Guess who’s back. Lil Tjay makes his triumphant return, but never forgets on his third studio album, 222. Inspired by the date of the Bronx native’s near-death experience, the True To Myself rapper recalls the shooting on “June 22” and hurdling over life’s struggles on “Project Walls” featuring NBA YoungBoy. The album’s release also comes […]
Prewn – “But I Want More”
Prewn is a project based out of Northampton, Massachusetts led by Izzy Hagerup, and next month she’s releasing her debut album, Through The Window, via Exploding In Sound Records. Today, we’re getting its lead single, “But I Want More,” the sort of raw, immediate recording that makes one sit up and take notice: Hagerup’s quivering […]
Desert Daze Cancels 2023 Festival
The psych-focused Southern California festival Desert Daze has long been regarded as one of the best live music events going, a sentiment I can affirm after attending myself last year. Unfortunately, there will be no Desert Daze in 2023. The fest just announced that it is taking a year off and will return from Oct. […]
Mark Zuckerberg Is Out Here Wakeboarding To Aesop Rock
We have evidently decided to turn complete control of our society over to semi-human tech-dork freaks who want to fight each other, and everything that we learn about these people just makes them seem even stranger. Up until now, Mark Zuckerberg has always come off as the world’s most basic bitch, and that has extended […]
Madeline Kenney – “Plain Boring Disaster”
At the end of the month, Madeline Kenney is releasing a new album, A New Reality Mind. We’ve heard “Superficial Conversation” and “I Drew A Line” from it so far, and today Kenney is back with one last single, “Plain Boring Disaster,” a brief but affecting artsy pop song. “I think it’s easy to romanticize […]
Hannah Diamond – “Affirmations”
Last we heard from PC Music progeny Hannah Diamond, she’d released “Staring At The Ceiling,” her first new single since 2019’s Reflections LP. That was in February of last year. Today, the London-based multidisciplinary artist has shared a brand-new single called “Affirmations,” and it’s produced by David Gamson. “This one particular day we were on […]
Billie Eilish – “What Was I Made For?”
It’ll still be another week before we find out whether the new Barbie movie is actually any good, but the people involved in marketing it have really managed to turn the rollout into a big media spectacle. A big part of that is the soundtrack album, an all-star affair with an actual aesthetic. We haven’t […]
LSDXOXO – “Devil’s Chariot”
In September, LSDXOXO is releasing a new EP, Delusions Of Grandeur (D.O.G.), which he introduced with “Double Tap” a couple months ago. Today, he’s back with another new single, “Devil’s Chariot,” a dreamy, locked-in one that samples “God’s Chariots,” from the French musician (and fellow Because Music affiliate) Oklou. “Devil’s Chariot is further exploration of […]
Mutual Benefit – “Little Ways”
Mutual Benefit is back. Jordan Lee will return this fall with his 2013-vintage Band To Watch’s first album in five years, Growing At The Edges. “I became interested in the unruly first signs of growth after a disaster, and the beautiful ways lives start to blur into each other through relationships,” Lee explained in a […]
Speedway – “Ascension” & “Walls Of Ire”
The Stockholm band Speedway have absolutely nailed a very specific style of raw, passionate melodic hardcore. They make total mosh music, but there are little things in their sound — a blazing guitar solo here, an ahhh-ahhhh backup harmony there — that make their records a tiny bit more immediate and accessible. If you’re into […]