Last year, the Richmond band Ghouli came out with Nothing, a great EP of raw, spooky hardcore punk. Ghouli guitarist Mikey Kent is the host of Toxic Schlock, a great horror-movie podcast that’s on a bit of a hiatus now; I was on there earlier this year, talking about Scream. And now Kent also has […]
Stream Supine’s Feverish, Intense Debut Album No Altar For The Company Man
The city of Philadelphia has a long, proud history of dark, tangled, atmospheric hardcore. It’s the hometown of Ink & Dagger and Blacklisted and Soul Glo. Philly also has Drowse, who came out with the hard-as-fuck Dance In The Decay last year. I don’t know whether Philly’s Supine see themselves as being part of that […]
Open Mike Eagle – “Burner Account” (Feat. Armand Hammer)
Last year, the great underground rap veteran Open Mike Eagle released his album Anime, Trauma And Divorce, which was a whole lot more entertaining than anyone could ever expect from a record about the end of a marriage. Since then, Eagle has remained busy. He eulogized MF DOOM through rap, he teamed up with the […]
Stream LURK’s Hard-Rockin’ Debut Album Around The Sun
The members of the Chicago band LURK come from their city’s hardcore scene, but they aren’t really a hardcore band. Frontman Kevin Kiley said that the band was shooting for a particular sound when they formed — “Ramones meets Devo meets B-52’s meets the Cramps” — but they don’t really sound like that, either. Instead, […]
Hear “God Only Knows” From Brian Wilson’s New Album Of Solo Piano Beach Boys Hits
We generally don’t think of Brian Wilson as the kind of artist who would record a stripped-down solo-piano album. At his peak, the former Beach Boys sonic mastermind was famous for complex orchestrations and layered vocal harmonies so ambitious that the rest of Wilson’s band rebelled against him. But later this fall, Wilson will release […]
Bartees Strange – “Lady Luck” (Richard Swift Cover)
To celebrate Secretly Canadian’s 25th anniversary this year, the label is reissuing 12 old albums in a series called SC25 Editions and releasing 25 new covers in a series called SC25 Singles; the net proceeds from the whole campaign will go towards raising $250,000 for the Bloomington, Indiana charity New Hope For Families. Up next […]
Lady Gaga & Tony Bennett – “Love For Sale”
Next month, 95-year-old crooner Tony Bennett and 35-year-old crooner Lady Gaga will release their new album Love For Sale, a salute to the Cole Porter songbook. This is Gaga and Bennett’s second collaborative LP, and given that Bennett is suffering from Alzheimer’s and retired from performing live, you have to imagine that it’ll be the […]
Hear Taylor Swift’s Re-Recorded Version Of “Wildest Dreams”
Right now, Taylor Swift is undertaking the vast project of re-recording all of her old albums — partly as a way to re-examine those old songs but mostly as a grand fuck-you to Scooter Braun, the man who bought her master recordings. Swift released her new version of 2008’s Fearless back in April, and she’s […]
Jeff Tweedy Covered The Ted Lasso Theme
The immensely popular and divisive Apple TV+ series Ted Lasso — a warm-hearted sitcom that runs on good vibes rather than good jokes, in which Jason Sudeikis plays a relentlessly positive American football coach hired to coach a British football (soccer) team — is close to wrapping up its second season. Today Apple Music has […]
Video: Lil Nas X “That’s What I Want”
Fresh off the release of his Montero album, Lil Nas X shares his journey before marriage in his latest feature presentation. Directed by Stillz, Lil Nas X portrays a football player who is injured on the field and makes out with his fellow teammate from the locker room to the bedroom. Elsewhere, he learns his […]