Joni Mitchell is opening her vault for the first time with the Joni Mitchell Archives, a new series of box sets to be released over the course of the next few years. Each one will be a deep dive into a different era of her career with a wealth of unreleased material, and naturally, the […]
Shame – "Alphabet"
Back in the beginning of 2018, the British post-punk group Shame released their debut album Songs Of Praise. They soon accrued a fervent following and a whole lot of attention for their intense live shows. They’ve also now been silent for a while, not releasing so much as a standalone single since Songs Of Praise. […]
Phoebe Bridgers Takes 'Tiny Desk' to the Oval Office
Ever wonder what it would look like to have a female president in the White House? Well, Phoebe Bridgers gave us a great idea with her performance on NPR’s Tiny Desk At-Home concert. Bridgers swapped her iconic skeleton onesie for a suit and played her set positioned in front of the iconic Resolute desk. Meanwhile, […]
Elvis Costello – “Hey Clockface / How Can You Face Me Now?”
A month before the pandemic hit and turned the world upside down, Elvis Costello went to Helsinki and recorded several songs, playing all of the instruments himself. Over the past few months, he’s shared “No Flag,” “Hetty O’Hara Confidential,” and “We Are All Cowards Now.” And now we know that they’re all part of a […]
The Staves – "Trying"
A lot of people don’t realize that the Staves’ If I Was deserves to be spoken of with the same breathless reverence reserved for 2015 classics like Art Angels and To Pimp A Butterfly, but it’s true. The Staveley-Taylor sisters could have retired from music at that point knowing that they’d given the world something […]
Stream Portland Bedroom-Pop Duo Fox Academy's Deeply Moody New Album 'rabbit'
Michael Todd Berland and Christian Novelli have been releasing music together as Fox Academy for about a decade now, crafting drowsy and adventurous indie rock that will probably appeal to fans of American Pleasure Club, Alex G, Strange Ranger, Oso Oso, and artists of that ilk. Their particular spin on bedroom pop is a bit […]
Tom Petty's Estate Shares Previously Unreleased Song 'Confusion Wheel'
“Confusion Wheel,” the first previously unreleased Tom Petty song off the late artist’s upcoming Wildflowers & All the Rest box set, dropped today (Sept. 1o). All the Rest, a title chosen by Petty, is the unreleased half of his Wildflowers album. It arrives Oct. 16 via Warner Records under the full title of Wildflowers & All the Rest. The box set was […]
War On Women Announce New Album 'Wonderful Hell', Share Title Track: Listen
Two years ago, the Baltimore band War On Women released their album Capture The Flag, a searing and politically righteous record of metallic punk bangers. That album felt ferociously urgent at the time, and it hasn’t lost any of its intensity since then. So it’s great to see the news that War On Women are […]
Tom Petty – “Confusion Wheel”
When he was working on his great 1994 solo album Wildflowers, Tom Petty recorded a whole lot of extra songs. He used some of them on his soundtrack to the Ed Burns movie She’s The One a couple of years later, but many of those songs have gone unreleased. That’s about to change. Next month, […]
Califone – "Crazy As A Loon" (John Prine Cover)
After dropping their first proper album in seven years, Echo Mine, this past winter, the experimental roots-rock cult favorites Califone returned with a cover of Elliott Smith’s “Needle In The Hay” as an Amazon exclusive. Today they’re sharing some great news about that cover: It’s now available at all DSPs, paired with another excellent Califone […]