Best Coast has shared a new 2020 version of their hit single, “Boyfriend.” As part of the Bandcamp Friday, Best Coast re-recorded and changed the pronouns on the 10-year-old track to make it more inclusive. “In the decade since writing this song,” Bethany Cosentino said about the song in a statement. “I have had a […]
The Staves – "Nazareth"
It’s been a while since we’ve heard from the great folk trio the Staves. In 2017, they released a collaborative album with yMusic; in 2018 they offered a Christmas song. But you’d have to go all the way back to 2015 and the group’s beloved album If I Was — one of the best that […]
The Replacements Share 'I Don’t Know' Demo From 'Pleased to Meet Me' Box Set
The Replacements have an extensive box set chronicling the Pleased to Meet Me era that arrives in October. Ahead of its release, fans can hear a newly shared demo of “I Don’t Know.” As you can hear below on the self-mocking track, the lo-fi, garage-y, bare-bones 1986 version (which was recorded at Minneapolis’ Blackberry Way Studios) of the […]
Inara George – "Sex In Cars" (Feat. Dave Grohl)
Inara George and Dave Grohl have crossed paths plenty over the years. Grohl joined the Bird And The Bee, George’s duo with producer Greg Kurstin, a couple times over back when they were promoting their Van Halen covers LP. George sang on “Dirty Water,” one of the breezier moments on Foo Fighters’ 2017 release Concrete […]
Courtney Barnett – “Just For You” (Kev Carmody Cover)
Courtney Barnett has shared an acoustic cover of Indigenous Australian singer-songwriter Kev Carmody’ “Just For You.” As NME reports, her cover is part of an upcoming expanded reissue of the 2007 Carmody tribute album Cannot Buy My Soul, featuring new tracks from Jimmy Barnes, Kasey Chambers, Kate Miller-Heidke, Alice Skye, Electric Fields, and more. “I’ve […]
Lingua Ignota – “Wicked Game” (Chris Isaak Cover)
Chris Isaak’s haunted 1989 sex-jam “Wicked Game” must be one of the most-covered songs ever recorded. Over the years, virtually anyone with any interest in Lynchian romanticism has tried out “Wicked Game,” to the point where it’s almost a cliché. In recent years, we’ve run an essay about all those “Wicked Game” covers, and we’ve […]
Foo Fighters Cancel 25th Anniversary Van Tour
To what should come as no surprise to anyone, Foo Fighters have canceled their Van tour that was supposed to Dave Grohl and company on the same route as their first tour from 1995. And yes, it’s canceled due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. Foo Fighters were slated to launch the tour in April in […]
Bonny Light Horseman – "Greenland Fishery"
It’s been just over a year since Bonny Light Horseman debuted with an eponymous single. Since then the supergroup — featuring Hadestown creator Anaïs Mitchell, Fruit Bats’ Eric D. Johnson, and Josh Kaufman (who is also in Muzz with members of Interpol and the Walkmen and is therefore becoming the king of indie-rock supergroups) — […]
Hear Christian Lee Huston Cover Sum 41, Blink-182, & Kid Cudi
LA singer-songwriter Christian Lee Hutson released his Phoebe Bridgers-produced album Beginners at the end of May, and today he’s back with a covers EP called The Version Suicides. The project finds Hutson covering three songs that originally sounded nothing like his signature pensive folk-pop: Sum 41’s rap-adjacent mall-punk classic “Fat Lip,” Kid Cudi’s early MGMT […]
Midnight Oil Share "Gadigal Land," First New Song In 17 Years: Listen
The Australian rock band Midnight Oil got together way the hell back in 1972. In the ’80s and early ’90s, they became an international creative force, and they did it without easing up on their strident anti-colonialist politics. (It remains wild that Midnight Oil had a massive international hit with the 1987 single “Beds Are […]