Sia has released a new single, “Gimme Love.” It’s her first track in two years, and it serves as the first preview of a new album called Reasonable Woman, which will be released next spring. It’s being billed as her first proper pop album in 8 years, since 2016’s This Is Acting. Earlier this year, […]
Belle And Sebastian’s Stuart Murdoch Publishing Debut Novel Next Year
Belle And Sebastian frontman Stuart Murdoch is releasing his debut novel next year. As The Bookseller reports, the Scottish musician’s book Nobody’s Empire will be published in September 2024 — it’s described as “part memoir and part fiction” and follows a character named Stephen who was diagnosed with myalgic encephalomyelitis, or chronic fatigue syndrome, which […]
Yumi Zouma – “KPR”
Yumi Zouma’s 2022 album Present Tense was truly spectacular, and not enough people noticed. Today the transcontinental indie-pop band is back with another effervescent single. “KPR” charges ahead with both force and finesse, matching those achingly dreamy vocals with some truly aggro guitar outbursts, building to one of those gorgeous finales this band does so […]
Eartheater – “Chop Suey!” (System Of A Down Cover)
Somebody’s got Hollywood music directors in their crosshairs! The next single from Eartheater’s suddenly imminent new album Powders is an eerie, minimal cover of System Of A Down’s Toxicity classic “Chop Suey!” Though prior single “Pure Smile Snake Venom” was arty electro-organic pop with a dance beat, Eartheater’s “Chop Suey!” cover turns an unhinged, herky-jerky […]
VMAs: Watch The Hip-Hop 50th Anniversary Tribute Feat. Nicki Minaj, Lil Wayne, LL Cool J, & More
All year long, the music world has been celebrating the 50th anniversary of hip-hop. Surprisingly, the Recording Academy had the most memorable tribute to the genre so far, with Questlove stringing together a generations-spanning medley that went down as one of the great Grammy moments in recent memory. Now the VMAs have staged a star-studded […]
VMAs: Watch Fall Out Boy Cover “We Didn’t Start The Fire” Live For The First Time
Early in the summer Fall Out Boy covered Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start The Fire,” updating the lyrics to reference topics from the past 30+ years, though not in chronological order. “Listen, we did our best,” the band’s Pete Wentz told Zane Lowe at the time. “It’s very, very, very difficult.” Tonight Fall Out Boy […]
Wild Nothing – “Suburban Solutions”
Next month, Jack Tatum’s indie-pop project Wild Nothing will release the new LP Hold. While Tatum has collaborated with other artists recently, this will be his first new Wild Nothing album in five years, and it’ll reflect on the process of becoming a father and leaving Los Angeles to return to the Virginia suburbs where […]
Institute – “City”
The grimy DIY band Institute started a decade ago, when a bunch of members of Austin punk bands got together to make something different. The music that they make in Institute is a version of post-punk that occasionally veers off into psych-rock, but they keep the immediacy of the house-show hardcore that raised them. Institute […]
Adam Scott & Scott Aukerman Launch Latest Music Podcast U Springin’ Springsteen On My Bean?
Adam Scott and Scott Aukerman have been talking music for a long while on their podcast series, which has gone through a few different iterations over the years. After running through all of U2’s discography with U Talkin’ U2 To Me?, they moved on to R.E.M. with R U Talkin’ R.E.M. Re: Me?, took a […]
Citizen – “When I Let You Down”
Next month, the fired-up Midwestern alt-rockers Citizen will follow up their 2021 album Life In Your Glass World with their new LP Calling The Dogs. We’ve already posted the early tracks “If You’re Lonely” and “Hyper Trophy,” and now they’ve also dropped the jittery new song “When I Let You Down.” “When I Let You […]