Nap Eyes, the ramshackle Canadian folk-rock poets, returned last month after three years away with a pair of new songs. Today they have another new single out. “Demons,” adapted from a phantasmagorical poem by Russian Romantic poet Alexander Pushkin (and not the hall of fame Trouble Will Find Me track), is a remarkable accomplishment. It spends more than six minutes steadily drifting forward, giving Nigel Chapman’s wobbly tenor a brilliant canvas. I love this one; listen below.
The Olympia, Washington musician Ben Funkhouser, better known as fish narc, is a key member of GothBoiClique, the storied emo-rap crew. He was one of the late GBC leader Lil Peep’s go-to producers, and he’s done a lot of work across genres, including collaborations with late post-punker the Soft Moon. Over the years, fish narc […]
At 83, Paul Simon is a living legend of American popular music. Simon has remained artistically active later in life, but he’s been suffering from catastrophic hearing loss in the past few years. Simon has been open about his problems with hearing, which helped inspire his most recent record, last year’s Seven Psalms. This morning, […]
Richard Russell came aboard at the London label XL Recordings in the early ’90s, when it released “The Bouncer,” the rave anthem from his duo Kicks Like A Mule. Since then, Russell ascended to label-boss status and oversaw XL as it became a fixture in many different forms of left-of-center music. Since 2017, Russell has […]
