In a few weeks, Osees — the bugged-out psychedelic garage-punk band variously known as Thee Oh Sees and Oh Sees — will release a new album called Protean Threat. Frontman John Dwyer remains relentlessly prolific, even during a pandemic, and we posted video of the band ripping through songs from the new album in an […]
R.E.M., Hayley Williams, Phoebe Bridgers and More Share Covers for Charity
R.E.M., Hayley Williams, Jamila Woods, Phoebe Bridgers, Angel Olsen and more contributed previously unreleased covers of artists including the Cure and Joni Mitchell to the Good Music To Avert The Collapse Of American Democracy compilation, out this Friday (Sept. 4) and only on Friday. All net proceeds from the set of unheard songs will benefit Fair […]
Shygirl – "FREAK"
So far this year, the London artist Shygirl has popped up in relation to some other notable people. She’s on the Arca album, the Georgia album (albeit with a track that’s a couple years old), and SOPHIE played a new collaboration with her in a recent DJ set. On her own, she put out a […]
Wilco to Release Deluxe Edition of 'Summerteeth'
Wilco will be releasing deluxe editions of their 1999 album, Summerteeth, on Nov. 6 via Rhino Records. The remastered versions of the band’s third album will come in two formats. The CD version will include a previously unreleased recording of their show at The Boulder Theatre in Colorado on Nov. 1, 1999. Aside from Summerteeth’s […]
Wilco Announce 'Summerteeth' Deluxe Reissue With Previously Unreleased Material
Wilco are releasing a deluxe reissue of their 1999 album Summerteeth, a key entry in the string of masterpieces that cemented them as one of the greatest bands in American history. The ornately poppy and darkly depressive collection is getting the elaborate treatment it deserves, with 4xCD and 5xLP versions containing lots of previously unreleased […]
Thurston Moore Shares “Siren,” New Single and Video
Sonic Youth found Thurston Moore shared his new 12-minute single, “Siren,” along with a short film of a mermaid fantasy as its accompanying visual. The song hails from Moore’s upcoming seventh solo album, By The Fire, which is out on Sept. 25. View a teaser clip of “Siren” below. By The Fire, completed in a London […]
Hundredth Announce New Synthpop Album 'Somewhere Nowhere', Share New Single "Bottle It Up": Listen
The Myrtle Beach, South Carolina trio Hundredth started out making intense melodic hardcore a decade ago. In the years since then, they’ve been doing everything in their power to evolve. On their last album, 2017’s great RARE, the band took on a pronounced shoegaze influence, marrying big melodies to vast, crashing sounds. In the singles […]
Colin Meloy – "Slint, Spiderland"
The Decemberists leader Colin Meloy has released a lovely new song called “Slint, Spiderland.” He wrote it for the Morning Edition Song Project, for which NPR is asking musicians “to capture life in the era of COVID-19 by writing an original song that describes this turbulent moment.” Meloy’s song, an acoustic ballad that reminds me […]
Touché Amoré – “I’ll Be Your Host”
Next month, the great Los Angeles post-hardcore band Touché Amoré will return with their new album Lament. The new LP is the follow-up to 2016’s Stage Four, the album where frontman Jeremy Bolm got deep and intense about watching his mother die of cancer. That album just crushes, and it’s a hard act to follow. […]
Adrianne Lenker – "anything"
Adrianne Lenker quarantine album(s) incoming! Lenker, the singer-guitarist from Big Thief, is one of those artists for whom holing up in a cabin to make a solo album while the world is on lockdown makes perfect sense. Turns out Lenker made not one but two LPs during her stint at a rented home in the […]