Last year, Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason and his new backing band, Saucerful Full of Secrets (you know, like the Pink Floyd album) hit the road in 2018 and 2019 to perform classic cuts from Floyd’s pre-Dark Side of the Moon era. The band will be releasing a set, Live at the Roundhouse, commemorating that tour — which […]
The HIRS Collective & Screaming Females' Marissa Paternoster Cover Garbage's "Sleep" & "Push It": Listen
The Philadelphia-based group known as the HIRS Collective make frantic, intense, chaotic hardcore, and they do it from a ferociously pro-queer and trans perspective. Two years ago, the band followed up a string of 7″ singles and cassettes with their debut album Friends. Lovers. Favorites. It featured guest appearances from luminaries like Against Me!’s Laura […]
The Ophelias' 'For Luck' EP Has New Songs, A Quarantine Remake, And A Joni Mitchell Cover
Cincinnati quartet the Ophelias are back today with the follow-up to their Yoni Wolf-produced 2018 debut album Almost. It’s a four-song EP called For Luck that continues to add wrinkles to the band’s artful, string-laden indie-pop sound. The tracklist contains two completely new songs, the grungy dream-pop opener “Grand Canyon” and a wistful float called […]
Vicky Cornell Corrects "Misinformation" About Statue
Vicky Cornell wants to set the record straight about reports regarding the vandalizing of the statue of her late husband, Chris Cornell. “I know the news of the vandalism was as heartbreaking to many of you as it was to our family. So I wanted to share this with you and clarify the misinformation that […]
Yo La Tengo Covers the Byrds' 'Wasn’t Born To Follow'
Following the release of an EP recorded at their New Jersey rehearsal space last month, Yo La Tengo will be unveiling another EP, Sleepless Night, in October. The Byrds’ “Wasn’t Born to Follow” is the first song to arrive from the collection. The EP features one new song, “Bleeding,” plus covers of songs by The Delmore Brothers, Bob […]
Laura Veirs – “Turquoise Walls”
This fall, the singer-songwriter Laura Veirs, Stereogum’s first-ever Artist To Watch, is coming out with My Echo, her album about her divorce from her ex-husband, the producer Tucker Martine. The album features appearances from people like Jim James, Bill Frisell, Karl Blau, and M. Ward, and we’ve already posted the early track “Burn Too Bright,” […]
Ela Minus – "el cielo no es de nadie"
Over the last couple months, the electronic artist Ela Minus has released some pretty great songs. First was “they told us it was hard, but they were wrong.” and then there was “megapunk.” Now, she’s officially announced her debut album and shared another new track. Minus’ album Acts Of Rebellion will be out in late […]
Tim Heidecker – “Nothing” (Feat. Weyes Blood)
Tim Heidecker, the actor and comedian best known as one half of Tim & Eric, has lately been using his spare time to make ’70s-style singer-songwriter records. Next month, Heidecker will release Fear Of Death, a new album that he recorded with an all-star band of contributors, including Weyes Blood’s Natalie Mering, Drew Erickson, the […]
Yo La Tengo – "Wasn't Born To Follow" (The Byrds Cover)
Last month, Yo La Tengo released a song a day for a week, culminating in an ambient instrumental EP called We Have Amnesia Sometimes. Today, the group is announcing another new EP, Sleepless Night, which will find them revisiting one of their favorite pastimes: covers. The Sleepless Night EP will feature five covers — of […]
Watch 'Weird Al' Yankovic's Ted Nugent Fire Up the Crowd in <i>Reno 911!</i> Clip
Way, way back in March — remember March? — it was reported that none other than “Weird Al” Yankovic would be playing Ted Nugent in the latest version of Reno 911! on Quibi. The episode is finally upon us. In the clip below, you can see Yankovic as Nugent, with red, white and blue regalia and all. […]