Over the past few years, the relaxation app Calm has commissioned pieces from the likes of Keith Urban, Moses Sumney, Sam Smith, and Toro Y Moi to soundtrack their meditation exercises. Today, Panda Bear (aka Animal Collective’s Noah Lennox) shared a link on his mostly inactive Twitter account that points to a download of a 17-minute ambient track that he describes as being rejected by the Calm app. Check it out below.
Panda Bear’s most recent album was 2019’s Buoys.
Jeremy Earl, leader of the psychedelic indie-folk band Woods, has been running his Woodsist label for a long time. Every year, he brings a bunch of likeminded bands together for the Woodsist Festival, a bucolic affair that always looks extremely pleasant. This year, the Woodsist Fest will return to New York’s Hudson Valley, and the […]
British new wave greats Haircut 100 got together in 1980, cranked out a bunch of classic power pop jams that did well on the UK charts, and then broke up in 1984. Frontman Nick Heyward went solo and made a bunch of records. Haircut 100 have gotten back together a couple of times since their […]
In January, A24 Music announced a Talking Heads tribute album entitled Everyone’s Getting Involved: A Tribute To Talking Heads’ Stop Making Sense. Today, they’re sharing the project’s release date — May 17 — as well as the full tracklist. Plus, Girl In Red’s cover of “Girlfriend Is Better” is out now. “Talking Heads is an […]
