At the beginning of next year, Muncie Girls leader Lande Hekt is releasing her debut solo album, Going To Hell. We’ve heard “Whiskey” from it already and today she’s sharing another track, “80 Days Of Rain,” a chiming track about a constant downpour that keeps you down. Its chorus is especially gripping, Hekt’s muffled voice […]
Napalm Death's Shane Embury Revives Side Project Blood From A Soul With Converge's Jacob Bannon, Announces New Album, Shares New Song "Debris Of Dreams": Listen
27 years ago, Shane Embury started a new band. Embury, the longtime bassist of extreme metal legends Napalm Death, formed Blood From The Soul, a one-off side project with Lou Koller, frontman of New York hardcore legends Sick Of It All. Together, they made To Spite The Gland That Breeds, an album that didn’t really […]
The Body – "A Lament"
The ferociously reliable noise duo the Body put out their last proper album, I Have Fought Against It, But I Can’t Any Longer, in 2018 and since then they’ve been involved in two collaborative albums with Uniform, the Sightless Pit album and, most recently, a dancey team-up with MSC called I Don’t Ever Want To […]
Jay-Z and Smashing Pumpkins Get Mash-Up Treatment
Jay-Z’s The Black Album has not only earned its own accolades, but it helped birth one of Danger Mouse’s lauded mashups — The Grey Album — bringing together Hova’s 2003 LP with the Beatles’ iconic 1968 The White Album. But now there’s another mashup that also brings some punch. On Marcy Projects And The Infinite Sadness, […]
War On Women – “White Lies”
Later this month, ferocious punk avengers War On Women will release their new album Wonderful Hell, the follow-up to 2018’s excellent Capture The Flag. Guitarist Brooks Harlan co-produced the new one with Jawbox leader J. Robbins, and the band has already shared the album’s title track. Today, we get a second song, an anthemic rager […]
'Marcy Projects And The Infinite Sadness' Mashes Up Jay-Z's 'Black Album' With Smashing Pumpkins Tracks
One of the most memorable artifacts of ’00s mashup culture is The Grey Album, on which Danger Mouse — then a largely unknown rap producer with some meager critical buzz — replaced the music on Jay-Z’s freshly released The Black Album with samples from the Beatles’ iconic 1968 self-titled double LP, aka “The White Album.” […]
Megan Thee Stallion Writes New York Times Op-Ed | SPIN
Megan Thee Stallion wrote an op-ed piece for the New York Times today (Oct. 13) about Black women in America. Titled “Why I Speak Up for Black Women,” the piece addresses voting, the alleged shooting by Tory Lanez and the continuing pressure on, and mistreatment of Black women. “Black women are expected once again to deliver victory for […]
The Mountain Goats – "Picture Of My Dress"
The Mountain Goats are releasing a new album, Getting Into Knives, in a couple of weeks. So far, they’ve shared “As Many Candles As Possible” and “Get Famous.” The new album doesn’t, unfortunately, include the 18-second song about a teacup that John Darnielle recently posted to his Twitter account, but it does include a song […]
Sharon Van Etten – "Let Go"
Sharon Van Etten has a new song featured in Feels Good Man, the documentary about the creator of the internet meme Pepe The Frog, which has been hijacked by the alt-right in recent years. The film, which debuted on video-on-demand services a few weeks back, is airing on PBS’ Independent Lens this week. Today, Van […]
Cloud Nothings – "Am I Something"
In the three months since surprise-releasing the quarantine album The Black Hole Understands, Cloud Nothings have been steadily trickling out new music through their Bandcamp subscription series. Turns out Dylan Baldi’s crew are still churning out music for the general public, too. A new Cloud Nothings LP called The Shadow I Remember is coming this […]