The UK pop and R&B singer Jorja Smith released her debut album Lost & Found way back in 2018, and in 2021 she released an excellent EP called Be Right Back. Today she’s launching a new era with the DAMEDAME*-produced “Try Me,” an impressive mixture of smooth presence and jagged rhythm that ends by disappearing […]
Rose City Band – “Mariposa”
Next week, Rose City Band — the Portland project led by Ripley Johnson, also in Wooden Shjips and Moon Duo — are releasing a new album, Garden Party, the follow-up to 2021’s Earth Trip. We’ve heard two tracks from it already, “Chasing Rainbows” and “Slow Burn,” and today he’s back with one more, the jammy […]
Jessie Ware – “Begin Again”
At the end of the month, Jessie Ware is releasing a new album with the emphatic title That! Feels Good!, her follow-up to 2020’s What’s Your Pleasure? We’ve heard two singles from it so far, “Free Yourself” and “Pearls,” and today the British singer has returned with a third, “Begin Again.” “On a miserable afternoon […]
Pissed Jeans – “No Convenient Apocalypse”
It’s been over six years since we’ve heard from the Philadelphia band Pissed Jeans, when they released their full-length Why Love Now in 2017. Members of the band have popped up in various places over the years, in music videos by Kurt Vile and as part of a side project called Fine Jewelers and, most […]
Stream Magdalena Bay’s New Seven-Song EP Mini Mix Vol. 3
Magdalena Bay, the giddy experimental pop duo from Los Angeles, blew up on the strength of their 2021 album Mercurial World. On the strength of that LP, Magdalena Bay toured with acts like Charli XCX and Flume, and they play Coachella for the first time tomorrow. Last year, Mercurial World got a deluxe edition. Before […]
King Krule – “Seaforth”
A few weeks ago, King Krule played some live shows where he was selling some flexi-discs featuring new songs. Today, Archy Marshall has announced a new King Krule album called Space Heavy, his follow-up to 2020’s Man Alive! He wrote it over the past few years while commuting between London and Liverpool, the two cities […]
The Tallest Man On Earth – “Looking For Love”
This week, Swedish singer-songwriter Kristian Matsson aka The Tallest Man On Earth, will release his new album Henry St. We’ve already written about lead single “Every Little Heart” and the project’s title track. Today, Matsson is sharing one more album preview, “Looking For Love,” which comes with a video directed by Jeroen Dankers (who also […]
Bob Dylan Debuts Cover Of Grateful Dead’s “Truckin’” In Tokyo
Bob Dylan has a long history with the Grateful Dead. The two acts toured together in 1987, a putting on collaborative performances that led to the live album Dylan & The Dead. In his recent book The Philosophy Of Modern Song, Dylan wrote about the Dead’s American Beauty highlight “Truckin’,” noting, “It’s got a fantastic […]
Spy – “Big Man”
The Bay Area band Spy makes a raw, fast, frantic form of hardcore punk, and they do it with so much style and charisma that they’ve become one of the biggest bands on the underground in the past few years. Spy formed during the pandemic, and they’ve only been playing shows for a couple of […]
Crumb – “Crushxd”
Before today, the New York indie band Crumb hadn’t released a song in two years. That changes with “Crushxd,” a hallucinatory new track that reminds me a bit of Broadcast and Men I Trust. Produced by Jonathan Rado and Johnscott, the song is inspired by an incident that haunted Crumb’s first big US tour in […]