & The Lizard titled Ill Times. They shared the title track, and now they’re back with “Dud.” “Dud” was co-written by Kenny-Smith’s late father, Broderick Smith, who was a well-known musician […]
Easy Life Changes Name To Hard Life After Lawsuit, Hard-Fi Responds
Easy Life is the former name of a pop band from Leicester, England. They are not the same thing as EasyJet, which is a British budget airline. They are also not the same thing as Hard-Fi, the recently-reunited rock band also from the UK. But it appears there’s been some confusion lately! Last October, fka […]
Wiki & Tony Seltzer – “No L’s”
The grimy, streetwise NYC rapper Wiki teamed with producer Tony Seltzer on an album called 14k Figaro last fall. They’ve got a new track together out today. “No L’s” is, as you might expect, about how Wiki is not taking any L’s this year. I can’t speak to the whole of his 2024, but this […]