We’ve already weighed in on Slowdive’s magnificent new album everything is alive, which drops this Friday, but they might as well keep that hype train rolling with one more advance single. Today it’s “alife,” a lush and uptempo track that helped the band to really get into album mode. Neil Halstead offers some context: “alife” […]
Beirut – “So Many Plans”
Beirut, aka the worldly indie band started by Zach Condon, has announced his first new album in more than four years. (Not counting 2021’s Artifacts, a double-album collection of unreleased tracks, EPs, and B-sides.) Out November 10 on Condon’s own Pompeii Records, Hadsel is written, recorded, and performed by Condon, and named for the Northern […]
Hovvdy – “To Me It Was” (Samia Cover)
Back in June, Samia announced a single release series Honey Reimagined featuring artists (Maya Hawke, Hovvdy, Ruston Kelly, and Blondshell, to name a few) covering songs from Honey, which originally came out in January of this year. We’ve already heard Hawke’s cover of “Honey” and Blondshell’s take on “Charm You,” and now we get to […]
Amanda Palmer & The Righteous Babes – “The Last Day Of Our Acquaintaince” (Sinéad O’Connor Cover)
Last month, the great Sinéad O’Connor died at the way-too-young age of 56. I’m sure a lot of people have been binging O’Connor’s music hard since her passing, and I am definitely one of those people. Since Sinéad’s loss, the song that’s been hitting me hardest is “The Last Day Of Our Acquaintance,” a gut-twisting […]
Teenage Halloween – “Getting Bitter”
This fall, just 11 days before actual Halloween, the New Jersey pop-punkers Teenage Halloween will release their sophomore album Till You Return. We’ve already posted the early singles “Supertrans” and “Takeaway,” and now Teenage Halloween have shared another track. Teenage Halloween bassist Tricia Marshall wrote the new song “Getting Bitter” about struggles with a family […]
Oneohtrix Point Never – “A Barely Lit Path”
Last week, the extremely busy synth wizard Daniel Lopatin, otherwise known as Oneohtrix Point Never, announced the impending release of his new album Again. It’s his follow-up to 2020’s Magic Oneohtrix Point Never. Lopatin was already a big deal before that album. Since then, he’s produced for the Weeknd and Soccer Mommy, done musical-director duties […]
Taking Meds – “The Other End”
Dial M For Meds, the new album from the New York-via-Rochester punk band Taking Meds, is shaping up to be really good. Dial M For Meds, which the band recorded with Converge’s Kurt Ballou, comes out later this week, and we’ve already posted the early tracks “Memory Lane,” “Outside,” and “Life Support.” All of them […]
Stream Seoul Hardcore Punk Band Slant’s Fast And Furious New Three-Song Demo
Very few bands on the planet make revved-up, anthemic old-school hardcore punk as well as Seoul’s Slant. Slant’s style is fast and frantic, but it’s also catchy. The riffs hit hard, and bandleader Yeji has one of the best rabid-weasel screams out there. In 2021, Slant released their full-length debut 1집, and it was one […]
Miley Cyrus Discusses Sinéad O’Connor Feud On 10th Anniversary Of “Wrecking Ball”
Miley Cyrus, who just released a new song “Used To Be Young,” is reflecting on a tense moment between herself and the late Sinéad O’Connor. On the 10th anniversary of her 2013 song and video “Wrecking Ball,” where a then-20-year-old Cyrus appeared nude, the singer looked back on an open letter O’Connor wrote, which included […]
Tom Morello Plays Opening Of America’s Only Unionized Strip Club
On Thursday, Rage Against The Machine’s Tom Morello performed at the reopening of a newly unionized strip club in North Hollywood. The dancers at Star Garden Topless Dive Bar walked off the job nearly a year and a half ago, citing a workplace “full of belligerently drunk men who push our boundaries and often scare […]