Are you ready. Swae Lee dances with pure joy on his uplifting single featuring Lil Mosey and Tyga. Taken from the soundtrack off The Sponge Bob Movie, Swae’s running up the check with his whimsical rhymes. Tyga gets the feet moving with a fun-filled verse with the kids, while Lil Mosey brings his animated lyrics. […]
Lou Barlow Covers 'PAW Patrol' Theme Song
Lou Barlow gets it. As any parent of a toddler knows, the one show that your kids will always tune in for is PAW Patrol. The Dinosaur Jr. guitarist clearly understands, or else why would he cover the theme song of the Nickelodeon TV show? Barlow shared an acoustic take on the show’s theme song, which […]
Nation Of Language's Aidan Noell Releases Solo Song: Listen
Along with her husband Ian Devaney and Michael Sui-Poi, Aidan Noell is one third of the Brooklyn synth-pop Band To Watch Nation Of Language. They released their great debut album Introduction, Presence earlier this year. And today, for Bandcamp Friday, Noell has shared her first-ever solo songwriting effort, “Prepositional Phrase.” Noell is NOL’s resident keyboard […]
Civic – “Radiant Eye” & “Making Time” (The Creation Cover)
These days, there’s a whole lot of great guitar-rock coming out of Australia — be it hardcore or psych or post-punk or, um, AC/DC. The Melbourne band Civic don’t really fit into any of those designations. Instead, Civic make a raw, snorting, immediate form of rock ‘n’ roll. It’s fast and sloppy and reckless, so […]
Björk Teams With Iceland's Hamrahhlíð Choir on 'Cosmogony'
Björk and frequent collaborator Sjón wrote “Cosmogony,” the first single from the Icelandic Hamrahlíð Choir’s upcoming album Come and be Joyful, which is out on Dec. 6. “Cosmogony” is an entirely a capella work first performed by the Hamrahlíð Choir at the premiere performance of Björk’s Cornucopia shows at the Shed in New York in May […]
King Von, Rising Chicago Rapper, Dies at 26
King Von, the rising Chicago rapper born Dayvon Bennett, has died at the age of 26, a person familiar with the situation told SPIN. The Atlanta Police Department released a statement on the incident, which you can read below. It is our understanding Dayvon Bennett, aka King Von was shot and killed during this morning’s […]
The Choir Björk Sang In As A Teen Covered "Cosmogony" With Her Help
When Björk was a teenager, she sang in the Hamrahlíð Choir, an ensemble made up of graduates of the Hamrahlíð College in Reykjavík, whose programs have exposed more than 2,500 Icelandic teenagers to classical music. The current iteration of the choir and its founder Þorgerður Ingólfsdóttir worked with Björk on Utopia, and she made them […]
Watch Rosie Carney's Cover of Radiohead's 'Black Star'
Rosie Carney has shared “Black Star,” the latest track from her upcoming Radiohead cover album project, appropriately titled The Bends, which is the title and title track of Radiohead’s sophomore outing. While “Black Star” follows a similar somber feel to the original, Carney’s version of the 1995 track shows the fragile and really sad side […]
Chai – “Plastic Love” (Mariya Takeuchi Cover)
CHAI still haven’t confirmed a full-length follow-up to last year’s PUNK LP, but we’ve been hearing a lot from the sweetly eccentric Japanese pop-rock band. Last month, they capped off a steady stream of one-off tracks with the news that they were signing to Sub Pop. The announcement was accompanied by another single, the supremely […]
27 Different Indie Artists Cover Blink-182's "Dammit" On New Compilation
2020 has been a big year for Blink-182 fandom, especially among indie-rock types. There was the moment in March that a bunch of indie stars parodied the Gal Gadot “Imagine” video by singing Blink’s “I Miss You.” There was Christian Lee Hutson covering “Going Away To College.” There was August’s Dude Ranch tribute compilation — […]