Last year, Slow Pulp impressed us with their ability to take the aesthetics and moods of shoegaze and bring it into a poppier songwriting mold. We named them a Band To Watch, and their EP Big Day was one of the best of the year. So it was exciting news when, last month, they announced […]
The Goodbye Party – "Unlucky Stars"
Michael Cantor’s power-pop project the Goodbye Party hasn’t released an album since 2014’s Silver Blues, but today the Philadelphia-based musician is announcing a new full-length called Beautiful Motors, which will be out on Double Double Whammy in a couple months. It features contributions by a number of notables from the Philly scene: Yowler’s Maryn Jones, […]
Eels – “Baby Let’s Make It Real”
Mark Oliver Everett has now been making music with his sharp, personal studio-pop project Eels for a quarter century. Two years ago, Everett came out with the album The Deconstruction, his first in four years. Today, with no prior warning, Eels have come out with a new single called “Baby Let’s Make It Real,” and […]
Jeff Tweedy's New Book Will Teach You How to Write a Song
Wilco singer/songwriter Jeff Tweedy will release How to Write One Song, billed as a “candid and fascinating primer on the art form he knows best,” on Oct. 13 on Dutton. The new book, which follows up his 2019 memoir, Let’s Go (So We Can Get Back), promises to reveal the “the behind-the-scenes process, and the […]
Throwing Muses – “Frosting”
Throwing Muses come from the same great ’80s Boston alt-rock scene that produced Pixies, and founding member Tanya Donelly, who has her own new album coming out this week, went on to the Breeders and Belly. But Throwing Muses have never really stopped, though they’ve had periods of hiatus. And next month, Throwing Muses are […]
Erasure – "Nerves Of Steel"
Back in June, the great synth-pop duo Erasure announced a new album called The Neon. The name seemed strikingly appropriate for any ’80s synth-pop act, but especially here: Their 18th album finds Vince Clarke building up many of the songs from his oldest synths, and the songs we’ve heard so far have had a bit […]
TRAAMS – “The Greyhound”
It’s been nearly five years since the urgent and ambitious UK indie rock trio TRAAMS released their sophomore LP Modern Dancing. Today, they have returned in a big way. The band has released a vast, epic new song called “The Greyhound,” their first in the years since that last album came out. “The Greyhound” is […]
Helena Deland – "Someone New"
Helena Deland already has a good bit of music to her name, having released a four-part EP series back in 2018. But we’ve still been waiting on her official full-length debut — and now it appears that wait’s about to end. Last month, she released the song “Lylz,” which seemed to be the harbinger of […]
Sylvan Esso – “Rooftop Dancing”
Next month, Sylvan Esso, the North Carolina electro-folk duo of Mountain Man’s Amelia Meath and Megafaun’s Nick Sanborn, will follow up 2017’s What Now with their new album Free Love. They’ve already shared two new songs, both of which have music videos attached: The intro track “What If” and the proper first single “Ferris Wheel.” […]
Sen Morimoto – "Deep Down" (Feat. AAAMYYY)
Last month, the Chicago artist Sen Morimoto announced his sophomore album, due out in October, with the excellent single “Woof.” Since then, he’s made headlines for having a performance pulled from a virtual livestream sponsored by the city of Chicago after he criticized mayor Lori Lightfoot’s response to the city’s protests in his pre-recorded performance. […]