Forty years ago today, on February 22, 1983, the Flaming Lips performed their very first show at Oklahoma City’s Blue Note Lounge. But if you could take a time machine back to that moment, chances are, you wouldn’t recognize the band onstage. None of the qualities we now associate with this band — the kaleidoscopic […]
Stream Screamo Greats Crowning & Eyelet’s Feverish New Split
The raw, expressionist DIY screamo scene continues to thrive, and two of its most promising bands have just come together for a new split 7″. Chicago trio Crowning, whose membership includes Frail Body frontman Lowell Shaffer, released their debut album Survival/Sickness in 2020. Last year, they dropped a split with Singapore’s NAEDR. Baltimore’s Eyelet released […]
Jessie Ware Covers Cher’s “Believe”
This spring, the great British singer Jessie Ware will follow her sick-as-hell 2020 dance-pop opus What’s Your Pleasure? with another new album called That! Feels Good! Thus far, it sure seems like Jessie Ware is still making joyous, disco-informed pop music. You can hear that in the early singles “Free Yourself” and “Pearls,” and you […]
Ric Wilson, Chromeo, & A-Trak – “Pay It No Mind”
Chicago rapper Ric Wilson has teamed up with Chromeo and A-Trak for a new collab called “Pay It No Mind.” It’s Wilson’s first proper release since last year’s “COCO BADASS” and was written and recorded in California mid-pandemic. Featuring a colorful video, “Pay It No Mind” is a party-ready, electro-funk bop confidently led by Wilson. […]
Shame – “Adderall”
At the end of this week, Shame are releasing a new album, Food For Worms. The UK band has shared “Fingers Of Steel” and “Six-Pack” from it already, and today they’re back with one more single, “Adderall.” This is the track that (sort of) features Phoebe Bridgers. In an interview with NME last month, drummer […]
U.S. Girls – “Tux (Your Body Fills Me, Boo)”
At the end of the week, U.S. Girls are releasing a new album, Bless This Mess. Meg Remy has shared three songs from it already — “So Typically Now,” “Bless This Mess,” and “Futures Bet” — and today she’s sharing one more, the sparkling and sensual “Tux (Your Body Fills Me, Boo),” which Remy wrote […]
Bernice – “Underneath My Toe”
We haven’t heard from the Toronto pop experimentalists Bernice since they released 2021’s Album Of The Week-worthy Eau de Bonjourno. It wouldn’t have been out of character for them to fade away from the spotlight for a few years, but they’re already back with a new album, Cruisin’, which will be released in April. Today, […]
Rosie Thomas – “Eternal Flame” (The Bangles Cover)
A few months ago, Rosie Thomas released her Sufjan Stevens duet “We Should Be Together.” Next month, she’ll drop her second EP in her Lullabies For Parents series. “Eternal Flame” was already a soothing song, but it wasn’t necessarily a chill one. For her cover, Thomas has enlisted fellow singer-songwriters William Fitzsimmons and Denison Whitmer […]
Luigui Bleand Announces New Album & Drops A Mesmerizing Genre-Stretching Banger “Mueve Eso”
Highly acclaimed Dominican-Haitian artist and producer Luigui Bleand returns in full force with a mesmerizing genre-stretching banger; the stunning track and music video “Mueve Eso.” Playful, sensual and smooth as butter, this latest hit track is set to propel the established artist to even greater heights than anything he’s seen so far in his career. […]
Vintage Photos You’ve Never Seen Of Woodstock
When the organizers of Woodstock envisioned an outdoor concert, they wanted to go big and break a record set in Miami, Florida, that drew 40,000 concertgoers. They pre-sold 186,000 tickets, but more than double that amount showed up. Little did they know that their event in a tiny N.Y. town would become the most iconic […]