What The Hell Happened To Blood, Sweat & Tears? is an upcoming new documentary that aims to answer the question poised in its title: What happened to the rock band that played Woodstock and beat out the Beatles and Johnny Cash to win Album Of The Year at the Grammys in 1970? And more specifically, […]
Stream Destruct’s Fast, Mean, Ugly New Album Cries The Mocking Mother Nature
It seems like most people had rapturous experiences at their first shows back from the pandemic, but nobody had a better first show back than mine — a whole bunch of punk bands playing to hundreds of people at a bucolic outdoor space that I have been told not to describe in any detail. This […]
Liturgy – “Before I Knew The Truth”
Later this month, Liturgy are releasing a new double album, 93696, which they announced back in October with its sprawling title track, while at the same time putting out the As The Blood Of God Bursts The Veins Of Time EP that reimagined and refracted that track. At the top of this year, we got […]
Clark – “Clutch Pearlers”
A few weeks ago, the UK producer Clark announced a new album, Sus Dog, that was executive produced by Thom Yorke. He shared “Town Crank” from it at the time, and today Clark is back with another new single, the springy and textured “Clutch Pearlers,” which comes with a music video directed by Dylan Hayes. […]
sadie – “Tides”
NYC hyperpop singer-songwriter sadie has a new EP called Tides on the way. She shared lead single “All Night” a month ago, and today we hear the title track, a bright yet melancholy slow drift that feels like being enveloped by clouds of digital feeling. “While I was writing Tides I was thinking a lot […]
Sessa – “Vento A Favor”
The Brazilian folk musician Sessa impressed us with last year’s Estrela Acesa, his first album for Mexican Summer. Today he’s back with a new song called “Vento a Favor,” which he co-produced with fellow Brazilian Biel Basile and American Mikey Coltun, who plays bass in Mdou Moctar’s band and helped facilitate Moctar’s breakthrough in North […]
Steve Gunn & David Moore – “Painterly”
Let The Moon Be A Planet, the first volume of RVNG’s new Reflections series, brings together guitarist extraordinaire Steve Gunn and David Moore, the leader of the brilliant ambient ensemble Bing & Ruth. Last month they shared “Over The Dune,” the album’s gorgeously plaintive lead single, and today they’re back with more meditative beauty. New […]
Artist To Watch: Shalom
In Hebrew, “Shalom” has three meanings, one of which is “peace.” Shalom Obisie-Orlu is still looking for hers, but the singer/songwriter is getting closer every day to finding it. It’s been a journey, though, and not one that most Americans can understand. Born in Maryland, raised in South Africa, and currently based in Brooklyn, Shalom […]
Anachronism Focus On What You Feel
In terms of creativity, can death metal still hang with the other metal substyles? Anachronism, the Swiss death metal quartet, have a characteristically well-thought-out answer. “Metal is cursed with gatekeepers and dogmatic douchebags,” the band writes in an email. “Fortunately, not every metalhead is like that, and new mind-blowing stuff keeps coming up, whatever the […]
Lomelda – “Scaredy’s World” (Feat. More Eaze)
Lomelda has launched her own label. The artist born Hannah Read is back today with her first single for her newly founded Double Yolk Record House. “Scaredy’s World” nudges her emotionally charged, guitar-powered indie-pop slightly into the realm of the hyperreal with an assist from fellow Texan More Eaze, aka Mari Maurice. Read has this […]