In one month, the frantic and chaotic Philadelphia punk band Soul Glo will release their new EP Songs To Yeet At The Sun, the follow-up to the hard and confrontational 2019 album The Nigga In Me Is Me. Touché Amoré frontman Jeremy Bolm is putting the new EP out on his revived Secret Voice label, […]
Buck Meek – "Second Sight"
The members of Big Thief really don’t fuck around. Last year, they released their third album as a band, U.F.O.F., a massively acclaimed level-up that they wasted no time in following up with Two Hands, an album some fans liked even more. After releasing two of the best albums of 2019, the very prolific members […]
Anderson .Paak – “Jewelz”
Since quarantine began, Anderson .Paak has stayed productive. He’s played a funk troll in Trolls World Tour. He’s appeared on tracks from Nas, Busta Rhymes, and Big Sean. And he’s released a couple of his own singles: The Juneteenth protest song “Lockdown,” the Rick Ross collab “Cut Em In.” Today, he’s shared another one. .Paak’s […]
John Cale – "Lazy Day"
John Cale is always around — just recently, in fact, he popped up on the excellent Kelly Lee Owens track “Corner Of My Sky.” He’s always working on something or another, but now it’s been a bit since he’s released a new album. (His last, 2016’s M:FANS, was a reimagining of his 1982 album Music […]
Watch Billie Eilish and Finneas Play 'No Time to Die'
After unveiling her monochorme video for “No Time to Die” last week, Billie Eilish brought a live performance of the track to The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon last night (Oct. 5). With her brother Finneas at the piano, Eilish was seated on the steps of a beautiful theater and gave a smoldering performance of […]
Future Islands – “Born In A War”
This Friday, Baltimore synth-rock dramatists Future Islands will release their new album As Long As You Are. The album comes three years after The Far Field, their last one, and after the members of the band have been devoted attention to side projects like frontman Samuel T. Herring’s pretty-great rap debut Back At The House. […]
The Antlers Drop 'Wheels Roll Home,' First New Music in Six Years
The Antlers dropped “Wheels Roll Home,” their first new music since the 2014 release of their fifth album Familiars. “Wheels Roll Home” is a simple song about the hopeful promise of reunion after a long time gone,” lead singer and songwriter Peter Silberman explained in a statement. “It’s that feeling of finding home in someone, […]
Jeff Tweedy's "Gwendolyn" Video Features A Whole Bunch Of Famous Faces — Sort Of
A couple weeks back, the ever-prolific Jeff Tweedy announced that he’d gone and made a quarantine-era album called Love Is The King. At the time, he also shared two new songs, the album’s title track and “Guess Again.” Today, he’s back with another one called “Gwendolyn.” Musically, “Gwendolyn” is a bit sweeter and rollicking than […]
The White Stripes Prep Greatest Hits Collection
The White Stripes haven’t been a band for nearly a decade, which means that a greatest-hits set is long overdue…and now finally its way. Simply titled The White Stripes Greatest Hits, the collection will be released on Dec. 4 through Jack White’s Third Man Records and Columbia. The 26-song set will feature 26 previously released songs that span’s […]
Billie Joe Armstrong to Release 'No Fun Mondays' LP
Billie Joe Armstrong really helped make quarantine a little better with his popular No Fun Mondays cover series. And today (Oct. 6), he’s announced that the 14 tracks will be collected and released in a proper album that drops next month. “While we’ve all been in quarantine I’ve been reflecting on the things that matter […]