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 […]
Buck Meek – "Roll Back Your Clocks"
Big Thief guitarist Buck Meek put out his self-titled debut album in 2018. Since then, Big Thief has had their big year and Meek is back to making some stuff of his own, recording a track that he wrote during coronavirus lockdown called “Rock Back Your Clocks.” It’s pretty and plaintive, produced by Andrew Sarlo […]
Holy Motors – "Country Church"
Back in 2018, the Estonian band Holy Motors released their debut album Slow Sundown. It was a mesmerizing collection — equal parts gorgeous and perplexing. That had something to do with the fact that, despite being all the way from Estonia, Holy Motors’ sound was a sort of mythic, hazy, dream-Americana. The kind of music […]
Tkay Maidza – "Don't Call Again" (Feat. Kari Faux)
Australian rapper and singer Tkay Maidza announced her signing to venerable US indie label 4AD two months ago with the casually excellent club-rap banger “Shook.” Today she shares a new song and details on her first EP for her new label home. Next month Maidza will release an eight-song collection called Last Year Was Weird, […]
L.A. Witch Releases Eerie New Single 'Gen-Z'
Garage rock trio L.A. Witch is back today with their latest single, “Gen-Z,” which appropriately sounds like it was recorded right in their neighbor’s empty garage or hashed out in a local cave. The reverb-heavy track is the second single off their August record, Play With Fire, and finds Ellie English, Irita Pai and Sade Sanchez […]