Wallows are encouraging fans to get ready to vote by offering a download of the unreleased song “Bad Remake” as part of their “Are You Registered Yet?” campaign with the HeadCount organization. The tune is the final never-before-heard track from Wallows’ Nothing Happens sessions, and is only available today (Sept. 22) for National Voter Registration […]
Weyes Blood & Tim Heidecker – “Oh How We Drift Away”
Later this week, the actor and comedian Tim Heidecker will release his new album Fear Of Death. Heidecker has been making vaguely satirical singer-songwriter music for a while now, and Fear Of Death seems like a more sincere embrace of the form. He recorded the album with a backing band that includes Drew Erickson, the […]
Yo La Tengo – "Bleeding"
Indie rock living legends Yo La Tengo have been mighty productive this year despite living on lockdown, or maybe because of it. Back in July they started dropping one formless improvisational track per day for a week, which turned out to be a new EP called We Have Amnesia Sometimes. A couple weeks later they […]
Metz – "Blind Youth Industrial Park"
Metz are releasing a new album, Atlas Vending, in a couple of weeks. The Toronto hardcore band have shared two tracks from it so far, the 8-minute drone “A Boat To Drown In” and “Hail Taxi,” which made our best songs of the week list. And today they’re back with another one, “Blind Youth Industrial […]
Listen to the New Fleet Foxes LP 'Shore'
Yesterday, Fleet Foxes announced they’d be releasing a new album today (Sept. 22) to coincide with the autumnal equinox. True to their word, that album, Shore, is out now. A 55-minute film of the same name, directed by Kersti Jan Werdal, is also out. The album was recorded between September 2018 through this month, but it […]
Nick Cave Offers Coping Strategies to Conquer Fear in Latest 'Red Hand Files' Entry
Nick Cave, who shares his highly personal songs with the world — and sometimes life tragedies, including the death of his son in 2015 — says he finds freedom from fear by disengaging from the outcome of his actions. In the latest Red Hand Files entry, the singer says he agrees with Nina Simone’s assertion […]
Lydia Loveless – “September” (Feat. Laura Jane Grace)
Later this week, the Ohio country-rock great Lydia Loveless will release her new album Daughter on her own label Honey, You’re Gonna Be Late. Thus far, Loveless has already shared the early singles “Wringer” and “Love Is Not Enough.” Today, she’s dropped the final song before the album itself arrives. It’s a good one. “September” […]
Stream Fleet Foxes' New Album 'Shore'
Every now and then there’s a moment of brightness, an actual good thing, that alleviates the darkness of the wretched year that is 2020. This is one of those good things. Just days after news of its existence crept out, there’s a new Fleet Foxes album out in the world. It’s called Shore, and it […]
Sylvan Esso – "Free"
Sylvan Esso’s upcoming third album is called Free Love mainly because of “Free,” a deeply beautiful new ballad they’ve released today ahead of the project’s release this Friday. Even more so than recent single “Frequency,” the electronics that usually undergird Amelia Meath’s songwriting are stripped back here. The arrangement is little more than some trembling, […]
Tune-Yards – “nowhere, man”
Two years ago, Tune-Yards were busy. In 2018, the wild, ecstatic indie rock duo came out with the album i can feel you creep into my private life, and they also scored the great Boots Riley film Sorry To Bother You. The duo hasn’t exactly been silent since then. Earlier this year, for instance, frontwoman […]