Liturgy have announced a new album, Origin Of The Alimonies, their follow-up to last year’s H.A.Q.Q.. It’s the Brooklyn avant-garde metal band’s first album since bandleader Hunter Hunt-Hendrix came out as transgender and in a video announcing its release she describes it as “an opera [that] addresses the topic of the origin of all things […]
Premiere: Alex Porat’s “Forgot To Forgive”
Toronto singer/songwriter Alex Porat completes her 4-track bad at breakups EP with the introspective and infinitely relatable “forgot to forgive.” Which is essentially about holding on to resentment. “I took all of our pictures down, there’s tan lines on the wall,” the breakout star begins. “Deleted all our messages, tried to break the fall.” However, […]
Ty Dolla $ign – “Spicy” (Feat. Post Malone)
Back in 2018, the extremely busy Ty Dolla $ign sang on “Psycho,” a catchy Post Malone song that made it to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. Two and a half years later, Post Malone has repaid the favor. Post appears on “Spicy,” a catchy new Ty Dolla $ign song from the forthcoming LP Featuring […]
Paul McCartney to Release New Album 'McCartney III'
Nearly 40 years after the release of McCartney II (and five decades after his solo debut), Paul McCartney announced his latest album, McCartney III. The record is out Dec. 11 on Capitol Records. McCartney hadn’t planned to release new music in 2020, but the quarantine/lockdown (or in his words, “rockdown”) changed his perspective. Here’s what he had to say […]
Belgian Hardcore Band Chain Reaction Release Excellently Nasty New EP 'Figurehead': Stream
Chain Reaction are a Belgian band with a crushingly simplistic and brutal take on hardcore. Members of the band are also in groups like Rise And Fall and Congress. Like Pittsburgh’s Unreal City, who released a great album a few months ago, Chain Reaction take clear inspiration from Integrity, the Cleveland pioneers of metallic hardcore. […]
Neil Young Shares Previously Unreleased 1974 Tune 'Homefires'
Neil Young has performed “Homefires” live since it was recorded in 1974, but the tune has never been officially released. Until now. The song features Young on vocals and guitar and Tim Drummond on bass. The duo produced the track as well. Subscribers to the Neil Young Archives can hear the entire track here or on […]
Respire – “Cicatrice”
The Toronto screamo sextet Respire make grand, crashing, gut-churning music that combines majestic post-rock grace with searing black metal intensity. Later this year, they’ll follow up their 2018 album Dénouement with a new one called Black Line. Respire have already shared first single “Tempest,” and it rules. Today, they’ve shared another song, and it rules, […]
Bill Callahan & Bonnie “Prince” Billy – “Red Tailed Hawk” (Feat. Matt Kinsey) (The Other Years Cover)
Bill Callahan and Bonnie “Prince” Billy, two kindred spirits and Drag City icons, have been reconvening every week to share a new cover with a little help from their friends. They covered Cat Stevens’ “Blackness Of The Night” with AZITA, they covered Hank Williams Jr.’s “OD’d In Denver” with Chavez guitarist Matt Sweeney, and they […]
Neil Young Shares Previously Unreleased 1974 Song "Homefires": Listen
Next month, Neil Young will release the massive new box set Archives Volume 2: 1972-1976. Young has had a career that’s been both long and great, but if you had to nail down a career peak, that five-year stretch would probably be it. The box set will include a whole lot of unreleased versions of […]
Chet 'JR' White, Girls Member/Producer, Dies at 40
Chet “JR” White, formerly the bassist and producer of San Francisco indie-rock band Girls, has died at age 40. White died at his family home on Sunday night after his heart stopped, a Facebook post from Girls’ label, True Panther, confirms. Our good friend Chet “JR” White passed away on Sunday in his family’s home […]