As the 2000s became the 2010s, no artist looked more poised to transform the landscape wholesale than Mathangi Arulpragasam, whom most millennials know as M.I.A. A brilliant Sri Lankan musician, political disruptor, and cultural synthesizer from London, she made music almost entirely about being exiled by birthright, about her complicated relationship with societal upheaval having […]
Full Of Hell + HEALTH = "Full Of HEALTH"
Both Full Of Hell and HEALTH love to collaborate with other artists. The former has paired up with the Body and been a part of Sightless Pit and the latter has put out singles with Soccer Mommy, Youth Code, JPEGMAFIA, and many, many more throughout the years, most recently with a Xiu Xiu collab back […]
Angel Du$t Surprise-Release New EP 'Lil House': Stream
Angel Du$t are one of the more curious, fascinating bands out there. Lead singer Justice Tripp is best-known as the frontman for Baltimore bruisers Trapped Under Ice, one of the most influential hardcore bands of the past decade and a half. Three other Angel Du$t members also play in fellow Baltimore hardcore wreckers Turnstile. But […]
Cults – “Trials”
Erstwhile blog-indie darlings Cults returned last month with “Spit You Out,” their first new single in years. And today, they’re officially announcing a new album called Host, the follow-up to 2017’s Offering (and 2018’s full-length cover of the Motels’ self-titled debut). Host was written more collaboratively between Madline Follin and Brian Oblivion than ever before […]
Troye Sivan – "Easy"
A couple months ago, Australian pop singer Troye Sivan released a new single, “Take Yourself Home,” his first new track since his Boy Erased song with Jónsi, and today he’s announcing a new EP called IN A DREAM, his first project since 2018’s full-length Bloom. Here’s how he described the new EP: “A story that’s […]
Kanye West Drops Presidential Bid (Report)
We hardly knew Ye. Kanye West’s presidential bid is over before it started. According to a report in Intelligencer, West hired a get out the vote specialist to try to whip up 100,000 signatures to get him on the ballot in Florida and South Carolina. Steve Kramer, the specialist, said they were “working over the weekend […]
Whitney Announce Their Covers Album With A Take On The Roches' Classic "Hammond Song"
Back in May, the gently sighing Chicago retro rockers Whitney released a pair of excellent cover songs, renditions of John Denver’s soft ’70s folk-rock hit “Take Me Home, Country Roads” (with Waxahatchee in tow!) and SWV’s ’90s R&B jam “Rain.” Turns out those are part of a whole album of covers the band is releasing […]
Mary Lattimore – "Sometimes He's In My Dreams"
A new Mary Lattimore album sounds like a pretty great idea right about now and, lo and behold, the Los Angeles harpist has just announced a new full-length called Silver Ladders, which was produced by Slowdive’s Neil Halstead. “A friend introduced us because she knew how big of a fan I was and Neil and […]
Yo La Tengo Release Third Song in As Many Days
Yo La Tengo has done it again. The indie veterans have shared their third song in as many days, releasing “James gets up and watches mourning birds with Abraham (Wednesday)” on…Wednesday. The tune follows “James and Ira demonstrate mysticism and some confusion holds (Monday),” “Georgia thinks it’s probably okay (Tuesday)” which were released on Monday and […]
Land Of Talk – "Now You Want To Live In The Light"
At the end of the month, Land Of Talk’s Elizabeth Powell will finally release her new album, Indistinct Conversations, the follow-up to 2017’s Life After Youth. Due to its pandemic-induced delay, we’ve heard a good chunk of singles from it — “Weight Of That Weekend,” “Compelled,” “Diaphanous,” and “Footnotes” — and today we’re getting another […]